Joy-Anna & Jinger Duggar Spill On Jana Duggar's WEDDING
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00:00Jana and Stephen's wedding was a lot of fun.
00:02It was so much fun.
00:04Joy Anna Duggar and Ginger Duggar
00:06are opening up about celebrating their oldest sister,
00:08Jana, Say I Do.
00:09The sisters joined forces for a wide-ranging Q&A
00:12on the latest episode of the Ginger and Jeremy podcast,
00:15where they opened up about their family and more.
00:17They talked about everyone getting together in Arkansas
00:19back in August for Jana's wedding to Stephen Wissman
00:21and how the big day was attended by so many loved ones.
00:24The wedding was small in our minds.
00:27It was small.
00:28How many was it?
00:28500?
00:30But it was like for Duggar, you know, weddings.
00:33And then she also married into a large family.
00:36So even with just our two families coming together,
00:38there were a lot of people,
00:40but she kept it more intimate.
00:42And so it felt like you were able to get around,
00:44talk to people, our closest friends were there
00:47from like who we grew up with, you know,
00:49and it was such a sweet time.
00:52So I feel like whenever you have those moments
00:54where everybody's back together, it's super special.
00:58And then you have like your old friends, the crew,
01:01all these people, I don't know.
01:02There was something really sweet
01:03about Jana and Stephen's wedding that I just, I loved.
01:08With such a big family,
01:09it's rare to get everyone together in one place.
01:12Ginger lives in Los Angeles
01:13and she described just how much of a frenzy it can be,
01:15reconnecting with everyone when she's back in her hometown.
01:18I will take those days, however many days it is,
01:22and just go meet up with as many people as I possibly can.
01:27And I usually leave that time so exhausted,
01:31like so excited that I was able to have that time,
01:34but also completely wiped.
01:35Jeremy just knows to expect it
01:37because there's so much energy, motion, all these things,
01:42because we're going nonstop.
01:44Because living away, I don't get to see a lot of them.
01:49Ginger went on to explain
01:50how even if she has the better half of a week in Arkansas,
01:53that time can hardly feel enough.
01:54If you're there for five days,
01:56that seems like a lot of time.
01:57Yeah.
01:58But when you have 19 siblings
01:59and then you have the in-laws with that,
02:02like their spouse, and then you said 39 grandkids,
02:08I struggle to remember all the names of the grandkids.
02:11Oh, yes.
02:12I have most of them down, but there are just a couple.
02:15And the newer ones, they're more added all the time.
02:19So I feel that pressure and like,
02:22it's not, no one else is putting it on me.
02:24Juliana only lives 35 minutes away
02:26from her family members in Arkansas,
02:28but even for her, staying connected and up to date
02:30with every family member can be just as challenging.
02:33It's definitely hard to keep up with all the siblings
02:35because I was telling somebody,
02:37somebody asked me the same question.
02:38I was like, if we had one sibling over a week,
02:42it would take 19 weeks to get through everybody.
02:46Yeah.
02:47Like, that's a lot of time that goes by.
02:49And anyway, so I feel like we connect.
02:54I think we naturally connect with some more than others.
02:57And whether it's, we go to church together,
03:00we'll see them or whatever.
03:02And then some of us just,
03:04I'm really close to a couple of the sister-in-laws.
03:06So we see each other quite a bit working out together.
03:09Juliana says that she's currently found a balance
03:11by having different siblings over a few times a year.
03:14Honestly, it's probably once every six months
03:16we'll have one of the siblings to our house.
03:18Like we'll rotate.
03:19So every six months we'll have whatever,
03:21Joe and Kendra over, or we'll have another sibling over,
03:24or we'll go to their house to hang out.
03:26And so it is definitely hard.
03:28Cause all of us are,
03:29we all have our own friend groups.
03:32And you're seeing them at like church,
03:34you'll see like, or you'll go out to lunch after church.
03:36Birthday parties,
03:37like we'll see each other randomly here and there,
03:40but it's not like we all hang out all the time.
03:43While family dynamics have evolved over the years,
03:45Juliana and Ginger have gotten even closer.
03:47Even while being thousands of miles apart.
03:49Ginger explained why this chapter of life
03:51has allowed them to connect more deeply.
03:53Even though we live further away than we did,
03:56you know, in our same bedroom.
03:59Yes.
04:00I'm just like 10 feet away.
04:02I'm just saying.
04:03It's different because when you walk through life
04:05and you're in the same season of life.
04:07Yes.
04:08There is a sweetness and there are also trials.
04:11You walk through the same trials
04:13and like growing up in the same family,
04:16it just kind of,
04:18there are things that you are experiencing
04:22that you can talk about with your sister.
04:24And I feel like we also don't,
04:28we don't have as many like,
04:30I don't know how to say it, walls up.
04:31Like we're more chill and we're more real
04:34about what we're walking through
04:36than we ever have been.
04:38And that's what's really cool.
04:40Juliana had the same perspective on it
04:42and shared that motherhood really helped bring them closer.
04:44We really haven't connected, connected
04:46until since having kids really.
04:48Yeah.
04:49And then even then,
04:52I feel like we both had,
04:55I have a very similar testimony to you
04:58of having my walls up
04:59and I felt like I had to have it all together.
05:02And I feel like in the last three years,
05:05I've really learned that we all have problems
05:08and we all have struggles and we're all a mess.
05:13And, you know, motherhood is hard.
05:16And I feel like you've learned that.
05:18And just to be real with people.
05:20And I feel like for both of us,
05:21it's helped us in our relationship,
05:23just to be honest and open.
05:24Juliana also spoke about Ginger's book,
05:26Becoming Free Indeed,
05:28my story of disentangling faith from fear
05:30and shared how it helped her better understand
05:32the ways in which her faith and personal beliefs
05:34diverge from the teachings of her upbringing.
05:36I think there was a lot of questions
05:37from the teachings that we grew up in
05:40that you broke down,
05:42that I had never thought through that in depth.
05:44Because I knew I didn't believe it,
05:45but I never had studied,
05:47oh, well, what parts do I not believe?
05:49What parts were based, you know,
05:51or what parts had good things?
05:53Because you don't throw everything out.
05:55You're not gonna throw Jesus out.
05:56You're not gonna throw, you know, your faith out.
05:59But what parts do you not believe?
06:01And like you said, the untangling,
06:02I really liked that.
06:03Yeah.
06:05And so for me, I think I did a lot of that.
06:08And that really helped me work through the specifics of,
06:12oh, I need to work through these things.
06:13It helped prompt a lot of questions
06:14that prompt a lot of studying
06:16and just conversation between Austin and I.
06:19Austin is Juliana's husband,
06:20and he's close with Ginger's husband, Jeremy.
06:23Though their sense of humor can sometimes make it seem
06:25like that's not the case.
06:26Jeremy and Austin, everybody always thinks
06:28that they hate each other for some reason online.
06:31No, not everybody. Austin.
06:31No, I'm kidding.
06:32Not everybody.
06:33Some people don't get their humor.
06:35It's because they're both really funny in their own way.
06:39Extremely sarcastic.
06:40And then they'll say things,
06:42and then they won't clarify that it's a joke.
06:44Yes.
06:45And we have to say, eventually, they're joking.
06:48No, you don't have to say,
06:49but you feel compelled to say, yeah.
06:50Ginger feels like she has to say,
06:51she has to say they're joking.
06:52At this point,
06:53You don't anymore.
06:54I used to constantly,
06:56Ginger, this is something you need to learn.
06:57No, I'm kidding.
06:58But I used to constantly, Austin would say something,
07:02and I would come behind him and be like,
07:03guys, really, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
07:05Damage control, damage control.
07:06And now I'm just like, whatever.
07:08I don't, I'm too busy for that.
07:10If they don't get it, it's fine.
07:12Joanna and Ginger also shared their goals
07:14for the upcoming year,
07:15and both are focused on family.
07:17We are hoping to buy some land this year
07:20and build a house.
07:21So that's like a huge goal for us.
07:25And then as far as that,
07:28I mean, we just want to be consistent
07:30with the kids and ministry.
07:32So there's, I think that's pretty much all of our big goals.
07:35I love it.
07:36Big goals for me, have this baby.
07:40That's a big goal.
07:40That's what I thought you were going to say,
07:41is have a baby.
07:42Oh my word, have the baby,
07:44and then figure out what to do after that.
07:47Ginger is currently expecting a baby boy,
07:49and she shared the mindset she has
07:50going into this new chapter.
07:52I think a goal for me is honestly not to pressure myself
07:56to have to do everything by the book
07:59or as other people may assume it should be done.
08:03Yes.
08:04In those newborn stages.
08:07And just to figure out what works for us in that season.
08:10So I don't get back to that place
08:11where I just feel like so overwhelmed
08:13or like the fears of postpartum depression,
08:16all that come around.
08:18And I just don't want that to circulate again.
08:21So I think just setting realistic goals for myself,
08:24okay, if that comes back up, it's okay.
08:26I don't have to nurse as long as I did with the girls
08:29or like change things up.
08:31So being okay with change,
08:32I think is something that I'm trying to prepare myself for.