Josiah and Lauren: He Has To Marry Somebody

[Churchhoney]

5 hours ago, Snow Fairy said:

Yes, I just wrote that on Joy's thread. Come on girls

It's all they've got. 

They'll never graduate from college or bring home a paycheck or even play in a softball league or lead the book-club discussion at the local library. And, at least as far as they envision right now, neither will their daughters (or their sons, given the way Duggarland operates -- the sons will just work for an unspecified Jim Bob (age 110) enterprise and people will say, What the hell does he even do?) 

There are limited opportunities to feel a sense of accomplishment. 

Edited May 26, 2019 by Churchhoney

[ginger90]

Josiah looks as if he’s checking if a gun holster is still in place.

[heckkitty]

I can understand holding the bump that way once you really have one. It’s instinctive, and somehow feels better. But she’s barely showing so makes no sense at all. 

[3 is enough]

18 minutes ago, heckkitty said:

I can understand holding the bump that way once you really have one. It’s instinctive, and somehow feels better. But she’s barely showing so makes no sense at all. 

It’s going to be a LONG six months. 🙄

[Ohiopirate02]

12 hours ago, awaken said:

OMG with the holding of the baby bump!!!  It compulsory with these people!

And josiah maintains his jazz hands and greasy look!

I feel like the Lonely Island's "I just had sex" should be playing during a slide show of the baby bump pics.

[Minivanessa]

29 minutes ago, heckkitty said:

I can understand holding the bump that way once you really have one. It’s instinctive, and somehow feels better. But she’s barely showing so makes no sense at all. 

^^This. As noted, it's all she has going for her, she's young and although she's annoying with all the drama about it, I'm sure she was devastated by the miscarriage. So she's going to be hugging that bump like mad every time there's a camera in range of her.

I'm blessed to be part of a large extended family - literally, cousins by the dozens. As generations grow up we have a lot of pregnant women in the family. Thinking back, including the current 20-somethings who grew up on social media, I can't remember a single. pregnant. woman. holding her bump when she posed for a group photo. And almost all of these women are Southern Baptists (though not fundies, thank goodness)! I vaguely recall one of the younger cousins doing a few "pregnancy progress" selfies on Facebook and I get it that you'd hug the bump for those. But for group photos, it's just a bit much.

10 minutes ago, 3 is enough said:

It’s going to be a LONG six months. 🙄

From your keyboard to God's ear.

Edited to add: Especially when she doesn't yet have much of a bump and a woman hugs it, it's all too easy for the photo to look almost skeevy at first glance because her hands are down by her crotch. Oh, well, to each her own . . .

Edited May 26, 2019 by Jeeves

[Absolom]

Way back in the dark ages when I was first pregnant, my mother had two requests for me: 1) don't duck waddle with an exaggerated swayback and 2) keep my hands off my abdomen.  She said it will be obvious you're pregnant soon enough and you don't need to dramatize the situation.  Have some dignity. 

Due to that it makes the pregnant women doing that to seem immature and twee and drama queens. 

Edited May 26, 2019 by Absolom

[Scarlett45]

39 minutes ago, heckkitty said:

I can understand holding the bump that way once you really have one. It’s instinctive, and somehow feels better. But she’s barely showing so makes no sense at all. 

I’m not going to criticize someone for touching their own body (outside of ways that violate obscenity laws). If a woman wants to touch her own stomach pregnant or not it’s got no effect on me what so ever. I have never been pregnant and will never be (lord willing!!) but I can imagine it’s odd having your stomach grow like that. I can see how it would be natural to touch it just because you know something is in there and growing. 

[Minivanessa]

6 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:

I’m not going to criticize someone for touching their own body (outside of ways that violate obscenity laws). If a woman wants to touch her own stomach pregnant or not it’s got no effect on me what so ever. I have never been pregnant and will never be (lord willing!!) but I can imagine it’s odd having your stomach grow like that. I can see how it would be natural to touch it just because you know something is in there and growing. 

I'm not criticizing anyone for touching her baby bump; it's a familiar gesture if you're around a pregnant woman for any length of time. 

But, I am not a fan of posing for a group photo and grasping or holding (not just touching) the bump from below. I don't think it looks natural at all - especially in early stage pregnancy. I've been around a lot of pregnant women, in the family and the workplace and I just don't recall that position as something at all usual. (Unless it's getting near full term, and the photos we're talking about aren't of nearly full term pregnant women.) IMO the pose is all for attention, just in case anyone might not already know they are pregnant. 

[bigskygirl]

She is just showing what the women in the family have been taught. It is her duty to get pregnant and let the world know she is special and blessed because she is pregnant. The Duggar women act like they are the first and only women on the planet who ever got pregnant and had a baby.

[GeeGolly]

I think in addition to advertising the Fundy Gold Prize, vanity is also a reason. They don't want anyone thinking they're gaining weight.

I work with a few women who wore loose fitting tops that hid their non-pregnant tummies. Then the minute they found out they were pregnant they started wearing more form fitting tops - because pregnant, not fat.

[Rabbittron]

25 minutes ago, bigskygirl said:

The Duggar women act like they are the first and only women on the planet who ever got pregnant and had a baby.

They are. My mom and I found our kids at Babies R Us😂

[Churchhoney]

58 minutes ago, bigskygirl said:

She is just showing what the women in the family have been taught. It is her duty to get pregnant and let the world know she is special and blessed because she is pregnant. The Duggar women act like they are the first and only women on the planet who ever got pregnant and had a baby.

Well, you know, they're very perceptive and thoughtful.  I'm sure they look around and see no evidence that others have had babies....  ;  )

[xwordfanatik]

14 hours ago, awaken said:

OMG with the holding of the baby bump!!!  It compulsory with these people!

And josiah maintains his jazz hands and greasy look!

If I may be so bold, what are jazz hands?  

Lauren's dress looks comfortable at least.  Josiah looks very uncomfortable.  It's his regular look, now.  Poor balding guy that looks doughy.

[bigskygirl]

Josiah looks like a younger version of Smugs. Poor kid.

[Snow Fairy]

https://instagram.com/laurduggar_rp?igshid=5yjqhhn04kuh

Is this real?

[dargosmydaddy]

24 minutes ago, Snow Fairy said:

Is this real?

No. "Rp" stands for "role-play." Why anyone would want to role play as Lauren I don't know, but their official Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/siandlaurenduggar/?hl=en

[Churchhoney]

38 minutes ago, xwordfanatik said:

If I may be so bold, what are jazz hands?  

If only. 

(h/t Bob Fosse)

Edited May 26, 2019 by Churchhoney

[Oldernowiser]

It looks like she has to pee...urgently.

[madpsych78]

2 hours ago, heckkitty said:

I can understand holding the bump that way once you really have one. It’s instinctive, and somehow feels better. But she’s barely showing so makes no sense at all. 

I was checking out pictures of Jill when she was pregnant with Izzy and Sam. Jill sometimes held her bump, but mostly later along in the pregnancy. And when she took those chalkboard pictures while pregnant with Izzy she nearly always held her back, rather than her bump, other than one picture that was taken when she was 19 weeks. 

Joy holds her bump regularly, but she also tended to show really early with Giddy and it looks to be a similar story with Baby Forsyth #2. 

Lauren, in contrast, is barely showing, and given the nature of that dress, probably would hide an early-stage pregnancy if she just had her hands at her sides. I've never been pregnant, but it would seem to me that someone who is in the early stages of pregnancy wouldn't be big enough where holding the stomach would make a substantial difference in terms of bringing comfort. 

[McManda]

1 hour ago, madpsych78 said:

but it would seem to me that someone who is in the early stages of pregnancy wouldn't be big enough where holding the stomach would make a substantial difference in terms of bringing comfort. 

It would bring comfort, I imagine, if one's comfort is derived from being lauded as a pregnant woman. It's not a physical comfort she's after (via lifting or shifting the weight of her stomach), it's the emotional comfort of being one of the tribe, of knowing she's fulfilling her godly purpose, and bring congratulated for being pregnant. 

I'd imagine it's the partly the same reason she grieved her early miscarriage so publicly. She's looking for validation and comfort from others - look, she's trying, it's not her fault she's been married a year with no baby yet, 

That's not to say that I think Lauren is consciously acting that way. I think that is just been so deeply ingrained that she's supposed to do that that it's just second nature for her. And for that I'm sad for her.

[awaken]

17 hours ago, cmr2014 said:

All of Josiah's clothes are too small. I don't know if he gained a lot of weight and hasn't bothered to get new clothes, or if he thinks tight clothes are a thing.

He always looks uncomfortably stuffed into his clothes. 

[galaxychaser]

36 minutes ago, awaken said:

He always looks uncomfortably stuffed into his clothes. 

Maybe he wants to be a nudist?

[Lisa418722]

I think at this point Lauren just wants to make sure everyone knows that she is finally pregnant and if that means cradling a tummy that looks like she just ate lunch, then she's going to do it.

[JoanArc]

20 hours ago, Hannah316 said:

Someone didn’t get the memo that you don’t wear white to a wedding if you’re not the bride... 

They've aged 15-20 years.

[emma675]

8 minutes ago, JoanArc said:

They've aged 15-20 years.

Agreed. If I didn't know them I would guess Lauren is in her early 30s and Josiah is early 40s.

[3 is enough]

I had 3 pregnancies.  My kids are now 30, 28, and 26. I can honestly say that there are NO photos of me cradling my bump, or my husband cradling my bump, or either of us making "heart hands". 

I'm thinking this was not "a thing" in the late 80's-early 90's.

I will admit to a couple of late 3rd trimester side view photos, but that's it.

[awaken]

4 hours ago, galaxychaser said:

Maybe he wants to be a nudist?

Ahhh, the relief if he was ever allowed to be free!  Instead we get resting jazz hands and tight pants. 

[Abstract]

2 hours ago, 3 is enough said:

I had 3 pregnancies.  My kids are now 30, 28, and 26. I can honestly say that there are NO photos of me cradling my bump, or my husband cradling my bump, or either of us making "heart hands". 

I'm thinking this was not "a thing" in the late 80's-early 90's.

I will admit to a couple of late 3rd trimester side view photos, but that's it.

I had 3 babies in the 2000s (pre-2010), and this wasn't a thing then either.

I heard about gender reveal parties (on Facebook, where else) for the first time when my youngest was a toddler, and realized I had dodged a bullet.

I blame Susan.

[Snow Fairy]

My kids are 5 and 1 and I have no photo holding my belly. I do have bump pictures I made every month, but they are not for public. Even my husband didn't see all of them, they're just mine

My hands were on my stomach only when the baby kicked/stretched in the way it made me uncomfortable, so I put my hand to calm it. And that was way later in the pregnancy

And I had a misscariage when I was 8-9 weeks pregnant, and I do not count that as my child, I didn't name it. It hurt,because it was a spontaneus pregnancy (my two are ivf babies), but I will not grieve for all my life.  

[Nysha]

On 5/26/2019 at 10:06 AM, Rabbittron said:

On 5/26/2019 at 9:38 AM, bigskygirl said:

The Duggar women act like they are the first and only women on the planet who ever got pregnant and had a baby.

They are. My mom and I found our kids at Babies R Us😂

I found mine through Oregon's Department of Children & Families adoption program. Which is fine because after watching my daughter give birth twice, I no longer regret not giving birth to mine.

[Lunera]

It's gonna be a long pregnancy. Good luck to Siahhh, Lauren seems like the type to play the helpless pregnant woman to get her way.

[Churchhoney]

6 hours ago, Lunera said:

It's gonna be a long pregnancy. Good luck to Siahhh, Lauren seems like the type to play the helpless pregnant woman to get her way.

In that shot, she looks like she's absentmindedly masturbating in public. 

Note to Lauren: Holding your bump when your bump's not yet visible can give a very bad impression. 

Edited May 28, 2019 by Churchhoney

[jukie]

I think when you have been taught that your only role in life is to produce children, and you 'failed' at your first attempt your mindset instinctively would be to show the world you have been successful .....look see, I did it, I did what I was told I had to do, I made sperm and egg meet up, created a baby and now I am going to show you ever opportunity I can that I am a good incubator because that is how I and everyone I know validates me as a good human being.

[tabloidlover]

9 hours ago, Lunera said:

It's gonna be a long pregnancy. Good luck to Siahhh, Lauren seems like the type to play the helpless pregnant woman to get her way.

We seriously need an eye roll emoji for posts like this.   She is killing me with the bump holding.   Granted, I was pregnant 23 years ago, BUT the only time I ever held the bump was at 9 months pregnant.  I am 5’ tall on a good day and my stomach was hella large.   My purpose in holding it up was to release pressure.   

She is an attention whore and all of this is to draw attention to herself.   @Lunera nailed it, it’s gonna be a very long pregnancy.

[madpsych78]

Is it me or does that bump look bigger in the group shot than it did in the photo with just her and Josiah?

FFS, Lauren, you're only what, 3 or 4 months pregnant? To be fair, everyone carries differently and Joy legitimately showed early on in both pregnancies, but methinks that Lauren is sticking out her belly a little more than normal in this pic.

However, that was the biggest smile I've seen from Josiah in a long time interestingly. Maybe because he was standing with other people that are not Duggars nor Lauren (even though Lauren was also there)? 

[sigmaforce86]

17 minutes ago, tabloidlover said:

We seriously need an eye roll emoji for posts like this.   She is killing me with the bump holding.   Granted, I was pregnant 23 years ago, BUT the only time I ever held the bump was at 9 months pregnant.  I am 5’ tall on a good day and my stomach was hella large.   My purpose in holding it up was to release pressure.   

She is an attention whore and all of this is to draw attention to herself.   @Lunera nailed it, it’s gonna be a very long pregnancy.

I'm going straight to hell for this one but when I saw all those pictures with her holding the barely there yet bump my first thought was can we please get Abbie to explain to her that you don't have to physically hold babies in there for the entire pregnancy; they won't just fall out on their own.

Well that makes 5 Duggar girls pregnant this year, should be an interesting season 10 (premiering July or August maybe??).  I wonder if they'll include Anna at all?  I'm very sure though they'll recap Lauren's miscarriage several times as they cover the current pregnancy.

[louannems]

1 hour ago, madpsych78 said:

Is it me or does that bump look bigger in the group shot than it did in the photo with just her and Josiah?

FFS, Lauren, you're only what, 3 or 4 months pregnant? To be fair, everyone carries differently and Joy legitimately showed early on in both pregnancies, but methinks that Lauren is sticking out her belly a little more than normal in this pic.

However, that was the biggest smile I've seen from Josiah in a long time interestingly. Maybe because he was standing with other people that are not Duggars nor Lauren (even though Lauren was also there)? 

I feel like Lauren is caving in her ribcage and chest, causing her lower abdomen to bulge out more.  Didn't Lauren grow up with a perpetually pregnant mom?  This stage of life should be matter of fact for her.  Enough posturing!

[Churchhoney]

13 minutes ago, louannems said:

I feel like Lauren is caving in her ribcage and chest, causing her lower abdomen to bulge out more.  Didn't Lauren grow up with a perpetually pregnant mom?  This stage of life should be matter of fact for her.  Enough posturing!

But then what in the world will she do to get attention for the rest of her life? 

She comes off as a real lover of attention to me, and she doesn't have any other way of getting it in their setup. 

I expect she'll milk every bump for all it's worth. So to speak.

Edited May 28, 2019 by Churchhoney

[Lunera]

I wonder if Lauren thinks these girls are jealous of her.

[Sew Sumi]

42 minutes ago, Lunera said:

I wonder if Lauren thinks these girls are jealous of her.

The Salyer sisters are happily single. Ashley (left) dumped Nathan Bates. 

[BitterApple]

24 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

The Salyer sisters are happily single. Ashley (left) dumped Nathan Bates. 

Smartest decision she ever made. Those two were such a mismatch. 

[Madtown]

Did she seriously hold her stomach in every picture? I worked with a girl years ago that did this constantly. I remember going to dinner with the small group I worked with and she walked in holding her belly and she was barely pregnant. She soaked up any attention she could get.

[libgirl2]

1 minute ago, Madtown said:

Did she seriously hold her stomach in every picture? I worked with a girl years ago that did this constantly. I remember going to dinner with the small group I worked with and she walked in holding her belly and she was barely pregnant. She soaked up any attention she could get.

Its going to get annoying real fast. 

[Madtown]

Just now, libgirl2 said:

Its going to get annoying real fast. 

It already is..lol I weep for that child as it will always be the 2nd child in their eyes.

[BigBingerBro]

Maybe the bump holding is so that she (or others) will remember that she was pregnant at the time when they go back and look at these photos in the future??  I mean, I totally get that she wants a baby and IS pregnant, but it's so over the top to do it in every.single.photo!

[Temperance]

The bump holding would look more natural if her hand was closer to her belt. 

[Churchhoney]

8 minutes ago, Temperance said:

The bump holding would look more natural if her hand was closer to her belt. 

...or if she had a bump. 

[GeeGolly]

And the belted dress. To accentuate the non-bump.

[louannems]

3 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

The Salyer sisters are happily single. Ashley (left) dumped Nathan Bates. 

How would Lauren even know these two NYC sisters?