Jinger Vuolo Talks About Weird Parts Of Growing Up In The Spotlight

“There were a lot of guys who came around, sometimes they would come visit the family or visit our church — that was a good in for some guys. They thought, ‘Oh, if I come to your church, that’s my in,'” she said.

“It just felt so bizarre because it’s like, ‘Who are you? I don’t know you,'” she added. “The relationship side of things wasn’t even there, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh look, I’ve been hanging out for a while and get to know your family and then we’ll see if anything happens’ … they would say to my family, my parents or something, ‘Oh yeah I’m so interested in your daughter.'”

Jinger Vuolo and her sisters received letters from men in prison

In the new podcast episode, Jinger talks about receiving love letters from men who were in prison. She says, “Guys would write from prison for my sisters. It was crazy. We constantly had letters coming in the mail and it was like, ‘Oh, who is it for this time? Oh it’s for Jana, oh it’s for Jessa’ … it was mind blowing just to think that somebody thought they would walk right into your life and marry you, like, they were already basically proposing in their letters.”

Then, she continues, “And they thought it was legit but looking at it, you know, I can understand how somebody would think, ‘Oh, I know you so well because I watched you from a child grow up,’ so they think that there’s a relationship there when there’s not. It’s like, a one-sided thing.”