EXCLUSIVE: Jinger Duggar Vuolo OPENS UP About Her Family & Raising Children

Kirk Cameron is joined by Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo to discuss Jinger’s transition from reality television to private life, becoming parents and living out obedient faith and not performance. Don’t miss this digital exclusive from Takeaways with Kirk Cameron on TBN!

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Just wanting to stay rooted in the word of god, as our as our guidepost, for not only our lives, but there as well.
I think looking back now, I can see how it was such a sweet time, all those years on TV, but it was like, was just living out my life.
Hey, I’m Kirk Cameron.
Thanks for joining us for a special digital exclusive with Ginger duggar Volo and her husband, Jeremy.
Thanks you guys for joining us.
Thanks for having us, Kirk.
I’ll be here.
Yeah. Now, ginger, you grew up on TV with such a big family.
And, I I kinda grew up on TV with a little family.
But I was playing a character that was not myself. I was playing Mike Seever.
But what was it like for all of those years to not have people scripting lines for you, but you’re just living your life in a fishbowl being yourself.
It’s interesting. Yeah, just like you’ve said, it’s it’s interesting because I felt like in a sense, I would kind of step into this character, even though it wasn’t.
It was my life, but I think the guardedness that I started to realize, like, once you’re in that public space, I started to realize, like, I I was like, who is ginger?
You know? I didn’t know — In my character.
—
because, yeah, my life was so public for so many years. Yeah. It was interesting.
I think looking back now, I can see how it was such a sweet time, all those years on TV, but it was like I was just living out my life.
From the age of 10, if I was, like, upset 1 of my siblings all the way up until 27.
So was it just normal for cameras to be there?
Because I would, I would think to myself, like, Once all the cameras went away, did you have, like, the family meeting or, like, whew.
Okay. Now,
alright, guys, let’s huddle up and because tomorrow shoots coming again, or was it no.
They were there and you were just living life.
They were they were just there for the most part.
I think as the years went on the later years of the show, they had to like find stuff for us to do, but it wasn’t scripted.
So it would be like, oh, you know, you’re gonna go to dinner tonight.
You’re gonna go on a date night. You’ll go mini golfing or this person’s gonna go skydiving.
So it’s things like that, but not scripted.
What kind of a of an effect did you see the reality TV lifestyle have on your brothers and sisters.
It’s interesting. I’d have to let them speak for themselves on that.
But I think, I felt like our lives were we tried to keep it as much, like, okay, this is TV, but this is kind of also like what we’re doing And we didn’t fight a lot growing up anyways, as siblings.
And so
We’ll sit to 19 kids and
also I think my parents were like, you just can’t do that. We just can’t handle that. So just don’t.
That’s right.
The whole
the whole thing’s gonna hurt. But, like, you know, some of them would have those those times, but it wasn’t like, crazy.
So I think what people saw on TV was the reality for, like, especially those younger years.
Yeah. That was just That was just your family.
I remember being there 1 time for a birthday party, and there were hundreds of people there.
Then they were like, and because everybody was homeschooled or whatever, it was like, you had like, 14 kids playing the the violin and like 10 kids playing the piano.
I’ll bezos with the guitars. Yeah. It was amazing.
Full band.
And nobody was fighting. And I noticed that. There there wasn’t these bratty screaming little kids.
Everybody was like, I’m saying, wow. Crazy. What are they putting in the brownies here?
This is like everybody’s so well behaved and chill. What was it like?
Once the show end was that a transition for you?
Like no longer having cameras, no longer being in the public eye? Was it weird to just be ginger?
That felt that definitely felt strange because I I imagine, like, well, you’ve continued with your public side of things, but whenever you’re kind of on, I think that was where I felt most comfortable in a sense was in front of the camera.
So when that ended, I couldn’t imagine myself going and getting a job at some you know, fast food restaurant.
Like that would that would not make sense to me where I was comfortable was just kind of doing this with a camera there acting like they’re not there.
That was pretty much all I knew from a kid.
So when it ended, I was grateful that it ended because I was kind of like, okay, I feel like this is a good time for us to think about, like, what we wanna for our family, for our kids, which we’ve chosen privacy for them now.
But it was kind of a good pause because I had to just say, okay, yeah, who is ginger?
I don’t know. Yeah. Where where do I wanna go in life now?
So Jeremy, when when you met ginger, and you’ve and you realize that she’s part of the 19 and counting and this whole big thing.
Was that weird for you?
Where where you sort of like, I’m not sure I want to enter into this world.
Yeah. I I, adapted to her pretty quick. Just understanding, you know, her life.
I don’t think as we thought about our relationship moving forward really had TV, much in our in our plans.
And in fact, the first year we were married, we kinda just did the bare minimum of what, I guess, was required.
But, yeah, we I I was just in love with her, wanted to, start life with her, and and the cameras leave them or or take them, really weren’t much of an issue.
I mean, it’s definitely interesting when you go on a date and they say, okay.
You know, talk and you’ve got You’re
gonna get
10 guys. Take people around you.
You did. This was like, I wanna be alone with with my girl.
Yeah. So so you get you have to get used to that. But but it wasn’t bad.
And and what was it like gaining 18 brothers and sisters,
like, overnight? Well, I thought it would be tough for me to get their names down.
He did really good.
It really helps
with the other days.
Yeah. It does. It does. I I was struck by how unique they each are.
And so it was cool getting to know the siblings, and really, really sweet, sweet guys and girls.
So, yeah, I I enjoyed getting all these new brothers and sisters.
And now that you’re together and you’re starting your own family, and you come from such a different background, you don’t have such a huge family, and it wasn’t the ultra conservative, community that ginger came from.
What’s that been like trying to blend these 2 worlds together?
Yeah. I think as our world has blended together and we’ve started a family, I think it’s been pretty natural.
We’re we’re in California, which is away from both of our families.
Okay. So that’s tough. That’s good. That’s good for kids to move away, I think.
Well, that whole leaving and cleaving thing.
It’s actually healthy, it’s a healthy good thing.
I think as our kids get older, there’s like, okay, we’ve been away for like 6, you know, 7 years.
And so you think about that.
It’s like maybe eventually it would be nice to have some family close by with our littles.
Yeah. We miss them relationally. It has made us dependent more on each other, which for the starting years of our, which in area held
this also.
And then they get to visit often. So that’s good. So the the adjustment hasn’t been too hard.
But but life together has been good.
Now, how many kids do you guys have?
We have 2 girls. We have 2 girls.
4 and 2 little princesses.
Yes.
It makes me miss those days when my kids are little so Chelsea and I have 6, 3 boys and 3 girls, and now they’re 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, and married, and moved out, and It goes by so fast.
That’s what we’re told.
It’s so sweet.
They’re a lot of work. They they keep us on our toes, but we know it’s gonna pass quickly.
Now, Ginger, we’ve talked a little bit about how you’ve sort of, disentangled some some of what your true faith is from the things that you were taught, And, you come from a different background, Jeremy.
So is it been interesting as you now are looking at what you’re gonna teach your kids to sort of blend like are you realizing there’s even more things that I just sort of assumed we would do now that it’s it’s like real time happening with what you’re telling your kids?
Yeah. I think the adjustment for anyone when they become a parent, you have to start thinking more intentionally, now that you’re raising little people.
And so that that has spurred some really good conversations for me and ginger.
Just, what are we gonna emphasize in their life?
What are we gonna really promote what direction are we gonna encourage them to go in, whether it’s, their faith or, or career or education?
Yeah, we’ve had those conversations and we know those those days are coming quick where some of those big decisions will be made.
But really, ginger expressed it so well in her book.
Just wanting to stay rooted in the word of god, as our as our guidepost, for not only our lives, but for theirs as well.
Man, it’s that’s so good. That’s what I have found has always been my north star is the truth of god’s word.
Yeah. Some people have asked, you know, with everybody just falling away from the faith, deconstructing, or falling off of a moral cliff, you you don’t seem to have done that.
And, I I remind them I am an actor. I could be faking the whole thing.
But, they say, what is it that’s helped you the most?
And to me, it’s like, it’s the fear of the lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, and that comes through understanding the word of God.
And, it’s always been what’s shown me the way to blessing.
And that’s what I’m sure you’re telling your kids, and and we’ve shared with ours is that if we choose to sin, we choose to suffer.
The path of obedience is the path of blessing, and it’s a it’s a life of faith. Not of performance.
Yes.
Yeah. And something we’ve talked about a lot is wanting to model for our children in the home a joy in our walk with the lord.
Yeah. A love for Christ. Kids will hear what you teach them, but oftentimes the greater impact is what they see in your life.
Yeah. Amen. And so ginger and I just wanting to model in our home what, a love for Jesus looks like in our life with a pleasant home and, and 1 that’s attractive to them.
Yeah.
Yeah. They love to play and follow the leader. Yeah. Right? It’s just like built in and you’re the leaders.
Mhmm.
We’re the leaders as parents. And, a pastor once said to me, be a portrait of what you of the intended goal.
Try to be the kind of person that you want your children to become because more is caught than taught.
Look and they go, oh, well, that’s what dad did, or that’s what mom did.
And that often is, that’s what I think of.
I think of all the, great sermons that I have heard, and I can’t remember hardly 1 line of any of those sermons, but I know the man that preached the sermon, and I say, I wanna be like that person.
You know?
Yes. A pastor recently told me a really good line.
He said your theology will out itself in the atmosphere of your home.
And so what you believe will will reveal itself in how you behave.
Yeah. What’s on the inside is gonna show up on the outside eventually. Mhmm.
Man, well, you you guys just seem like an awesome couple and just perfect for each other.
And I’m so glad you took time to to talk with me today, and I can’t wait for everybody to read your book.
Thank you so much. Thanks for having us.
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