The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby
Jinger Duggar: Family Secrets, People Pleasing & Fleeing Stalkers
Wed, 15 Jan 2025
Jinger Duggar Vuolo and her husband Jeremy share their journey of breaking free from IBLP, finding balance as parents while keeping their kids off social media, and navigating life under constant public scrutiny. Jinger opens up about her disordered eating, the pressure to people please, and the symbolic freedom of learning to swim as an adult. This episode is sponsored by Nutrafol, Lume, RocketMoney & Orgain. Nutrafol: Visit https://nutrafol.com and enter promo code UNPLANNED for $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping! Lume: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get 15% off with promo code UNPLANNED at https://LumeDeodorant.com! #lumepod RocketMoney: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to https://RocketMoney.com/unplanned. Orgain: For 30% off your order, head to https://Orgain.com/UNPLANNED and use code UNPLANNED. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What were Jinger's early experiences with people pleasing?
Growing up in the teachings of Bill Gothard, we are supposed to keep our husbands happy and just doing whatever they want us to do. It was terrifying for me to be able to speak up against that.
How do you call all of your siblings and your parents every week? Is there a calendar schedule? There's no way. But you'd have to call two to three people a day. Oh my word. It's so true. Every day.
My thought process was constantly about food. I had friends who naturally were like super skinny. And I would look at these girls and I kept thinking, well, I'm just not pretty enough.
Do you guys have a plan for the birthday?
My birth plan is literally to go in and have the baby. I just don't like to plan a lot of things.
Close up of the unplanned sign. Oh, unplanned. Duh. We sat down with Ginger Duggar and Jeremy Volo, who revealed the shocking truths behind Ginger's new book, People Pleaser. Imagine being relentlessly stalked by paparazzi as an adult after growing up in the public eye. Ginger recalls the chilling reality of memorizing suspicious cars outside her home in LA just to stay safe.
This conversation will leave you rethinking everything that you thought you knew about Ginger's life. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Unplayed Podcast. Today we are joined by Ginger and Jeremy. Let's give it up. I think Jeremy hyped you up.
You guys are pregnant.
She's pregnant. What are your thoughts on saying you guys are pregnant or we're pregnant?
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges of being in the public eye?
She just turned four, which is wild.
Wait, that's the age gap I have with my brothers. Crazy. Is it okay? And I'm not as close to my younger brother as I am to my older brother. Don't tell us that. I'm sorry.
We're just not going to talk about that.
Then we're going to have to have another one.
So now we have another in two years. But now we're getting closer again.
I feel like they're having a boy, so it was going to be different anyway.
Wow. So you're predicting it.
I'm predicting it.
I love that. I believe. Hey, I know.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Jinger share about her upcoming book?
Chapter 6: How does Jinger balance social media and parenting?
Because like you feel like. as a teenager, especially being able to like talk to her about those things, it's hard to open up. But then at the same time, she would always make me feel like it wasn't, it wasn't so out of place, right? Like that reaction, she would never react. And that was something that was super comforting. Cause I knew I wasn't crazy. I wasn't like going insane. Like I was okay.
We're going to get through this together. And I did.
It's so sweet, too, because I think it might be easy for people that grew up in much smaller families to think, how could you ever have personal relationships with that many children? And the way that your mom was like... you're clearly felt safe to approach her with about that.
Like something that a lot of people would be too afraid or like, especially if it's someone that you don't know, like you clearly had a really close relationship to her mom to like go to her with that. But then also like her response and like, that's really sweet to hear. Yeah.
She's, she's amazing. I love her so much. She's like, yeah, she's a role model. Has she gotten to read your book? So I, I have not sent her copy cause I, we just, that is the first copy I've seen. So as soon as it comes out, I was, but I talked to her about it already a lot. Yeah.
We were chatting about it and I was just thanking her for how she helped me so much to like break free from a lot of that people pleasing. So that's so sweet. And the book is dedicated to her. I,
she really is the sweetest person i wish you could meet her can you my mom you will always be my hero and best friend i love you and i'm extra emotional in pregnancy so i'm going to be crying through this whole thing i felt so i was like gosh dang it did i like make you cry if i ask you that question no but she did you show her this so i haven't yet oh
I haven't yet, but I'm looking forward to getting her cause I don't have a copy yet. So I'm just going to give it to her. Is she emotional? She is, but she's also so she's, she's emotional, but she's also steady.
so she has that deep strength but such a such a sweet sweet woman that is really sweet i love how you said that your mom was there for you and said you're going to be okay when you were going through that has that been a role that jeremy has taken on now that that that you're a married woman you have you know a third baby on the way like Has that relationship with your mom changed at all?
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