Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child
By JILL ZEMAN

Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with her 18th child.

Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.


"We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.

The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.

The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.

Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores — or "jurisdictions" — are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a "jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

"The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores.

Duggar said she's six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they'll keep having children as long as God wills it.

"The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated," Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

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Child abuse!



Seriously though. Ewwwww

God wants her to have all dem chilrens.

my great aunt had 12 kids in 13 years.

Stymie said:

No...God wants her to shut her legs and stop confusing her uterus with a clown car.

If the woman wants to do it and her body can take it, I suppose, good for her.

I've seen the show and what I do find creepy is they seem like shut-ins. They're out of touch with the rest of the world, their kids are home schooled and I see the kids growing up socially akward with anyone outside their family. I also find it kinda hard to believe that these kids are getting the proper attention they should be getting from their parents - not other older children - their parents.

But hey, if they're all happy.....guess that's all that matters.

hokie said:

JustErin said:

It's a bit surpising but yeah, I don't really care how many kids she has. The religious garbage just creeped me out a little.

hokie said:

Stymie said:

Well ya, religious stuff always creeps me out as well.

Her uterus must look like a trash bag!

JerseyKRS said:

Seriously though...I am still trying to recover from having just one. I'm still having issues with my back and poor circulation and water retention to the point that I will probably be put on a diuretic.

I can't even imagine how destroyed her body is.

Gross.

JustErin said:

"Couples in the movement also believe that the husband is the head of the household and the wife is submissive to him, while the children are submissive to both. The girls wear long dresses or skirts and tops, while the boys wear slacks and polo shirts."

What's the show going to be called? Jim Bob & Michelle Plus 18?

If they're happy, why should their "lifestyle" bother anyone else?

I think ol' girl must have some bomb ass pussy...her husband just loves to hit it apparently...

roodboi said:

I love your signature.

Stymie said:

I made it for the people...

roodboi said:

roodboi said:

18 kids is nothing. My Mom is friends with a woman who has had a grand total of 25 kids, one set of twins. She use to babysit me when I was a little chica!

hokie said:

roodboi said: