Jessa Duggar-Seewald is so happy these days. She was able to maneuver herself away from the Duggar family and somehow, against all odds, she and Jill are getting their own TLC specials. This was always part of Jessa’s endgame – she was SO MAD that Josh Duggar destroyed the reality show and chica really, really does not want to get a job or pay for her own baby stuff. So why not get the “fans” and TLC to pick up the tab? So, Jessa sat down for an exclusive with Entertainment Tonight about her upcoming TLC special and it’s sort of blah blah blah, although there is a detail from a “source” about how Josh, obviously, will not be appearing on Jill and Jessa’s specials.

Jessa Seewald is “looking forward” to returning to TLC in a new special, the 22-year-old reality star told fans on Saturday at the Southern Women’s Show in Orlando, Florida: “We’re going to be doing some filming preparing to welcome this little one into our lives,” the third-eldest Duggar daughter said of the recently-announced special that will follow her and husband Ben as they prepare to welcome their first child in November. “It’s gonna be great.”

TLC is also planning another special around Jessa’s older sister Jill and her husband Derick Dillard. Cameras will follow the couple as they raise their infant son Israel and carry out mission work in Central America.

“We know that our audience is really excited about what’s been going on with Jill and Jessa as they move into young adulthood,” TLC Executive Vice President and General Manager Nancy Daniels told the Associated Press last week. “Now they’re both at the precipice of big changes. With what was happening in their lives in the next few months, it felt like now is the time (for the specials), and we got going pretty quickly.”

Josh Duggar has not been seen in the public eye since checking into rehab, and a source close to the family told ET that the eldest Duggar will not be seen or mentioned on his sisters’ new specials.

“It may be an elephant in the room if they don’t mention it, but this [is] about Jessa and Jill,” the source said. Jessa and Jill, 24, were recently featured in Breaking the Silence, a TLC special about child sexual abuse. “It is going to take a long time before we forgive,” a source told ET of how the family is dealing with the recent drama. “We are all still hurt. Josh is still in rehab, nobody is warm and fuzzy to him yet. It still feels like he is a stranger.”

[From Entertainment Tonight]

I’m actually sort of concerned with Jessa in particular and her single-minded insistence on going back to some kind of reality show or reality special programming. Jessa is easily one of the most popular Duggars, but it does seem like the jig is up with this family and I wonder if there’s really going to be that much interest in Jessa’s special. And after all that, what happens if no one really cares? What will Jessa do then?

Oh, and here’s something that will be part of Jessa’s TLC special: she’s planning on a home birth. A lot of the Duggar women do that, although Jill had a really difficult birth and she was hospitalized for several days. Jessa does say that she has a “Plan B” which involves hospitalization just in case.

Also, over the weekend, Ben and Jessa appeared at the Southern Women’s Show in Orlando, and things kept getting awkward. First, Ben and Jessa played the Newlywed Game and Ben admitted that it took him months to fall in love with Jessa (she thought it was love at first sight). And one photographer went off script and asked Jessa about Josh, to which she only responded with silence and a creepy smile. Oh, well. At least people are paying attention to her. That’s what she wanted.

Photos courtesy of the Duggars’ Facebook.