May 07, 2021 - 18:29 BST Rebecca Lewis Jinger Duggar has opened up on her decision to begin wearing pants, a marked contrast to the way she was brought up.
"My mom had always dressed us girls in skirts and dresses, a standard that was taken from Deuteronomy 22:5, which says, 'A woman shall not wear a man's garment,' and I never really questioned it," Jinger has now shared in her autobiography, The Hope We Hold.Loading the player... var track=function { dataLayer.push; }; var playerInstance=playerInstance || []; playerInstance['knPoI5im']=jwplayer; playerInstance['knPoI5im'].
Studying scripture, Jinger said she realised that her"convictions were changing" and that"biblical modesty is deeper and more profound than wearing skirts instead of pants." Jinger then chose to follow her heart and faith how she saw fit, but acknowledged that she was worried how her parents may take her choices."I knew they deeply cared about their convictions, and I didn't want to hurt them now that I didn't share those convictions," she wrote.Jinger is not the only Duggar to have broken away from their parents' beliefs