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Thursday, June 1, 2017
Joy-Anna Duggar: It"s Baby-Making Time!
First came love for Joy-Anna Duggar and Austin Forsyth.
Then, on May 26, came marriage for the couple, who tied the knot in front of family members and close friends after several days of chatter over just when these nuptials would take place.
So… now comes a baby in a baby carriage. Right?!?
Pretty much, yes.
So Joy-Anna says herself.
“We love kids and we’re excited to have a family,” Duggar tells People Magazine, not saying for certain that she and Austin are already trying for a baby, but stating:
“We’re just going to see what the Lord does.”
In other words:
We’re going to have a lot of unprotected sex and see what happens!
(Which, some might say, is really leaving it in science’s hands. But whatever.)
Joy-Anna, of course, comes from a very large family.
Like, a VERY large family. An enormous family. The family with the most children to ever be granted their own show on TLC.
Will Duggar and Forsyth follow suit? Will Joy-Anna ever go more than a few months over the next decade without being pregnant?
“We want as many as the Lord thinks we can handle and we are putting it into his hands,” she told People when asked this question.
The now-husband and wife met through church and told this same publication last week that they were “happy and excited” to be married.
“Leading up, it was so surreal until I was walking down the aisle and then I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s actually here,"” Joy-Anna added shortly afterward.
“We are going to be traveling for our honeymoon for awhile.”
Ah yes, about that honeymoon:
No one seems quite sure just where Joy-Anna and Austin are at the moment, as they do a number on each other’s naked bodies in an attempt to make a baby.
“I think the honeymoon is going to be really, really special, just getting to spend that time together,” Jessa Seewald said in a video posted online this week.
She continued:’
“I don’t even know where they’re going, honestly, but I know it’s going to be exciting.”
We agree! Lots of raw sex often is!
(Sorry, Jim Bob and Michelle. But you know it’s true.)
Added Jessa in her message to the newlyweds:
“Getting to travel together, make memories together, take lots of pictures and document your travels and your journeys. This is the beginning of your life together.”
Jeremy Vuolo also chimed in via his own video message, telling Duggar and Forsyth:
“This is an incredible journey you’re beginning. We wish you all the best. We’ll be praying for you and enjoy yourselves!”
Joy-Anna and Austin were friends for 15 years before dating for three months and then getting engaged.
Their wedding took place in Arkansas, but it was not without controversy.
First, Joseph Duggar proposed to Kendra Caldwell at the reception, an act that has stirred up a great deal of backlash for sort of obvious reasons.
It was Joy-Anna’s big day. It was her special occasion. And Joseph just swooped in and stole some of her thunder.
Prior to the ceremony, meanwhile, Jana Duggar took a walk in the woods.
But she didn’t do so alone, as 12 smaller humans accompanied the woman who is charged with staying home and tutoring a gaggle of her young relatives everyday.
Michelle Duggar captioned the following photo:
“Jana decided it was time to get out of the house for an afternoon hike and she had plenty who wanted to go with her!”
To many Internet users, Jana Duggar’s wedding selfie was just another example of the unfortunate life the family’s eldest daughter leads.
She has no privacy. She is constantly forced to care for children, even when trying to take a few relaxing moments to herself.
“Is this poor girl ever NOT on kid duty?” one person asked, while another shared the same sentiment, writing:
“Can’t they just leave Jana alone sometimes or do they have to be with the poor girl everywhere she goes?”
It’s unclear.
But this much is not: we wish the very best to Joy-Anna and Austin!
A new season of Counting On, featuring Joy-Anna and Austin’s wedding in the premiere, returns June 12 on TLC.
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Troian Bellisario: NO ONE Understood My Eating Disorder!
Troian Bellisario has a film coming out, so she’s making the usual rounds — which means that we all get to read interviews from this very intelligent actress.
She actually wrote Feed in addition to starring in it, probably because she’s amazing. Her costar is Tom Felton, either because he’s talented or because he’s every Millennial’s fantasy costar — you decide.
He’s kind of been everywhere lately, from the first season of Murder In The First to the latest season of The Flash. It sounds like his role in Feed is kind of a weird one, because it sounds like kind of a weird movie.
Not as weird as the 2005 film of the same name, which was about cannibalism and forced-feeding … though that kind of brings us to the upsetting subject brought up during Troian’s interview.
Troian’s spoken about her battle with an eating disorder in the past, but now she’s sharing something new about it.
“There was this emptiness in me that I wanted to, not fill, but engage,” she tells Interview of how her eating disorder fueled her early drive to act.
“I felt like there was a story in me that hadn’t been told, and it was a very personal story.”
Unfortunately, eating disorders are complex to experience and almost impossible to explain to people who have never had them.
“I couldn’t get anyone — even the people who loved me the most, even my boyfriend or my mother or my father — to understand what that experience was truly like for me.”
She must have felt so isolated by that — which, even after the fact, can be damaging.
“It was about my eating disorder, and I found that there were so many people who thought that it was about losing weight or being skinny.”
A lot of people, even in this day and age, think of eating disorders as just, like, extreme dieting. Eating disorders come in a variety of forms with their own pernicious quirks, but none of them are healthy and none of them are really about bikini season.
“I couldn’t quite get them to understand that it was about control on a very, very literal level.”
That struggle still informs her passion for storytelling, as an actress and as a writer. Sometimes you gotta take your experiences and use them as fuel.
Good for her for speaking out about it.
Don’t get us wrong — somebody’s eating disorder is nobody’s business but their own. But when you speak out about it, especially when you have a platform like Troian does, you can help change people’s lives.
Maybe someone reads her interview and seeks help for themselves. Or maybe just someone understands what a loved one went through.
Pretty Little Liars dealt with eating disorders as early as the first season, which is all that we watched, because that season alone was enough to take over our lives and literally haunt our dreams.
It was good but it was just … so much. Also, we binged it in a week.
But Ashley Benson’s character was, at one point during that season, blackmailed into wolfing down a set of cupcakes. Which might sound like the opposite of a problem, but her character had an eating disorder and it was a problem.
In real life, eating disorders can have devastating consequences.
People die. Some of them are teenagers, and some of them are young adults.
Some of them aren’t even teens yet — there are tweens and younger who battle with issues of control and self-image. This can be because of parental pressure or just a response to major life stresses.
It’s so not the same as skipping a meal every now and then because you’re busy or because you want to fit into a certain outfit.
Troian, of course, is doing so much better these days. Troian’s slender beauty may always be the case — body frames are determined more by genetics than anything else.
Eating disorders can be a special challenge for celebrities.
Special, if not necessarily worse. Celebrities can face more body-shaming than other people, because of course they do.
That means magazines, photographers, directors, and social media.
On the other hand, celebrities tend to have the resources to seek help. Not everybody does.
It’s always the worst on isolated young people who don’t even know where to turn or how to describe what they’re experiencing.
But look at her now — writing feature films and also starring in them, like a boss.
Feed sounds kind of weird from what we’ve read, and it might have some sort of twincesty vibe. But weird movies can be the best.
And it sounds super interesting.
Writers draw from their own experiences to tell stories, and that can manifest in ways that you wouldn’t expect.
You can bet that the unhealthy obsessions in Feed were in some way informed by Troian’s own experiences. Even if she never had a, like, psychic twin connection followed by a tragic death.
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