'Loving on my little niece': Pregnant Jessa Duggar posts picture of herself holding disgraced brother Josh's newborn daughter

She defended her brother on television after it emerged he had molested her as a child.

And now Jessa Duggar has posted a picture of herself holding Josh's new daughter Meredith Grace.

The pregnant reality television personality, 22, looked delighted to be holding the latest addition to her gigantic family.

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Happy: Jessa Seewald posted an image of herself holding her disgraced brother Josh Duggar's newborn daughter on Tuesday

Happy: Jessa Seewald posted an image of herself holding her disgraced brother Josh Duggar's newborn daughter on Tuesday

She captioned the image she uploaded on Tuesday: 'Loving on my little niece!'

Meredith is the first of the Josh's four children not to have her birth documented by camera crews. Josh announced her birth on Instagram on July 19 and she is his fourth child with wife Anne. Their other children are Mackynzie, five, Michael, four, and two-year-old Marcus.

TLC officially announced that it was canceling the reality series 19 Kids And Counting following the revelations about Josh fondling underage girls including sisters Jill and Jessa when he was a teen.

Filming on the show has been suspended since TLC pulled reruns from its network in May.

Jessa defended her brother and her parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar during an interview with Fox News's Megyn Kelly. 

She said: 'My parents ... I can see looking back [that] my parents handled this very well.

Parents: Josh Duggar and wife Anna posed with their newborn daughter during a public dinner outing

Parents: Josh Duggar and wife Anna posed with their newborn daughter during a public dinner outing

'They sent Josh away, they had him get help. When he came back he was a totally different person.

'He was repentant whenever he left. When he came back, I could see he had made life changes.'

Jessa, who is due to have her first child with husband Ben Seewald in November, also said she has come to terms with what happened and forgiven her brother.

She said: 'I was angry at first, I was like "How could this happen?" And then you know my parents explained to us what happened and then Josh came and asked each of us, individually, I know he asked me to forgive him.

'And I had to make that choice to forgive him, you know? It wasn't something that somebody forced, like, "Oh, you need to do this." You have to make that decision for yourself.'

Cancelled: 19 Kids And Counting was axed by TLC after the revelations about Josh emerged

Cancelled: 19 Kids And Counting was axed by TLC after the revelations about Josh emerged

 

 

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