Counting On’s Jed Duggar Marries Katey Nakatsu After One Yr of Courtship

Jim Bob and Michelle’s eldest baby, Josh, was born on March 3, 1988. After being home-schooled (because the Duggars would do with all of their children) he too turned a conservative activist, campaigning for the Household Council. He stepped down after outdated police data surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting a number of women, together with his sisters Jessa and Jill, when he was a teen.

Jessa fervently caught up for her brother in a sit-down with Fox Information in June 2015, insisting that the worst names folks have been calling Josh have been “so overboard and a lie, actually. I imply folks get mad at me for saying that, however I can say this as a result of I used to be one of many victims.”

His spouse additionally caught by him, together with after he admitted to being untrue. When he checked right into a remedy middle in 2016, his dad and mom known as it “a vital first step in recovering and therapeutic.”

They have been dad and mom of three youngsters—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013)—when the scandal broke, and Anna gave beginning to their fourth baby, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the identical day TLC formally canceled 19 Youngsters. Their fifth baby, son Mason Garett, was born Sept. 12, 2017, and their youngest, daughter Maryella Hope, arrived Nov. 27, 2019.

Anna, who appeared on Counting On with out her husband, marked their 12th anniversary on Sept. 26, writing on Instagram, “12 years in the past right now we mentioned, ‘I do!’ I am so grateful fo