Michelle Duggar's Secret Past

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Michelle Duggar conceived her 19 kids via a little something called unprotected sex. You don't end up with a soccer team of kids if you're using contraceptives, right? As it turns out, however, Michelle did use birth control at the beginning of her marriage to Jim Bob Duggar. Pretty wild stuff.

What's especially interesting to note is that Jim Bob was the one who spilled Michelle's birth control secret. "Believe it or not, when we first got married we decided we did not want to have children right away, so Michelle began taking birth control pills," Jim Bob wrote in a July 2016 blog post. "Three years into our marriage Michelle went off the pill and we had our first child. Then she went back on the pill, because we heard it was better to space your children out, but Michelle got pregnant while she was on the pill, and the pill caused her to miscarry. We talked to a Christian doctor and he explained that the pill could be abortive."

That idea — that birth control can cause a miscarriage — has been widely dismissed as a myth by top medical professionals.

But wait — this story isn't over just quite yet. Jim Bob also revealed that the couple stopped using birth control because of the aforementioned miscarriage. "We were so grieved ... we had lost our second child ... We asked God to forgive us, and we told God we want to follow Him with our lives and receive any blessings He wants to send our way."

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