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She Can't Even Get A Side Hug! Why Oldest Duggar Daughter Jana's Still Single As ANOTHER Baby Sister Gets Engaged
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Mar. 9 2017, Updated 4:58 p.m. ET
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Like clockwork! With every Duggar courtship and/or engagement announcement comes the infamous question: What’s up with Jana?
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The oldest Duggar girl, who’s 27-years-old, has remained single, while her younger sisters have continued to find love. And with the ninth oldest Duggar girl, Joy-Anna, recently getting engaged, many are asking, “Why can’t Jana find a man?”
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Well, the big reason may be that she’s the caretaker for her younger siblings and even some of their children!
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As previously reported, Jana has turned into the family’s Cinderella, and has been forced to always be on-call to care for her supersized family, including during her recent birthday week!
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While Jana admitted that it’s pretty weird she hasn’t found a proper suitor, she doesn’t blame her lack of courtship on her family.
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“It’s like this weird in-between stage. I’m not a younger one, but I’m not an older, married one with kids,” she revealed during an episode of Counting On. “It can be tempting like, ‘Oh, I really want to be married,’ because, in those moments, your siblings that are married and have little ones are going on dates and doing their thing,”
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“There have been different guys who have come along and asked, but they haven’t been, I don’t know, the right one,” Jana confessed, adding she had to be careful not to jump into a relationship too quickly.
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