9 Things You Should Know about Anna Duggar

5. How She First Met Josh

In 2006, a teenage Anna met Josh at a Christian homeschooling convention, but she wasn’t allowed to divulge her feelings about him to her siblings. The only time she was allowed express herself was to her mother for a very short window of time. One insider says, “They always got 15-minute, one-on-one sessions with their mom every week. That was the time to share their feelings, but other than that they had to keep their feelings to themselves.” Josh recalled meeting Anna saying, “As we talked, I felt God speak to my heart that this was the girl I was going to marry someday!” Anna and Josh engaged in a short courtship visiting each others families for a few months, before he proposed on her 20th birthday in 2008. They were married just three months later on September 26, 2008.