Jessa Duggar and husband Ben Seewald's love story retains relying on.
Jessa, considered one of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 kids, met Seewald at church after they had been 20 and 17, respectively.
“We went up from central Arkansas [where we lived] to the northwest a part of the state, the place her household lived,” Seewald recalled of his mother and father and siblings on a Might 2025 episode of sister-in-law Jinger Duggar's eponymous podcast. “We had a connection between our households [in] a mutual good friend. We ended up going to her household's church that Sunday, and that was our first actual interplay, which wasn't a lot.”
In line with Seewald, he “labored collectively” along with his sisters to strategy Jessa.
“If I simply walked proper up and began speaking to her instantly, and if I present an excessive amount of curiosity, I used to be afraid that will frighten her away,” he defined. “Oh, ‘[He's] one other fanboy who had seen the present, who needed up to now her.'”
Whereas Seewald had seen episodes of TLC's 19 Youngsters and Counting, he was to truly join with the truth star offscreen.
“He walked up and mentioned, ‘Is that an iPhone?'” Jessa recalled on the podcast episode. “I used to be like, ‘Yeah, it's an previous one.' We mentioned nothing else till your loved ones rolled up on the convention. I used to be close to the registration serving to put my siblings into the youngsters' applications and also you mentioned, ‘Hello, I'm Ben Seewald.'”
On the finish of the convention, Seewald requested for Jesse's cellphone quantity to have a “theological dialogue.”
Seewald and Jessa courted for 11 months earlier than getting engaged. They wed in August 2014 and went on to welcome six kids collectively.
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Fall 2013
When Seewald first began courting Jessa, a lot of her siblings had been suspicious of his intentions.
“There was somewhat extra suspicion, I believe, as a result of I wasn't from their good friend group, their circle,” he recalled on Jinger's podcast in 2025. “I'm this stranger, this outsider. In order that they had been somewhat extra guarded, somewhat bit suspicious of me.”
August 2014
Seewald proposed after courting Jessa for 11 months.
“We're so blessed to be engaged,” they mentioned in a press release on the time. “God has written an incredible story by way of our courtship, and one other chapter has simply begun. We're thrilled to see what the long run holds — particularly the marriage bells!”
November 2014
Jessa and Seewald tied the knot on the First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Arkansas, which was filmed for a particular episode of 19 Youngsters and Counting.
“We seemed again and thought, man, that was good. It couldn't have gone higher,” the bride gushed in a confessional.
November 2015
After lower than a 12 months of marriage, Jessa introduced that she was pregnant. Son Spurgeon was born on November 15.
February 2017
The couple's second son, Henry, arrived two years later.
Might 2019
Jessa gave start to her first daughter, Ivy, on Might 26.
“I believe there have been so many issues that I felt like ‘I completely understand how to do that. I've been round youngsters,' however then when it's your personal child, it's completely completely different. For one, it's your accountability, it's not like, ‘Right here, Mother, the child stinks, change the diaper,'” Jessa later solely informed Us Weekly of parenthood in 2020. “Waking up within the evening, I believe that was most likely one of many hugest changes for me. Feeling that accountability of checking on their fever and ensuring they're OK. Like, when do I do know to go to the physician?”
Later in 2020, Jessa suffered a being pregnant loss.
July 2021
Jessa and Seewald's rainbow child, daughter Fern, was born on July 18.
December 2023
After one other miscarriage earlier that 12 months, the couple welcomed son George into their household.
March 2025
Jessa introduced that she is pregnant with child No. 6.
“Should you requested me proper now [if we were done having kids], I might say sure, however we've [said] that ever since three youngsters,” she mentioned on Jinger's podcast the next Might. “It's been like, ‘That is the final one,' after which a couple of 12 months and a half [or] two years later, I'm like, ‘Infants are simply so cute. We have to have only one extra.'”
August 2025
Duggar revealed that her and Seewald's sixth child had arrived.
“When child was born and every little thing was OK, I simply sobbed like a child. I simply cried,” Duggar mentioned in a YouTube video, saying the kid's start. “We each cried. The child's crying, I'm crying. It was such a fantastic second and we're so grateful.”
