Jason Duggar Is Engaged to Female friend Maddie Grace
Jason Duggar, one in all Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar's 19 teenagers, is engaged to Maddie Grace, months after he made their relationship public.
The Duggar family is growing all but again.
Jason Duggar, the 12th eldest of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar's 19 teenagers, is engaged to female friend Maddie Grace.
The Counting On important person proposed to his fiancée on a beach, where a crimson rose and candle stamp bearing the phrases “Will you marry me?” turned into house up on the sand. In the center of the installation, the 24-year-frail bought down on one knee and presented Maddie with a hoop.
“On 8/24, Jase requested me to marry him,” she wrote on Instagram Aug. 30 in a put up furthermore shared on Jason's page, “and I could perhaps per chance now not be extra inflamed!!”
The bride-to-be, who has already taken on the final name Duggar on her social media profile, included the hashtag #spring2025 within the put up.
The couple's engagement shoot photographer, Kayla Johnson, shared extra pics from the proposal on her beget page.
“Congratulations to Jason & Maddie!” she wrote. “These two seriously bear the sweetest relationship I’ve ever considered.”
Kayla persevered, “Jase is basically the most intentional, kind human and Maddie suits that vitality completely. She in actuality is basically the most dazzling ball of gentle in any room. I couldn’t factor in a cuter duo, and I’m in a position to now not wait to sight them formally change into one!! What a pleasure it is a long way to sight God pause one thing dazzling between two folks.”
The couple got a slew of effectively-desires in accordance with the couple's engagement announcement. Jason's cousin Amy Duggar King wrote on the comments, “Congratulations Jason!”
Jason had made his relationship with Maddie Instagram dependable in unhurried Could, sharing pics of the two embracing and strolling on the beach. On the time, the 19 Young folks and Counting alum did now not name her by name.
Jason is one in all the final of the grownup-age Duggar teenagers to fetch engaged. His proposal to Maddie took region nine days after they each attended his sister Jana Duggar's wedding to Stephen Wissmann within the Duggar family's native Arkansas.
Read on to search out out extra in regards to the Duggar family…
The folks of 19 and grandparents of over three dozen little ones started off as high college sweethearts.
Michelle has recalled being “saved” at 15. Then, one night, Jim Bob turned into making home outreach visits on behalf of his Baptist church and he ended up knocking on the Ruark family's door after his friend told him that “this girl from college that honest appropriate bought saved and is a cheerleader” lived there.
They invited Michelle to Sunday college at their church and, Jim Bob acknowledged, he prayed to god that they would presumably be each different's spiritual leaders—even though it seems their first meeting wasn't as memorable for Michelle. A year later, she utilized for a job on the frozen yogurt store owned by Jim Bob's folks. “You bought right here to the counter where I turned into standing by the cash register and presented your self,” Michelle remembered in a letter posted on the family weblog in 2017 for Jim Bob's birthday and their 33rd wedding anniversary. “You had been vexed but very sweet! I in actuality don't be conscious a lot about that dialog, excluding that you just finally mustered up the braveness to quiz me if I would experience to your junior-senior ceremonial dinner with you!”
She attended the dinner with him at Shiloh Christian, but it turned into after they frolicked in a while discussing the Bible for hours at her folks' home that she knew.”From there, we predict about our hearts had been knit collectively,” Michelle has acknowledged. “We graduated high college in Could of 1984 and had been married in July. I turned into 17 and Jim Bob turned into 19.”
The couple devoted themselves to God and each different for the future.
Jim Bob is a worn whisper legislator, having served within the Arkansas Apartment of Representatives for the sixth district from 1999 unless 2002, all wherein he turned into vice chair of the Apartment of Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee. A urge for U.S. Senate in 2002 ended within the principle, as did a characterize in 2006 to vary into the Republican nominee for Arkansas Direct Senate District 35.
He and Michelle, who are each licensed realtors, bear been active in conservative causes—an component of their life-style that won them and 19 Young folks and Counting (which premiered in 2008 as 17 Young folks and Counting) each fierce supporters and fierce critics. A robocall Michelle recorded in 2014 encouraging folks to vote against a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance in Fayetteville—in which she acknowledged she turned into calling to “sigh” them of the so-called dangers of organising it ethical for transgender males and females to make use of the companies they feel most receive and most ecstatic in—impressed a Commerce.org petition nerve-racking TLC waste their show.
The city council authorized the ordinance.
Eldest Duggar little one Josh turned into born March 3, 1988. He too turned into a conservative activist, campaigning for the Family Research Council.
He stepped down after frail police recordsdata surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting several girls, including his sisters Jessa and Jill, when he turned into a teen. Jessa defended her brother in a sit down-down with Fox Info that June, insisting that the worst names folks had been calling Josh had been “so overboard and a lie, in actuality. I mean folks fetch inflamed at me for announcing that, but I’m in a position to claim this on memoir of I turned into one in all the victims.”
His vital other furthermore stuck by him, including after he admitted to being untrue. When he checked right into a remedy center in 2016, his folks called it “a in point of fact grand first step in convalescing and healing.”Fogeys of three—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013)—when the scandal broke, Anna gave delivery to their fourth little one, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the same day TLC canceled 19 Young folks. Their fifth little one, son Mason Garett, turned into born Sept. 12, 2017, daughter Maryella Hope arrived Nov. 27, 2019 and little one No. 7, Madyson Lily, turned into born Oct. 23, 2021.
In a federal indictment filed in April 2021, Josh turned into charged with a count apiece of receipt and possession of little one pornography. He pleaded now not responsible on each counts. In 2022, Josh turned into chanced on responsible on each counts, and sentenced to 12 and a half of years in prison.
Almost at the moment after Josh turned into born, Michelle bought pregnant all but again, but suffered a miscarriage. Whereas she and Jim Bob had been silent grieving that loss and praying for steering, they found out out that twins had been on the formula.
“We felt it turned into a double blessing,” she told Desire to Know. “God turned into encouraging our hearts. We're silent learning. It's in actuality so uncommon, on memoir of I breastfeed my infants, but my teenagers are so discontinuance collectively. I in actuality bear a little of one and then eight months later I'm ready for. Ethical but any other uncommon thing the Lord has considered match to pause with our situation.”
John-David and his sister Jana had been born on Jan. 12, 1990.
After a whirlwind courtship (they did “know of each different” for several years, even though, ahead of meeting at a church tournament in Abbie's home whisper of Oklahoma) and a short engagement, John-David and Abbie bought married on Nov. 3, 2018. They welcomed daughter Grace Annette Duggar on Jan. 7, 2020 and son Charlie Duggar in September 2022.
Jana Duggar (m. Stephen Wissmann)
On their thirtieth birthday in January 2020, John-David's twin confessed in a sweet message to him, “Ever since John and I had been little we've been requested if we bear that 'twin thing'. You perceive, the thing where you would possibly perhaps presumably be feeling what different one is feeling or know what different one is pondering…Properly, John, I've step by step answered that with a no—but now I’m in a position to if fact be told shriek that the day little Gracie turned into born I felt every bit of happiness that you just presumably did, so I guess it want to be trusty!”
Jana persevered, “It's so sweet looking out at you & Abbie as folks! You're naturals! And the same qualities which bear made you a improbable brother will furthermore create you an improbable dad.”
And whereas Jana watched 11 of her 18 brothers and sisters fetch married ahead of she chanced on adore with Stephen Wissmann—who sister Hannah Wissmann is married to the worn TLC important person's brother Jeremiah—she believes it's all fragment of God's conception.
“I haven't step by step understood what the simpler describe is, but I do know that God is conscious of what is finest for all of us. And so for me, it's getting married later,” Jana told Folks in August 2024, at the moment ahead of her wedding. “Every of our studies will doubtless be written in but any other blueprint. If we had been your whole precise same, it would possibly perhaps perhaps perhaps even be a urge of the mill lifestyles.”
Jill turned into born on Could 17, 1991. In a adore epic harking abet to her folks', Jill first met Derick (who grew up about forty five minutes away) on Christmas 2011 when he stopped by the Duggar family home whereas out caroling with his church neighborhood.
Jim Bob conducted matchmaker, and Jill and Derick take to each other, growing nearer over electronic mail and Skype. Father and daughter went to visit Derick in Nepal that November and Jill and Derick persevered to tumble for every different. In February 2014, Derick requested Jim Bob for his daughter's hand in marriage, and they also tied the knot on June 21, 2014. They’re folks to three sons—Israel, born on April 6, 2015, Samuel, born July 8, 2017, and Frederick, born July 7, 2022.
In April 2024, Jill shared that she had suffered a being pregnant loss whereas ready for her and Derick's first little one girl.
The couple starred on 19 Young folks and Counting and later, Counting On. Derick turned into fired from the show in 2017 after making homophobic remarks about fellow TLC actuality important person, Jazzy Jennings.
Jill and Derick mirrored on the controversies and non secular beliefs surrounding her family within the Amazon Prime Video documentary Like a flash-witted Delighted Folks: Duggar Family Secrets and techniques, which premiered in June 2023.
Jim Bob and Michelle's fifth little one turned into born Nov. 4, 1992.
Jessa met Ben thru church and he began dating her in 2013—the frail-long-established solution to romance coming as a designate-sleek idea to a mode of viewers. The teens by no formula talked about their romances pre-engagement, so Jim Bob explained to Folks, “Courting is getting to know each different in a neighborhood atmosphere, each households spending time collectively and the couple atmosphere targets collectively to search out out within the occasion that they are supposed to marry. With relationship, a couple will most regularly pair off on my own and that most regularly ends in a extra bodily relationship.”
Ben requested for Jessa's hand and then proposed in August 2014—sealing the deal by holding her hand for the principle time. They married on Nov. 1, 2014. Jessa turned into pregnant with their first little one when 19 Young folks and Counting turned into canceled and TLC subsequently aired a different about sexual abuse, that contains Jill and Jessa, to extra educate viewers on the topic. The sisters would stop up the celebrities of their beget show, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, that iciness; the show then developed to vary into Counting On, that contains different Duggar siblings as effectively.
Meanwhile, Jessa and Ben welcomed son Spurgeon on Nov. 5, 2015, son Henry on Feb. 6, 2017, daughter Ivy Jane on Could 28, 2019 and daughter Fern in July 2021. In February 2023, Jessa shared that she suffered a miscarriage over the 2022 holiday season. She gave delivery to her fifth little one, George, in December 2023.
The sixth Duggar little one turned into born Dec. 21, 1993.
Jinger and Jeremy met doing ministry work in Laredo, Texas, and started dating in 2016. They married on Nov. 5, 2016 (the bride's nephew Spurgeon's birthday—but you honest appropriate are attempting now not overlapping milestones when you happen to're one in all 19), and had been promptly the topic of being pregnant rumors.
“The attach we sight ourselves in a year would possibly perhaps per chance presumably be honest appropriate settled down, silent doing ministry right here in Laredo, and honest appropriate hunting for to aid the Lord, on the opposite hand, we’ll have the option to,” Jinger acknowledged on a June 2017 episode of Counting On.
Their daughter Felicity turned into born July 19, 2018. In Could of that year, they printed that Jinger turned into pregnant all but again—and that she had suffered a miscarriage the earlier tumble. In November 2020, they welcomed daughter Evangeline Jo.
Joseph Duggar (m. Kendra Caldwell)
No. 7 turned into born on Jan. 20, 1995. Taking honest appropriate thing in regards to the romantic atmosphere, Joseph proposed to Kendra (whom he met thru church) at his sister Pleasure-Anna's wedding in Could 2017 after honest appropriate a number of months of dating.
“I turned into positively apprehensive going into it, but I wasn't vexed that she turned into going to claim no, on memoir of she has acknowledged, 'I'm honest appropriate ready on you!'” Joseph told Folks after popping the demand. Added Kendra, “I'm so blissful and so scared. There's so many phrases I would like to claim, but honest appropriate scared.”
They've since welcomed three teenagers, son Garrett, born June 2018, daughter Addison, born November 2019, daughter Brooklyn, born February 2019, and son Justus born Could 2023.
Eighth in line, Josiah turned into born on Aug. 28, 1996.
Ethical a number of months after his courtship with Lauren went public, the couple presented their engagement in March 2018. “The region where I proposed to Lauren is the particular region where her folks had been engaged,” he acknowledged in an announcement. “There's lots of family history on this property making it a different region for Lauren.”
Her future spouse’s mother, Michelle, acknowledged in a video posted on the family's weblog, “We like Lauren, she is the kind of treasured girl.” Jessa and Ben furthermore offered congratulations, and chocolate fashioned like x's and o's. “Gleaming certain that y'all would like to keep your first kiss to your wedding day, but when you come over right here we'll give you…” She held up the sweet consolation prize.
A earlier courtship with Marjorie Jackson didn't work out and they also went their separate ways within the summer of 2015. “Marjorie and I had a ethical time collectively,” Josiah recalled to Folks in March 2016. “We had been honest appropriate making an attempt to follow God's lead on every part. She didn't feel that it turned into the finest timing then, so we called it quits for a little.”
He and Lauren tied the knot June 30, 2018, telling Folks their wedding day turned into “fully finest.” They welcomed daughter Bella Milagro on Nov. 8, 2019—the name translating to “miracle little one,” after the couple printed Lauren had suffered a miscarriage in October 2018. They welcomed but any other daughter, Daisy, in 2022, and a son named Ezra in Could 2023.
The ninth Duggar sibling turned into born Oct. 28, 1997.
She knew Austin for 15 years as a chum ahead of he started dating her—after which they didn't raze any time. He proposed in February 2017 and they also married on Could 26, 2017, at Immoral Church in Rogers, Ark. (the wedding where Joseph proposed to Kendra!). They welcomed son Gideon Martin Forsyth on Feb. 23, 2018.
In 2019, Pleasure-Anna suffered a being pregnant loss with a little of one girl at 20 weeks alongside.
On Aug. 21, 2020, the couple welcomed daughter Evelyn Mae Forsyth.
The couple's third little one, son Gunner James Forsyth, turned into born on Could 17, 2023.
Jim Bob and Michelle's 2nd house of twins had been born on Dec. 30, 1998.
It turned into reported in February 2017 that Jed turned into interning at his dad's frail stomping grounds on the whisper capitol, working for the Arkansas Apartment of Consultant—and at 21 he's on the pollrunning for Direct Consultant for District 89, committed to “putting Springdale's conservative values first.” He married Katey Nakatsu after Twelve months of dating in April 2021. They’re folks to son Truett, born Could 2022, and daughter Nora Kate, born June 2023.
Jeremiah, a licensed flight trainer, is married to Hannah Wissmann and the two are folks to daughter Brynley, born December 2022, and Brielle, born February 2024.
Jason Duggar
Duggar little one No. 12 turned into born on April 21, 2000.
In January 2017, the Daily Mail reported that Jim Bob helped Jase aquire a $33,000 fixer-upper in Prairie Grove, Ark., about Half-hour a long way from the Duggar family homestead, and he ended up initiating his beget construction firm. Nonetheless clearly he wasn't too busy to abet Jed with his campaign.
He went Instagram dependable with female friend Maddie Grace in Could 2024 and the two bought engaged in August 2024.
Charmed No. 13, James arrived on July 7, 2001.
On his nineteenth birthday in 2019, his mother wrote, “He’s the 'funcle' (enjoyable uncle!) and your whole younger boys round right here peep as a lot as him and would like to be honest appropriate like him! James is in a position to pause honest appropriate about anything else he thinks up. At the same time as a little of one, we’d gain James 'fixing' various household home equipment. He has step by step been one to rob things apart, work out how they work, and put them abet collectively—with a number of special changes!
“This year James worked laborious to fetch his CDL, and he has change into an educated at using your whole mammoth trucks and heavy equipment! We can't wait to sight what God has in store for him one day!”
No. 14 arrived on Nov. 15, 2002.
And from the division of growing up so rapid…
Justin went public with female friend Claire in September 2020. The two bought engaged the following November and on Feb. 26, 2021, they married.
Right here with his mammoth sister Jill, Jim Bob and Michelle's 15th little one turned into born Could 23, 2004.
On his 16th birthday, mother Michelle praised Jackson's sense of humor and noted that she knew he couldn't wait to fetch his driver's license.
Duggar little one No. 16 turned into born Oct. 11, 2005.
“This girl is so enjoyable and outgoing, and he or she loves making sleek chums,” Michelle wrote on Johannah's 15th birthday in 2020. “Her younger sisters fully like her and ponder she hung the moon, and I couldn't be extra grateful to God for picking me to be her Mom!”
No. 17 arrived on Aug. 2, 2007. Abet when it turned into honest appropriate 17 Young folks and Counting, Jenni turned into the little one in all the family.
Now, OMG, she's a teen.
“Jennifer is dependable, trusty… and enjoyable!” Michelle wrote when her little girl turned into 13. “She is a popular with the nieces and nephews and is on the whole carrying one in all them round on memoir of they don't select her to connect them down! Jennifer furthermore has a different adore for animals and is terribly dedicated to save her pets on day-after-day foundation! She recently helped elevate a litter of seven little bunnies!”
Right here on the finest, the penultimate Duggar little one turned into born Dec. 18, 2008.
In 2019, her mother called Jordyn-Grace an “outgoing girl who has by no formula met a stranger,” with a chuckle that “is step by step one in all the brightest spots in our day.”
Lucky No. 19, right here holding niece Meredith, turned into born on Dec. 10, 2009—three months untimely and weighing handiest 1 pound, 6 ounces. Josie spent six months within the neonatal intensive care unit but is fortunately doing gigantic now.
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