Jinger Duggar Recalls Initial ‘Hesitation’ About Jeremy Vuolo Courtship: He Was ‘Outside of My World’

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While Jinger Duggar found The One in Jeremy Vuolo, she was initially wary about entering into a courtship with her now-husband.“Jer came on the scene and I think my hesitation was mainly because of him being outside of my world,” the Counting On alum, 29, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the Tuesday, January 31, release of her Becoming Free Indeed memoir. “And that can be a fearful thing when you’re in that culture.”The TLC personality — one of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar’s 19 children, who were raised to follow minister Bill Gothard‘s ultra-conservative Institute in Basic Life Principles tenets— first met the former soccer player, now 35, in 2015.

The twosome announced their courtship in June 2016, one month before Vuolo popped the question during a New York City trip.Jinger ultimately said “yes” to the pastor’s proposal despite her initial hesitations. “I had such confidence, though,” she recalled to Us on Tuesday. “I remember coming back [from a date] and telling my mom, ‘I feel so safe with him.

Like he is everything that I’ve ever wanted.’”She continued: “He wasn’t in our setting, which is just crazy to think about, but he loved God and he was committed to the word of God and lived his life according to it.

And that’s where I found, ‘OK, this guy is an awesome guy.’ It’s exactly what I’ve wanted.”Jinger’s romance with Vuolo followed the tradition set by her elder siblings, who all courted their future spouses before tying the knot.