The 19 Kids and Counting<\/a> alum and her husband, Ben Seewald<\/a>, are the latest guests on the Unplanned Podcast<\/a> with Matt and Abby Howard<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a preview<\/a> of this week’s episode, released on Tuesday, Oct. 27, Jessa appears to shock Matt and Abby as she says, “We’re actually expecting again.”<\/p>\n “What?” says Matt.<\/p>\n “Yeah, six weeks pregnant with number seven,” responds Jessa. PEOPLE has reached out to her representative for comment.<\/p>\n Jessa and Ben have six children<\/a>: sons Spurgeon Elliot<\/a>, 10; Henry Wilberforce<\/a>, 9; George Augustine<\/a>, 2; Edward Owen<\/a>, 1; and daughters Ivy Jane<\/a>, 7, and Fern Elliana<\/a>, 5.<\/p>\n She announced the arrival of her sixth baby in a birth vlog posted to her YouTube channel,<\/a> in August 2025, revealing that her mom, Michelle Duggar<\/a>, was by her side.<\/p>\n Before Edward Owen’s arrival, she responded to negative remarks from commenters about her growing family<\/a>.<\/p>\n “When it comes to people saying negative opinions, I know this is not the case for everyone, but for me personally, I’ve never had anybody walk up to my face and be nasty,” Jessa said in a YouTube video titled “Baby #6 Q&A + My Morning Routine<\/a>,” posted in May 2025. “I have heard a lot of rude and unnecessary comments, but generally those are just online.”<\/p>\n In her response, she also addressed a comment claiming that she and Seewald are “trying to follow in [her] mom’s footsteps.”<\/p>\n Jessa Duggar Seewald and Ben Seewald with their six kids “I’m not going to have 19 kids, but honestly, my mom is my hero. I love her. I adore her [and] she is my role model in so many ways,” she said. “Her patience, her love, her gentleness [and] her kind speech. She is the golden example of a mother, in my opinion. So, when people say, ‘Do you want to be like your mother?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, please, Lord, help me.’ “<\/p>\n Having a big family was already on Jessa’s mind before her Nov. 1, 2014 wedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n “We both want to have a big family,” she told PEOPLE ahead of the ceremony<\/a>. “We are talking about our goals and the future with family. We have both talked about adoption and want to adopt, too.”<\/p>\n![\"Jessa](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/a623eabadeaa08d71bd4b17bb89c9d14.jpg\"\/)
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