Joy Anna Duggar. Courtesy of Joy Anna Duggar/Instagram
19 Kids and Counting alum Joy-Anna Duggar is making headlines for her clothing choice in a new social media vlog.
In a video shared via Instagram on Saturday, November 25, Duggar, 27, chronicled her morning routine with her three kids. (Duggar and her husband, Austin Forsyth, welcomed son Gideon in 2018, daughter Evelyn in 2020 and son Gunner in 2023.)
As she got her children ready for the day, Duggar switched from her lounge-wear to a pair of black shorts. She later filmed herself working out in the gym while rocking the shorts and a loose T-shirt.
Traditionally, the females in the Duggar family have worn clothing that covered their legs. Their TLC show, 19 Kids and Counting, offered viewers a glimpse into the family’s conservative values — including the dress code. Joy-Anna’s sister Jinger Duggar got candid about the clothing rules in her 2021 memoir, The Hope We Hold.
“My mom had always dressed us girls in skirts and dresses, a standard that was taken from Deuteronomy 22:5, which says, ‘A woman shall not wear a man’s garment,’” she wrote at the time. “Modesty was a huge topic in our house, and we believed that wearing skirts instead of pants was a central part of being modest. But I wanted to discover for myself what the Bible had to say.”
This hasn’t been the first time that Joy-Anna has strayed from her family’s conservative rules. In October, she attempted to dye her hair while hanging at home with friend Gabrielle Patton.
Courtesy of Joy-Anna Duggar/Instagram (2) Joy-Anna Duggar isn’t going to be opening up an at-home hair studio anytime soon. On Monday, October 22, Duggar, 27, posted an Instagram video of her friend, Gabrielle Patton, coloring her hair in the sink. “I cannot believe we’re doing this. We’re going all in. Do the roots first,” Duggar […]
“I’m probably going to go through regret then I’m going to love it or I’m going to hate it and then I’m going to go get it fixed,” Joy-Anna explained in the Instagram video at the time. “You only live once, right? Might as well just do it. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while.”
After setting a timer for 20 minutes, the pair washed off the dye — and uncovered a hair color that was darker than Joy-Anna had wanted. “It’s dark,” Joy-Anna cried.
Prior to the video, the four eldest Duggar sisters revealed in the 2014 book Growing Up Duggar that the girls were prohibited from cutting or dyeing their hair.
Several of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 19 kids have strayed from their conservative family’s rules through the years. Jim Bob and Michelle raised their children in a devout Baptist home, following strict guidelines that included dressing modestly and “courting” future spouses while accompanied by a chaperone on romantic outings. Since many of the Counting […]
“Our hairstyle is our choice, and we choose longer hair based on our understanding of 1 Corinthians 11:4-15,” an excerpt from the book read. “While it is a shame for a man to have long hair, a woman’s hair is her glory.”
Joy-Anna has been candid about her decision to distance herself from the Institute in Basic Life Principles church following her marriage to Forsyth in 2017.
“We’d always talk about when we were dating that we weren’t gonna use their literature and stuff like that … Just kinda distanced ourselves,” she shared in a September 2023 YouTube video, adding that they choose to follow Jesus “alone” now.
