Joy-Anna Duggar grew up with a strict dress code, but now that she has started her own family, she’s not necessarily following the rules she grew up with. The 19 Kids and Counting alum recently shared a video that showcased her morning routine, but her outfit is what has garnered a lot of attention. What she wore is not something she would ever have been able to wear while under parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s roof.
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In the video, Joy-Anna went to the gym after getting her kids ready.
Joy-Anna and her husband Austin Forsyth are parents to three children: son Gideon, daughter Evelyn, and son Gunner. In the morning, she fed her kids and helped them get ready for the day.
Meanwhile, she got ready to go to the gym. She changed into her gym clothes: a T-shirt and athletic shorts. It might seem like a typical workout outfit, but Duggar fans know the family didn’t usually dress this way to exercise.
She filmed her bootcamp-style workout.
The video showed snippets of Joy-Anna’s workout at the gym. “That was a good workout,” she said afterward. “I got some PRs!”
After her workout, she helped her kids study, with Gunner reviewing the ABCs, Evelyn working on her understanding of capital letters, and Gideon learning about different types of coins.
The Duggar kids were raised to be modest and cover their legs.
The reason Joy-Anna’s shorts stood out in the video is because she grew up with a strict dress code, which involved not wearing shorts. Joy-Anna explained on The Unplanned Podcast that her family’s strict dress code growing up applied to both girls and boys. “My brothers — probably until I was 15, 16 — they didn’t wear shorts,” she said (via E! News). The girls in the family grew up wearing long skirts instead of pants.
Joy-Anna previously opened up about her decision to wear pants.
After marrying Austin and having kids, Joy-Anny started to reevaluate some of the rules that her parents had growing up. She was raised with the teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles. Within a year of being married, she and Austin began talking about what their own belief system might be. This included in the way they would dress.
Previously, she explained why she decided to start wearing pants.
More than a year before sharing the recent video in which she wore shorts, Joy-Anna opened up about how she came to the decision to wear pants after wearing skirts all her life. She previously said in a YouTube video: “I think biblically, we just kind of looked through scripture for a long time and feel like this is OK for our family.”
“I feel like you can be modest and wear pants and that’s kind of where we came to,” she added. “I do try to be modest in my pants, like in wearing pants, and not things too tight or too short.”
