Jinger Duggar spent more than a decade in front of the reality TV cameras and now, five years after Counting On ended, she doesn’t seem eager to go back.
Duggar, 31, and her husband Jeremy Vuolo talked about the possibility of a reality return on the January 22 episode of “The Jinger and Jeremy Podcast.” The 19 Kids and Counting alum thought about it, but admitted she wouldn’t be able to recapture the nostalgia of the past.
“I don’t know. I don’t think so,” she said. “Not right now. Not in this season of life.”
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She qualified that by saying that if she were to do another reality show, it wouldn’t be “following every aspect of life,” as Vuolo, 37, put it. Duggar added, however, that she does miss “some aspects” of reality TV.
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“For all those years you have the sweet memories of traveling and stuff, but it’s not all the same,” she said. “Because you wouldn’t have your same film crew, you wouldn’t have your same people you’re working with. And you’re not filming as a larger family unit so there’s lots of things that would feel so drastically different if you did a show again.”
The sixth of 19 Duggar kids in the TLC reality franchise, Jinger first rose to fame in 2008 when the show, then called 17 Kids and Counting, premiered. She later appeared in the spinoff series, Counting On, which ran from 2015 to 2020.
Now, she and Vuolo share two kids with a third due in March. Vuolo, a former professional soccer player, is now a minister. The couple cowrote a memoir titled, The Hope We Hold: Finding Peace in the Promises of God, in 2021 and appear content in having closed the reality TV chapter of their lives.
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Vuolo compared it to the end of his soccer career. Though he competed in MLS for the New York Red Bulls and then in the now-defunct NASL, he stepped away in 2014 to focus on ministry.
“It was a chapter,” he said. “It closed and I went, ‘Yeah that’s done. The Lord’s led me in a different direction.’”
He empathized with Duggar’s sentiment about it “not being the same,” adding that it’s good to have a “healthy break” from one chapter to the next.
“Otherwise, you’re constantly living in the past,” he said. “And if there’s too much nostalgia, it can lead to this depression because you’re thinking, ‘Man, I’ll never get that back,’ or ‘I’ll never have this opportunity again.’”
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