Counting On's Kendra Duggar says family is 'not known for swimming' one year after Grandma Mary's tragic drowning death

COUNTING On star Kendra Duggar said that the family is "not known for swimming" one year after Grandma Mary's tragic drowning death.

During Tuesday's episode of the TLC show, Joe's wife noted that the family doesn't have strong swimmers after Jinger and Jeremy shared that they were taking their daughter Felicity to swimming lessons.

Mary, the mother of Duggar patriarch Jim Bob, often appeared alongside her family on the TLC shows 19 Kids & Counting and Counting On.

She accidentally drowned and died at her home in Arkansas on June 9, 2019.

Joe sold his late grandmother's house for $428,000 in May 2020.

Jim Bob's niece Amy Duggar paid tribute to her late grandmother with a throwback photo on what would have been her 79th birthday.

Accompanied by a photo of the pair hugging, Amy wrote: "We are celebrating you today down here.. with Cracker Barrel, strawberry shortcake & shopping your absolute favorite on your birthday! I miss you every single day. Happy Birthday to my angel in Heaven."

Who are the Duggars and why are they famous?

The Duggars are a family of devout Baptists who shot to fame on 19 Kids and Counting on TLC.

The show frequently discussed values of purity, modesty and faith in God.

They were all raised in the family home in Tontitown, Arkansas.

The Duggars avoid birth control, saying they have decided to allow God to determine the number of children they have.

All of the children are homeschooled, and access to entertainment such as movies and television is limited.

They practice chaperoned courtship, in which a couple becomes acquainted only in a group setting.

Kendra's comment came after Jinger, 26, admitted that she isn't a strong swimmer and is now properly learning.

Jinger said: "I have a friend who's been teaching me how to swim and so she learned from an instructor like how to teach her kids and so she's been teaching me."

In a separate interview, Jim Bob, 55, said: "Our oldest set of kids, they learned how to swim and took swimming lessons. And then the younger kids have all gotten a lot of time swimming at a house that we owned for a while that had a swimming pool in the backyard.

"But there's probably some in the middle that we just didn't do that much swimming."

Michelle, 53, said the middle kids didn't have the "opportunities" to swim while growing up.

The Duggar matriarch added: "There's a few of them that probably don't just feel really comfortable getting in the water."

Jessa, 27, said that she's "a terrible swimmer," adding: "I can swim, but I look like I'm just in survival mode. Like trying not to die. Trying not to drown."

Meanwhile, Joy-Anna, 22, admitted: "I can't swim. I can probably swim to save my life, but other than that, like I can't swim."

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