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Jinger Duggar Didn’t Learn to Swim as a Child Due to Strict Duggar Dress Code

Jinger Duggar was unable to learn to swim as a child because her family's cult rules on modesty made it impossible.

(Image Credit: YouTube)In her new book, People Pleaser: Breaking Free From the Burden of Imaginary Expectations, Jinger Duggar wrote about how she was not allowed to learn how to swim. (Image Credit: YouTube)In her book, Jinger added a tongue-in-cheek line that “the laws of physics, gravity and buoyancy don’t play well with long skirts.” (Photo Credit: YouTube)In some ways that the Duggar children themselves have not addressed — not in any vlog post, memoir, or documentary interview — growing up in a fundamentalist cult robbed them of many facets of personhood.

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