Oh, baby!
By Rebecca Jane Stokes — Written on Jul 30, 2018
Is Jill Duggar pregnant again with baby #3? Are your Duggar senses tingling? You know, Duggar senses— like Spidey senses only instead of being bitten by a radioactive spider, Duggar senses are triggered when you've watched way, way, way too much programming dedicated to this devoted Quiverful clan. Yeah, how do you like them apples, Peter Parker?
Well, if your Duggar senses are tingling, you aren't alone! Mine are going pretty haywire and it turns out for a very good reason. If you're a fan of the family that once dominated TLC with their shows 16 Kids and Counting and Counting On, then chances are you may have already heard all of the rumors that have come home to roost where Jill Duggar is concerned. Hold on to your church hats because this one is pretty darn good...
That's riiiiight, this proud mama of two kids, Israel David Dillard, 3 and Samuel Scott Dillard, 1 with her husband Derick Dillard has sparked serious rumors she might be pregnant with baby number three! Can you even imagine? If she is pregnant it's clear Jill is following in the proud footsteps of her mom and dad Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar. It would make sense if Jill were pregnant. Just look at how quickly her brother and her sisters began adding children to their own families!
At just 27 years of age three kids is nothing to sniff at! If Jill Duggar is pregnant, the rest of us gals are going to have to rethink the way in which we're using (or in my tragic spinster case, not using) our uteruses and get to the baby making, already! But before we start planning her baby shower and coming up with ideas for names for this next addition to the extensive clan we have to find out how much truth there is in the rumor that Jill is pregnant at all! Let's investigate:
1. She's craving gummi bears.
It was the Instagram post heard 'round the world!
When Jill Duggar shared a photograph of herself with a bag of gummi bears on Instagram, probably the last thing she expected was to start an explosion of speculation about the state of her womb.
Who knew a craving for the chewy sweets was such a giveaway? Well, it appears, everyone who follows her on social media!
After sharing the photo her fans started replying to the post and sharing it with their friends as proof that Jill is definitely pregnant with baby number three.
It feels like a stretch, and maybe it is one, but then you look at the other signs and start to think that maybe these fans are onto something that Jill might have accidentally let the news about her third pregnancy slip earlier than she meant to!
2. It's been a year since she last gave birth.
When Jill announced her second pregnancy with baby Samuel, her first-born Israel (known as Izzy) was just a year old.
The timing for her to be pregnant with number three is right, provided she wants to stick with that one-year age gap between her children.
Fans and her family alike have been watching Jill like a hawk just in case because they that she and Derick have plans for a large family, something they have spoken about before to the press.
"Both of us want as many kids as God will give us and we've talked about adoption," Jill told ABC News. "My parents have kept popping them out so we'll see how [our] fertility is!"
If those plans are true there's no time for delay — now would be the perfect time for Jill to share bump number three with the world!
3. She's hiding her belly.
Fans of the reality tv star are anxiously clamoring for news about Jill's third pregnancy, but she's staying totally tight-lipped — at least for right now.
Still, those suggesting she might be pregnant could definitely be onto something and you don't have to look very far to see what they mean, either.
In addition to sharing her passion for a certain chewy candy treat, Jill has also been conspicuously cropping all of the photographs she shares on social media.
While every single one of us out there has edited a photo of ourselves that we're posting online, we're usually just looking for ways to highlight our good features. Jill has taken this approach to the extreme, cropping all of her photos so that her belly isn't remotely visible in any of the photographs taken recently.
Now, this doesn't guarantee that she is pregnant. She could be a new mom or, you know, a human woman who is self-conscious about the way that he stomach looks.
Still, me wearing a blousy shirt the day I've eaten my weight in pizza is different from a celebrity in the public eye known for having lots of kids cropping photos of herself.
You know what they say: where there's smoke, there's fire (and where there are gummi bears, there's a pregnant Duggar). We'd keep our ear pressed to the rail if we were you because it sounds like the third member of the Dillard-Duggar clan could be announced any day now!
Rebecca Jane Stokes is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York with her cats, Batman and Margo. She hosts the love and dating advice show, Becca After Dark, every Tuesday and Thursday at 10:15 pm Eastern. For more of her work, check out her Tumblr.