Eighteen siblings are a lot to keep up with, and Joy-Anna Forsyth (née Duggar) is getting candid about the struggle of maintaining those relationships.

“It’s hard,” the 19 Kids and Counting alum, 27, told sister Jinger Vuolo (née Duggar) on her and husband Jeremy Vuolo’s eponymous podcast on Wednesday, March 19. “I live, probably, 35-ish minutes from everybody that lives in Arkansas. It’s definitely hard to keep up with all the siblings because … if we had one sibling over [for] a week, it would take 19 weeks to get through everybody. That’s a lot of time that goes by.”

While Jinger, 31, and Joy-Anna are two of 19 children born to Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, many of the older siblings have gotten married and had children of their own, expanding the clan even more.

“I think we naturally connect with some more than others,” Joy-Anna said. “Whether we go to church together, we’ll see them or whatever, and then some of us, I’m just really close to a couple of the sisters-in-law, so we see each other quite a bit [and] working out together.”

Thankfully, the Counting On alum said that her siblings all seem to agree that it’s OK to see each other only every once in a while.

“It is harder to stay connected to everybody, but I feel like we all have a good expectation for everybody. We don’t feel pressure, like, ‘We have to do this together’ or, ‘I haven’t talked to this person this week,’” Joy-Anna continued. “I have my own family to take care of, and so it’s hard to balance how much do I reach out [and] how much do I not. I want to spend time with all of the siblings.”

Joy-Anna and husband Austin Forsyth are busy parents to kids Gideon, 7, Evelyn, 4, and Gunner, 22 months. They’ve also found some close friends in their community.

“We do have our church family and a lot of close friends now,” the mom of three said. “Now that we’ve grown our community over the last few years, we don’t see the family as much as we used to just ‘cause we’re busy and then we try and safeguard a few days just for us a week.”

Despite their often chaotic life, Joy-Anna said that she and Austin, 31, try to have one of her siblings over to their house “once every six months.”

“We’ll rotate, so every six months, we’ll have, whatever, Joe and Kendra [Duggar] over or we’ll have another sibling over, or we’ll go to their house,” she explained. “It’s definitely hard because we all have our own friend groups, church or birthday parties. … It’s not, like, we all hang out all the time.”

One sibling that Joy-Anna has proven she’s quite close with is Jinger, who is expecting baby No. 3 with Jeremy, 37. The couple is also the proud parents of Felicity, 6, and Evangeline, 4.

Joy-Anna and her family have visited Jinger, Jeremy and their kids in California every year around this time.

“We visit Jinger and Jeremy like in January, February, March [every year],” Joy-Anna explained in a January 2024 Q&A. “It just kind of happened that way, like our schedule is more open in the winter so we go visit them. I guess it’s just become a tradition.”

The TV personality also said that she even considered moving to California to be closer to her sister.

“This is the first trip, not that we’re ever gonna move there probably, but this is the first time where I was like, ‘I mean I could see us living here if that’s where God moved us.’ It was so good to be with her and just have some quality time and catch up on life, but I don’t know if we would ever actually move there,” she shared at the time.