19 Kids And Counting: Jessa Duggar Seawald Pregnancy 'Bittersweet' After The Revelation of Josh Duggar Scandal

By Maria Slither - 24 Aug '15 09:10AM
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19 Kids and Counting star Jessa Duggar Sewald, who has just been recently engaged to Dillon King, has not been so happy with her first pregnancy compared to her sister's pregnancy journey last year.

"It is now bittersweet, because it's not lost on [Jessa] that Jill giving birth to Israel got an entire TLC special devoted to it," a source said to be close the Duggars told People.

The source mainly pointed out the public's horrid judgement towards Josh Duggar's scandals that also affected Jessa's supposedly happy posts on Instagram.

"Jessa would have liked to have had the same sort of platform to give thanks, show what a miracle she feels her child is and express her gratitude. But with the cancellation of 19 Kids in May, "the show isn't there to chronicle this happy time, and even though she's posting on social media, the scandal still gets brought up by commenters. So much has changed for Jessa compared to what Jill experienced, and it can't be changed back. And that's sad for her."

Jill and Jessa Duggar have been previously revealed to be one of the victims of Josh Duggar's molestation when they were still kids.

Though, the two of them have previously forgiven Josh but the public has not excluded them of judgement that has affected the whole family.

"I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying," Jessa told Fox News host Megyn Kelly during a special tell-all interview. "I'm like, 'That is so overboard and a lie really,'" Jessa once told Fox via Enstarz.

Meanwhile, the 22-year old reality TV star posted a bible passage on Instagram about forgiveness said to be about Josh Duggar's sins and how he deserves to be forgiven, PerezHilton reported.

"If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanest us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

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