The Unexpected and Dramatic Reason Jinger Duggar Kept Her Pregnancy a Secret from James, Shocking the Entire Family

Counting On: Jinger Duggar Shares When She Told Her Family About Her Pregnancy

In her latest podcast episode, Jinger shared some stories about how she told her family about her pregnancy. According to the Counting On alum, some family members who learned about her pregnancy were her sisters and Michelle. They were hanging out in a hot tub when she told them she couldn’t hop in because she had a baby in her tummy.

Everybody was shocked by what Jinger said and later celebrated. Jinger also revealed that she was about eight or nine weeks pregnant when she started sharing the news with both her and Jeremy’s families. “I think we told my family and then most of your family around eight or nine weeks, just because it’s not often that they’re out here,” she said. But what caught the attention of many was how James was left out of the huge news.

Jinger Shares Why She Didn’t Tell James About Her Pregnancy

During the same podcast, Jinger said that her brother was the last person to know about her pregnancy. According to the Counting On alum, she felt so bad about forgetting to tell her brother because she thought everybody knew already. “I was just casually talking about the pregnancy, and he was like, ‘What? You’re pregnant?’” she recalled before saying, “I was like, ‘James, I can’t believe I didn’t tell you!”