Sun Jul 13 11:30:00 UTC 2025: **For Immediate Release**
**Joy-Anna Duggar Opens Up About 2019 Miscarriage in Emotional Podcast Appearance**
**[City, State] –** Joy-Anna Duggar, known from TLC’s “Counting On,” has shared a deeply personal account of her 2019 miscarriage during an appearance on the “Jinger & Jeremy” podcast hosted by her siblings Jinger and Jessa Duggar. Duggar spoke candidly about the loss of her daughter, Annabell Elise Forsyth, who was delivered at 20 weeks gestation.
Visibly emotional, Duggar recounted a “gut feeling” that something might be wrong during her pregnancy. The experience of delivering Annabell was “extremely hard,” she shared, emphasizing the difficulty of the delivery process.
Duggar expressed gratitude for the support she received from her mother, who had experienced a similar loss, and her broader support network. However, she acknowledged the enduring physical and emotional toll of Annabell’s death.
“You know, you recover physically, you stop bleeding,” Duggar said. “You have to kind of move on, and [someone] told me, they’re like, ‘I went through a loss and it took me a long time. There’s no set timeline.'”
Duggar emphasized that healing from such a loss is a process with no fixed timeline. She revealed that she felt “in a cloud” for around six months after the miscarriage, acknowledging the complexities of postpartum recovery compounded by grief. She directly addressed other parents who have faced loss, encouraging them to “give themselves grace” and acknowledging that “there’s gonna be days where you can have joy, but the next day may be really hard, and you’re hit with that grief again.”
The podcast appearance follows an emotional Instagram post earlier this month where Duggar commemorated what would have been Annabell’s sixth birthday. The post included images from her pregnancy and the hospital, revealing that Annabell weighed 4.8 oz and was 7 inches long.
Duggar and her husband, Austin Forsyth, held a funeral service and burial for Annabell shortly after her birth. They are also parents to son Gideon (born in 2018), daughter Evelyn (born in 2020), and son Gunner (born in 2022).
This candid discussion provides an important insight into the realities of pregnancy loss and the importance of support and self-compassion during the grieving process. Duggar’s openness will likely resonate with many other parents who have experienced similar heartbreak.
First Piper 