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These days, Jana Duggar is relying only on herself. After all, the former cast member of 19 Kids and Counting disclosed during a recent house tour of her own Arkansas residence that she had moved out of her parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's family home in Springdale, Arkansas.
The eldest of the Duggar family's nineteen children, Jana, said, "I moved in here a few years ago," in a July 15 YouTube video. We received a great deal on this property because it was once one of the temporary office buildings for the city. They were selling it at auction."
The building was originally "one big open space," but Jana claimed she was able to turn it into a "tiny house" with one bedroom.
Her house only has a toilet and shower, so there isn't a stove, but it does have a microwave and two sinks in the kitchenette—one for cooking and one for hand washing.
"It's a little strangely set up," she said about her restroom. "But then, it was a front porch."
Jana claimed that because of the small size of her house, she had to be resourceful in how she arranged her furniture, employing a portable projection screen for movie evenings with her nieces and nephews, for example.
The 34-year-old did, however, manage to add some of her own whimsical touches, such as living plants and a plush monkey doll that she said belonged to her "boyfriend."
She joked, "No, just kidding," and said that her brother James Duggar, who is 23 years old, had given it to her. "He surprised me one day, like, 'Jana, I got you something. I got you a little friend!'"
Although Jana did not clarify if she was in a relationship, the former TLC star recently gave rise to rumors of a possible engagement after being spotted in South Carolina with a silver ring on her left hand.
But throughout her house tour, the jewelry was nowhere to be found.
For what it's worth, Jana has made a point of keeping her romantic life private. "I feel like these days, probably one of the most common questions is, 'Am I in a relationship?'" she said in a 2020 episode of Counting On.
"It gets a little old sometimes," she said. Sometimes you kind of feel like, 'What, that's not the only thing in the world to talk about?'
