Josh Duggar's sleazy jailhouse letters to wife Anna reveal explicit sexual fantasies and pleas for risque photos

Josh Duggar’s correspondence with his wife Anna reveals a shocking number of explicit messages while he was in jail awaiting his 2022 conviction for possessing child sexual abuse materials.

The 38-year-old former reality star, whose appeal to be freed or retried hinges on a technicality, is now scheduled for release in February 2033 from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Seagoville in Texas.

Federal authorities said Duggar - father to seven children with Anna, 37 - had amassed 'images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, including images of prepubescent children and depictions of sadistic abuse.'

Prior to that, Duggar’s past molestation of five young girls in the early 2000s - four of his sisters and a babysitter - led to the swift cancellation of the family’s TLC series in 2015.

Now, messages sent to Anna around the time of his arrest have been obtained by People, offering a graphic look at his sexual fantasies and desires for provocative snaps.

In many, Duggar repeatedly requested photos, begging Anna to send him pictures in her 'bra and panties' featuring her 'twos in it' and telling her, 'your sexy cleavage is amazing.'

In one message, Duggar wrote: '[I] miss you my lover. i miss being in the shower with you scrubbing, i miss watching you try on clothes, i miss watching you being sexy.'

He also congratulated Anna for 'making the scale numbers lower than expected' and suggested she treat herself to 'something low cut.'

Josh continued: '[O]r you can try on clothes and send me a pic of you in your bra and panties ;) or try on "go to the private pool for sun" swimsuit? btw you should order you a 2-piece swimsuit since summer is coming on soon, get something hot and fun.'

A few days later, he added: 'p.s. - send pics asap as requested, imlied (sic), inferred or otherwise stated lol. nice one(s) with your twos in it! (OvO).'

A week later, Josh complained that only one picture had arrived, ending the message with: 'p.s. - i cant (sic) wait till we can be alone again. i miss ALL of you! what specificially (sic) are you thinking/dreaming/fantasizing about today that you miss? i miss you and me being US! tell me later? :O'

Just days before his sentencing, he wrote that he had 'some great ideas of what we could be doing,' including 'a really awesome foot rub,' 'a back rub' or 'something relaxing.'

He added: 'And then we could really have some fun ... once we were nice and relaxed! So many memories flooding my mind right now.'

Duggar also continued to request pictures from Anna, telling her in one message: 'your sexy cleavage is amazing! thank you for thinking of me!'

He suggested they could ‘take things up a notch’ and wrote: 'The intensity is off the charts! you are amazing. you are fun! You are gorgeous, sexy, and beautiful - all in one! you are my precious, lovely bride. my lover. my passion. my dream girl! 

'I am yours and thank you for being mine! I LOVE ALL OF YOU ANNA!'

The messages come just a week after a previously released one had Duggar complaining about being 'cut' from his family's reality show, saying nobody supported him after it was revealed he molested four of his sisters in 2015.

The disgraced 19 Kids and Counting star wrote to his mother, Michelle Duggar, from jail, stating that he and his wife Anna were 'devastated' by how the family handled the scandal, according to People.

He said that 'no one banded together to stand with us' and that they were 'kept at arm's length by most of the family' and 'cut off from public view on tv.'

Duggar also asked his mother to 'please consider your role and change so that other children are not in the same situations later.'

Though his parents, Michelle and Jim Bob, admitted he molested his sisters, he was never charged over the accusations. 

While Duggar - who is the oldest of 19 siblings - acknowledged that his mother supported him 'privately' following both incidents, he said it felt as 'if there were 18 kids and life went on.'

In the message to his mother, Duggar allegedly wrote: '[I]ts (sic) hard to be here while everyone is out going and doing. its (sic) especially hard in light of how things have been since may 2015 when everything was devastated for Anna and I.'

Though both of the family’s shows were cancelled by TLC due to Duggar's actions, he told his mother that 'the public statements and pr work to save shows and public images i feel were placed above family relationships' and added that he believes they 'still are to this day.'

He also said that she 'worr[ied] more about pr than anything else,' before adding, 'I am not trying to shift blame for anything, I am saying please consider your role and change so that other children are not in the same situations later.'

Duggar molested his four sisters and a babysitter between March 2002 and March 2003, when he was a teenager, according to a federal lawsuit they filed against the city of Springdale and Washington County in 2017.

In 2022, federal judge Timothy Brooks dismissed a lawsuit from the four sisters, who accused various Arkansas officials of violating their privacy by releasing documents from the molestation investigation. 

While Brooks sympathized with the sisters, he argued that they had not proven that police intentionally violated the law.

In his ruling, Brooks explained that the four sisters 'were sexually abused by their brother, Joshua' between March 2002 and March 2003, when he was 14 and 15 years old. 

The girls were between the ages of 5 and 11 during the alleged abuse. 

Brooks also oversaw Duggar's 2021 child pornography trial, in which prosecutors said he downloaded 600 photographs and seven videos of violent child sexual abuse.

Duggar's parents later said he had admitted to molesting his sisters and apologized privately after the allegations resurfaced. 

He publicly apologized months later for having cheated on his wife Anna, claiming he had been seeking treatment for an addiction to pornography.

A few months later, TLC premiered a new reality show about the large family titled Counting On, which did not feature Duggar or his wife. 

That show was cancelled in 2021 following Duggar's arrest on a federal charge of possessing child sexual abuse materials.

Notably, Duggar recently defended his younger brother Joseph, 31, following his arrest for alleged sexual abuse of a nine-year-old girl. 

'Josh understands the stigma of being accused,' his attorney told the Daily Mail. 'He lives with the painful reality of how false accusations can destroy a life. He understands how the targeting of a person for publicity can twist the truth into sensationalized fiction.'

The attorney added that although 'Josh and Joe are not in frequent communication,' the jailed brother 'hopes and prays for his brother's well being in this difficult time.'

Joseph, a married father of four, allegedly engaged in 'unlawful sexual activity' with the underage girl during a family vacation in 2020 at Panama City Beach, the Bay County Sheriff's Office in Florida said in a statement released after the arrest. 

He was later released on a $600,000 bond.