On December 7, 2009, Michelle was rushed to the hospital for gallbladder issues. Premature Birth of Josie DuggarĪlthough each birth garnered more attention for the family due to the their large size, the most well-known of Jim Bob's newborns is Josie Duggar. Feeling God was blessing them for making the right decision, the couple determined to leave the number of children they had up to God. On January 12, 1990, Michelle gave birth to a set of twins, Jana Marie and John-David Duggar. Although they did not know the sex of the baby, they chose to name the miscarriage "Caleb". The couple was heartbroken, and decided to no longer use birth control. When Michelle suffered a miscarriage, the couple consulted with a Christian doctor who told them that the pill can cause miscarriages.
After giving birth to Josh, Michelle went back on birth control. On March 3, 1988, Jim Bob and Michelle welcomed their first child, Joshua James "Josh" Duggar to the world. They also invested in a number of commercial properties. In their early years of marriage, both Jim Bob and Michelle worked in real estate, which they were reported to be successful at. They were unhappy with the cabin, however, and cut their trip short so they could begin working on fixing up their new home.
The couple went to a cabin in Mount Nebo and Lake Fort Smith, Arkansas, for their honeymoon. "We wanted to spend our money on our honeymoon, which was our first time to be alone together." "Everything we did for our wedding was so inexpensive, but perfect for us," Michelle said in an interview in 2014. There is no video recording of the wedding, but there is an audio recording on a casette tape. The wedding only had fake flowers, which the couple then used to decorate their home. The wedding colors were pastel shades of yellow, pink, green, and blue. There were about two-hundred guests at the wedding. Michelle wore the wedding dress that was originally worn by Jim Bob's mother, Mary. Since the church was under construction, the couple was married in a hallway leading to a gymnasium. Jim Bob Duggar married Michelle Annette Ruark at Cross Church in Rogers, Arkansas, on July 21, 1984. Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Ruark's wedding invitation Marriage Jim Bob graduated from Shiloh Christian High school in May of 1984. After the banquet, Jim Bob and Michelle went back to Michelle's house and discussed the Bible for four hours and began dating. He came in to fix the cash register one day and invited Michelle to the junior/senior banquet at his high school, and she agreed. Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Ruark on their first dateĪ year later, when Jim Bob was a senior in high school, Michelle applied to work at a yogurt shop where Jim Bob's mother was a manager. When Jim Bob left her house, he prayed at the doorway "Lord, I would love to be her spiritual leader. The boys invited her to Sunday school and talked to her about recent conversion. When Jim Bob was about seventeen years old, he was going door to door visiting families who had visited their church when a friend, Fred Pearrow, suggested that they visit a cheerleader friend of his who had recently been saved. Not much else is known about Jim Bob's childhood. In the book Growing Up Duggar, which Jim Bob's daughters wrote, they mention that JL was not a good "spiritual leader of the home", a statement they don't expand on. Jim Bob often blames this on his father being unable to handle money. The Duggars did not have a lot of money, and in one of the books Jim Bob wrote as an adult he mentioned a time where his mother had to cook decorative rice because it was the only food in the house. James Robert "Jim Bob" Duggar was born on July 18, 1965, in Springdale, Arkansas, to Jimmy Lee "JL" Duggar and Mary Lester.
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