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Jason and Maddie Duggar have been married six months. They published their first YouTube q&A recently, and insist Maddie was no fangirl when they met on Instagram.
Jason and Maddie Duggar might be one of the lesser-known Duggar couples. While Jason did appear on the Duggar family show, 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, he was pretty young when the first show aired and unwed when the second reality TV series was at its most popular. Despite their relative obscurity, rumors have swirled about the pair since their October 2024 wedding. Maddie, who was born and raised in Tennessee, wants to set the record straight. She says she was not a Duggar family fangirl.
Maddie Jones defends her marriage to Jason Duggar
Maddie Jones and Jason Duggar uploaded their very first YouTube channel. They opted to upload a Q&A as their very first offering. Maddie decided to address one major rumor head-on. The newlywed has heard rumblings that she was a fangirl before she married into the Duggar family, and she wants everyone to know that that is not the case. Maddie admitted she had seen episodes of the Duggar family’s shows but claimed she didn’t consider herself a fan when she stumbled upon Jason’s Instagram profile.
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Maddie and Jason first met on Instagram, but who contacted whom first is still a bit hazy. Jason once claimed he contacted Maddie to prove to his older sister, Jana Wissmann, that you could meet an appropriate partner online. Maddie’s recent admission suggests she may have initiated contact after thinking Jason looked “cute” in his Instagram photos.
The timing of their courtship suggests she probably wasn’t a ‘superfan’
Despite knowing of the Duggar family before getting involved with Jason Duggar, it seems likely that Maddie wasn’t the “fangirl” that critics assumed she was. After all, Maddie and Jason Duggar didn’t connect until years after the Duggar family’s reality TV series Counting On went off the air. By the time they connected, the family name had been dragged through the mud, destroyed by Josh Duggar’s arrest, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s handling of the childhood sex abuse inside their home, and Jim Bob Duggar’s financial abuse of his children. Jason also had a minimal role in the most recent years of the show’s tenure.
It would seem likely that most people would shy away from getting involved with the family, especially if they weren’t socially connected beforehand. There is compelling evidence to suggest the Duggar boys don’t have the fan base that some think they do. Jason is one of the first Duggar boys to marry someone who wasn’t connected to his social circle.
Duggar family critics think that at least one superfan married into the family
Maddie Jones insists she did not become a Duggar because she was a super fan. That might be the case. Still, Duggar family critics are convinced that a Duggar family super fan did manage to marry into the family. For years, critics have suspected that Ben Seewald was a superfan who actively sought out Jessa Seewald. Ben basically confirmed the theory, but the signs were there all along.
Ben and Jessa met at a church service that the Seewald family just happened upon. That may have been believable if the Seewald family didn’t live over three hours from the Duggar family’s home church. There is little in the area to draw someone there for vacation. The drive appears to have been specifically to meet the Duggars. That seemingly suggests he and his family were super fans. The year was 2013, right when the Duggar family’s image was at its cleanest, and they were at their most popular.
Ben later confirmed that he actively sought out Jessa after seeing her on TV. According to InTouch, Ben confirmed he was a fan in an excerpt added to Growing Up Duggar. The book is one Jessa and several of her sisters penned.
