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I Cried When My Childhood Buddies Wore Pants


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Jinger Duggar wears pants as of late. However she didn’t all the time.

Whereas discussing the outrageous household guidelines that made her household well-known (whereas distracting from worse issues), it is just pure that pants-wearing would come up.

Jinger was so closely indoctrinated by her cult’s guidelines on “modesty” that she couldn’t perceive when a few of her buddies wore pants as a substitute of dishevelled skirts.

The truth is, she remembers a time when she wept over it.

I Cried When My Childhood Buddies Wore Pants
On her podcast, Jinger Duggar recalled how her mother and father raised her and her many siblings with an inventory of strict guidelines that didn’t make as a lot sense as she as soon as believed. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)

Jinger Duggar wept when her shut childhood buddies wore pants

Throughout the Wednesday, April 16 episode of The Jeremy & Jinger Podcast, Jinger Duggar delved into her beliefs about pants, skirts, and “modesty.”

Inside the fundamentalist purity tradition of the cult during which she grew up,

Although there was some exaggeration for the cameras when the notorious household was on TLC, the sexist restrictions on girls and women had been nonetheless very actual.

Joy-Anna Duggar, Jinger Duggar, and Jeremy Vuolo in 2025.Joy-Anna Duggar, Jinger Duggar, and Jeremy Vuolo in 2025.
Indicating that they recorded this podcast episode earlier than its April 16 air date, a nonetheless pregnant Jinger Duggar chats with Jeremy Vuolo and Pleasure-Anna Duggar in regards to the outlandish variations that made her household well-known. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)

So, Jinger recalled in the course of the latest podcast episode, when a few of her buddies started to put on pants, it got here as a shock.

“I keep in mind when a pair shut buddies began sporting pants and I used to be so broken-hearted over it,” she admitted.

“I keep in mind crying over one good friend simply considering, ‘Why are they doing that?’” Jinger confessed.

She added that, looking back, she reacted this fashion: “With out even asking or listening to them out as to why.”

Over time, her perspective started to vary

“You form of begin to not assume twice about it,” Jinger defined.

That’s, you don’t rethink your place “till you might be surrounded with different people who find themselves conducting their lives in another way.”

Jinger added: “After which that’s one thing the place you begin to assume extra about, ‘OK, why do I do what I do?’”

Joy-Anna Duggar on an April 16 2025 episode of her sister's podcast.Joy-Anna Duggar on an April 16 2025 episode of her sister's podcast.
Like her sister (and podcast host), Pleasure-Anna had her personal journey of discovering which cult guidelines didn’t make sense to her as an grownup. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)

That is the place Pleasure-Anna Duggar chimed in.

Pleasure talked about that she began sporting pants two years in the past, and reached the same conclusion to her sister’s.

“To me, it was a giant deal when any individual that all the time wore skirts began sporting pants,” she recalled.

Pleasure continued: “Then I used to be like, ‘Oh, properly they know higher.’ That was my perspective behind it.”

Jinger Duggar speaks into a mic while wearing a beige plaid shirt.Jinger Duggar speaks into a mic while wearing a beige plaid shirt.
Jinger Duggar speaks on her podcast in January 2025, talking about her TLC fame. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)

What broke the cultist mindset for them?

Greater than as soon as, Duggar daughters have pointed to re-reading of biblical passages to clarify why they now not maintain to IBLP guidelines that dominated their childhoods.

Nevertheless, from their very own phrases, it appears like one thing slightly extra natural: whenever you’re remoted and surrounded by people who find themselves identical to you, every thing else can appear slightly scary.

If you meet different individuals on this planet, variations cease being so scary.

A visibly pregnant Jinger Duggar cups her baby bump with one hand while gesturing with the other on her podcast.A visibly pregnant Jinger Duggar cups her baby bump with one hand while gesturing with the other on her podcast.
Gesturing as she explains one thing on her podcast, Jinger Duggar is visibly pregnant. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)

That’s the identical phenomenon that has some mother and father satisfied that faculty “indoctrinate” their grownup youngsters.

The truth, in fact, is that assembly individuals with totally different beliefs, life, and backgrounds is eye-opening — and leads individuals to reexamine their very own beliefs, biases, and habits.

And, generally, they find yourself sporting a pair of denims.

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