As we mentioned on Wednesday, Jessa Duggar-Seewald and her husband Ben cover this week’s issue of People Magazine. The cover interview is interesting, if you like reading about Evangelical cults and the rare women trying to break free of said cult’s misogynistic shackles. Jessa and Ben told People that they plan to adopt and that they’re already doing the paperwork for an adoption. This struck me as odd, mostly because Ben and Jessa are both young and presumably healthy, and they both were raised to believe that baby-making is the most important thing for a young family. So why isn’t Jessa pregnant already? They’ve been married for nearly four months and there’s still no pregnancy announcement. Well, Star Magazine has a theory: Jessa is on birth control!! OMG.

With 19 kids, three grandchildren and three in-laws, the Duggar family was bound to get a wild child. Star has learned that Jessa Duggar may be defying her ultraconservative Christian family by secretly using birth control! “Jessa and [husband] Ben [Seewald] are definitely active in the bedroom,” says a source, “so it’s suspicious she hasn’t gotten pregnant yet.”

While Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar believe they should happily accept as many children as God will give them without interfering, sources say Jessa, the most rebellious daughter, is nowhere near ready to be a parent, and is taking the necessary steps to make sure that doesn’t happen. “She wants to enjoy being a wife for a while,” reveals the insider. “She’s not like her siblings. She doesn’t feel any pressure to get pregnant.”

Indeed, Jessa’s sister, Jill, who wed Derick Dillard in June, is expecting a son who was conceived on their honeymoon. In a strange twist, Jim Bob and Michelle have admitted to using birth control at the beginning of their 30-year marriage. But after Michelle became pregnant while on the pill and suffered a miscarriage, the couple blamed the oral contraceptive for “aborting” their baby and have been against it ever since.

But Jessa and Ben seem to be carving their own path away from their restrictive families. “Jessa lived under her father’s rules for her entire life,” a family insider explains. “She would never tells her parents she’s on birth control because she doesn’t want to disappoint them, but she’s making her own rules now. It’s her life and she and Ben will have a child when they decide the time is right.”

[From Star Magazine]

First the harlot front-hugs a boy. Then she French kisses him. Then she goes on birth control! What is the world coming to, allowing a young woman to control her own reproductive choices? Doesn’t Jessa know that her religion and political party considers the birth control pill to be “slut pills”???

Meanwhile, People Mag released more of their cover story with Jessa and Ben. This new excerpt – go here to read – includes Jessa and Ben’s marriage advice. Apparently, Ben comes to Jessa when he thinks she’s irritated by something, which is also weird because she isn’t supposed to be irritated by anything unless her husband tells her she’s allowed to be irritated. They also suggest not giving your partner the silent treatment and how to work on a family budget.

Photos courtesy of People Magazine, Jessa’s Facebook.