Jinger Duggar Says Her Daughters ‘Forget Half the Names’ of Their Cousins: ‘There’s Just So Many’

Jinger Duggar is getting candid about how her and husband Jeremy Vuolo’s daughters navigate life with a big family.

Duggar, 31, explained on the Wednesday, January 1, episode of their “Jinger & Jeremy Podcast” that they recently went to brunch with “a ton of the family.” Duggar gushed that it was “so sweet” for her and Vuolo’s daughters — Felicity, 6, and Evangeline, 4 — to “get that time with their cousins because they really really love them.”

“They forget half of the names and I feel like half the cousins forget each other’s names too — not each other’s names — the older, like, the aunts and uncles,” she said. “There’s just so many to remember.”

Duggar and Vuolo recalled their eldest daughter being confused about the members of their extended family. Duggar explained that the couple’s friend Christian Paul made an announcement about having a baby, which Felicity said she wanted to watch on his social media.

“So she watched it a couple times and then she said, ‘OK Mom, now who is Christian Paul to me? He’s one of my uncles, right? Is he one of my uncles?’” Duggar recalled.

Duggar called the interaction “so funny,” adding that it’s “so confusing” to know who is part of the family when there are “so many people around.”

“It’s hard to know who your aunts and uncles are when your mom’s a part of a large family,” she said. “And then with the 19 siblings, then you have the in-laws as well and then all the nieces and nephews. It’s hard to tell who’s related, and then we have friends who feel like family, but they aren’t technically family.”

Jinger is the sixth child of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, who rose to fame when starring on 19 Kids and Counting. The show ran for 15 seasons before going off air in 2015. (Jinger and some of her siblings were later featured on the spinoff Counting On, which was canceled in 2021.)

Jinger tied the knot with Vuolo in 2016. The couple announced in October 2024 that Jinger is pregnant with their third baby after previously suffering a miscarriage.

“I think a lot of people tell sooner … [but] there were a couple different things that came into play,” Jinger said on an episode of their podcast. “I mean, I had a miscarriage between the girls. That was just at six and a half weeks or so. And so I kind of wanted to wait until the second trimester to make an announcement.”

As they gear up to welcome their third child, the pair noted that they are looking forward to the sex reveal. “With this one, we know the gender because we did a blood test already,” Jinger said. “Which is just really crazy. How we found out, we’ll have to show you guys later, because it was actually really awesome.”