How Jana Duggar’s Journey to Motherhood Differed From Her Sisters’

While she and Stephen have since relocated to Nebraska, Jana shared in a July 15, 2024, video that she had moved into a “tiny house” not far from her parents’ place a few years beforehand and had been working on making it her own, noting she “got a really good deal on it” at a city auction.

After a few years off from Instagram and YouTube, Jana returned to social media that summer with videos showing that she’d spent a lot of time with “the girls”—her younger sisters Johannah, Jenni,  Jordyn-Grace, and Josie—and brothers Jason, James and Jackson.

When she was still in Arkansas, Jana would host movie nights (she showed off a massive projector screen and sound bar in her living room on YouTube) and kept a bowl full of candy on hand. And amid Jana’s many tiny-space storage solutions was her music corner, boasting a full-size keyboard and her violin hanging on the wall.

She also spearheaded having an above-ground pool installed on her family’s property (surrounded by a safety fence with a locking gate, because little kids), sharing in a video that she wanted to “create a space for both the young and the old to be able to come together and have some fun over the summer.”

In fact, Jana seemed to be spending most of her time on home improvement, not only renovating her own house—it used to be one big open room that the city used as a temporary office—but also working on the family farm.

Jana was still living with her parents at the height of the pandemic, though, admittedly feeling a little pressured at times to pair off, but also “not all that worried.”

“Yes, I long to be married,” she told Us Weekly in 2020. “One day I think that will come, but…also I’m just trying to stay busy with whatever comes along my path and just making the most of these single years. And then, when that time comes, then it’ll be the next season of life.”

Jana added, “I think if I sit there and I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’m not married,’ and just all worried about it, it makes things way worse. I just find the next thing to do is stay busy.”

Added mom Michelle, complimenting Jana’s entrepreneurial ways, “If it weren’t for her, half the projects around here wouldn’t get done.”

Case in point: Jana showed off in July 2024 that she had joined forces with her brothers a few years beforehand to turn the Duggar home playroom into a twisty-slide-boasting destination where kids of all ages would want to hang out.

And while Jana knew she was going to miss the farm she so lovingly tended to—”The sun rising over the orchard, the garden, the animals,” she mused in a November 2024 video. “It’s just so peaceful out here”—she’s had plenty to keep her busy in her new home.

True to form, she and Stephen—whose sister Hannah Wissman married Jana’s younger brother Jeremiah Duggar in 2022—bought a fixer-upper in Nebraska, and the new bride was obviously up to the task.

And you can’t blame a girl for wanting her own space when you grow up around this many people. Here’s a guide to the whole, ever-growing Duggar family tree: