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Joy-Anna Forsyth (née Duggar) enjoyed a girls’ day out with her sisters Jennifer Duggar and Johanna Duggar, as well as their mom, Michelle Duggar.
The 19 Kids and Counting alum shared a couple of photos via Instagram Stories on Friday, October 19. In one picture, Joy-Anna, 26, Johanna, 19, Jennifer, 17 and Michelle, 58, posed for a selfie.
“How does my mom just keep getting younger and younger?!” Joy-Anna wrote at the top, and added, “Coffee and facials all around” at the bottom of the image.
The outing was in celebration of Johanna’s birthday, and in the second snap, Joy-Anna and Johanna smiled inside the salon.
“Birthday celebrations with my little sis,” the mom of three wrote. “Cannot believe you are 19.”
Joy-Anna recently opened up about her relationship with religion after her older sisters Jinger Duggar and Jill Duggar released books regarding their upbringing in the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP,) a nondenominational Christian fundamentalist organization. The former Counting On star got emotional discussing how Jinger’s memoir, Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear, caused her to reevaluate her own feelings when it came to religion.
“I came to a point where I was just like, what is even real?” Joy-Anna said during her Wednesday, October 16, appearance on the “Unplanned” podcast. “What do I believe? Like all this stuff. Is it right? Anyways, now we can take as much time as we want.”
Joy-Anna’s father, Jim Bob Duggar, and Michelle followed the principles of the IBLP, which included strict rules regarding dating, dancing and more. The former TLC star admitted that she felt like she had to check certain boxes in order for God to accept her.
“My parents never preached one time that it was like, ‘You do all these things and then God will accept you,’ but that’s how I took it personally,” Joy-Anna explained. We grew up with so many standards and I was great at keeping all of these standards and so my whole life, I was like doing all these things and my whole Christianity was always a checklist.”
Joy-Anna admitted that Jinger’s book, especially, made her question her feelings on religion.
“It was good and I can see now, looking back, how much God grew me in that season, but I do feel like Jinger’s book, specifically, just talking about just your faith and God and taking it from more of, like, ‘What can I do?’” Joy-Anna said.
Joy-Anna’s husband, Austin Forsyth, also joined her during the podcast, and he gave some insight into the Duggar family as well, including details on a courting checklist that Jim Bob, 59, expected the suitors his daughters dated to follow.
“That was pretty early on in our conversations where he gave me that list and wanted me to fill it out. And man, I think the questions in the list, a lot of them were good,” Austin, 30, recalled. “Just figuring out where somebody is with their religious beliefs and finances and family planning and just different stuff like that.”
Austin admitted that “maybe some” of the questions listed were “not any” of his would-be father-in-law’s “business.”
“But I mean, there’s like, ‘Have you ever, you know, been arrested?’ ‘Have you ever … whatever?’ And so he knew all that. … He knew a lot of that kind of stuff,” Austin said.
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