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Jinger Duggar Vuolo displays her baby bump in pink blazer after statement about her ‘cult-like’ upbringing The star, 31, is expecting baby number three with husband Jeremy Vuolo

Jinger Duggar Vuolo displays her baby bump in pink blazer after statement about her 'cult-like' upbringing
          
          The star, 31, is expecting baby number three with husband Jeremy Vuolo

Jinger Duggar Vuolo stepped out in style for an errand run on Wednesday.

The star, 31, who is expecting baby number three with husband Jeremy Vuolo, was spotted out in Los Angeles with her bump cloaked in a fitted black top and H๏τ pink blazer.

Jinger’s ‘OOTD’ also consisted of flared grey slacks, a gold choker necklace, and a white heel.

The outing comes weeks after Jinger opened up about her childhood, realizing as an adult that she had an upbringing that was ‘cult-like in many ways’ under her parents Jim Bob and Michelle’s watch. 

But Jinger, who has since defected from the church her family raised her in, appeared present in the moment as she stepped out with her children.

The star had quite a busy day, with her schedule also including a radio interview which she conducted in an unusual setting. 

Jinger Duggar Vuolo displays her baby bump in pink blazer after statement about her ‘cult-like’ upbringing
          
          The star, 31, is expecting baby number three with husband Jeremy Vuolo

Jinger Duggar Vuolo stepped out in style for a family outing on Wednesday

‘Today’s radio interview brought to you from my closet,’ she revealed on her Instagram Stories with a selfie of her surrounded by her clothing. 

She also took a mirror selfie with details of her look. 

Her hand resting on her baby bump, she struck a pose in the mirror as she mused in writing, ‘Why is my mirror so dirty? But anyways here’s my ootd.’

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Jinger and her husband are expecting their third child together – a baby boy.

‘We’re having a boy and we’re very excited,’ Jinger, who shares daughters Felicity, six, and Evangeline, three, with Vuolo, revealed to Entertainment Tonight last month. 

The Arkansas-born reality star said the gender reveal even caught her off-guard: ‘I was so shocked to find out it was a boy, because I feel like everything felt the same. I actually had a lot of similarities to the pregnancy with the girls.’

She added: ‘I was so shocked, I almost fell off my chair. I was like, “How is this the boy gonna fit in?” But we are keeping the name a secret until the baby’s born, which is what we always do.’

Jinger told the show her rationale in keeping the name of the child private until the time of birth.

‘We’ve had like friends who’ve had issues with people like, “Oh, I’m gonna share the name, and then no one likes it,”‘ Jinger said. ‘But once that baby’s born, everybody thinks it’s the cutest name ever. So that’s our that’s our motto, our theory on it.’

Jinger's 'OOTD' also consisted of flared grey slacks, a gold choker necklace, and a white heel

Jinger’s ‘OOTD’ also consisted of flared grey slacks, a gold choker necklace, and a white heel

She also took a mirror selfie with details of her look. 'Why is my mirror so dirty? But anyways here's my ootd,' she wrote

She also took a mirror selfie with details of her look. ‘Why is my mirror so dirty? But anyways here’s my ootd,’ she wrote

Jinger’s family the Duggars rose to national fame on the TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting, with people tuning in to marvel at the dynamics of a 21-person nuclear family. 

Her parents raised their children in a non-denominational religious organization called the Insтιтute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), which was founded by controversial minister Bill Gothard in 1961.

Speaking with Fox News Digital last month, Jinger said she realized as an adult she had an upbringing that was ‘cult-like in many ways’ under Jim Bob and Michelle’s watch.

Jinger previously penned the 2023 book Becoming Free Indeed, which detailed her 2017 defection from the church she was raised in, the Insтιтute for Basic Life Principles (IBLP).

She conducted a radio interview from an unusual location

She conducted a radio interview from an unusual location

Speaking with Fox News Digital last month, Jinger said she realized as an adult she had an upbringing that was 'cult-like in many ways' under Jim Bob and Michelle's watch; pictured 2014

Speaking with Fox News Digital last month, Jinger said she realized as an adult she had an upbringing that was ‘cult-like in many ways’ under Jim Bob and Michelle’s watch; pictured 2014

‘I exposed the harmful teachings I was raised under, but then I began to realize that I was so entrapped by what people think about me that I was almost unwilling to speak on this topic,’ she told Fox. ‘I was so afraid of losing my community, my friends, my family, those who I love so dearly.’

She added, ‘I thought if I spoke up against them, then I would be putting everything on the line – and as a people pleaser, it was the disapproval that I faced that I feared the most.’

Jinger told ET that she has a ‘complicated’ relationship with her parents amid her outspokenness: ‘There are definitely difficulties, things that we don’t see eye-to-eye on.’

Jinger told Fox that a move out of Laredo, Texas opened her eyes and ‘hit [her] like a ton of bricks’ in how she came off to people she didn’t know well.

The Duggars rose to national fame on the TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting, with people tuning in to marvel at the dynamics of a 21-person nuclear family

The Duggars rose to national fame on the TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting, with people tuning in to marvel at the dynamics of a 21-person nuclear family

‘I was in Laredo for two-and-a-half years,’ Jinger, who moved to LA from Laredo with her husband in 2019, said. ‘As we were leaving Texas, one of the ladies in our community said, “I’m going to miss you, but I also feel like I didn’t get to know you – maybe you didn’t let me into your life as much as I would’ve wished.”‘

She continued, ‘I had been so guarded. I had been so afraid of what people thought about me that I wanted to keep up this performance. I was afraid that if I showed them that I had hard days, they wouldn’t like me. Maybe they thought I was insecure about what I didn’t know.’

Jinger said that she got a chilly reception from some people in her family over the contents of her first book.

‘It was difficult because I did receive some criticism from friends and loved ones,’ Jinger said. ‘I think it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but I realized that at the end of the day, I had to speak my truth.’

Jinger said that ‘at the same time, there was an overwhelming majority of them who were helped’ by her publicly questioning the validity of the church’s teachings. She said, ‘They thought, “I haven’t stopped to consider if these teachings are accurate.”‘

She added, ‘Helping people come out of the cult-like teachings that I was raised under was the most rewarding thing; looking back, I could have remained silent as a people pleaser.

‘But then so many people would still be stuck with those teachings. It has been more encouraging than anything just to see the number of people who’ve been helped by me sharing my story.’

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