Joe and Kendra Duggar have always been forthcoming about their family life, sharing updates on Instagram and freely participating in "Counting On," a spin-off show within the Duggar reality TV franchise. Beginning in 2022, though, the couple stopped posting and discontinued their website. Joe and Kendra may have decided to end their continuous stream of self-promotion to protect their children from media examination and criticism, as The U.S. Sun speculated.
After all, Joe knows the pitfalls of media attention well, having grown up in the spotlight. As the seventh child and third son of reality TV stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, Joe first appeared on a reality TV special at age 11, and then regularly featured in the hit show, "19 Kids and Counting," beginning at the age of 13.
Like his father and one of his brothers, Joe now works as a realtor, yet he also builds and sells houses, the family website reports. It would likely be impossible for Joe and Kendra to step away from the outsized Duggar way of life completely, yet a quieter existence among all the noise may be well within reach.
