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Anna Duggar is all but unrecognizable — and that’s no hyperbole.
With her disgraced husband Josh safely rotting in prison, actual Anna photos have been few and far between.
The latest glimpse of the former TLC star is so dramatically different that she looks like a whole different person.
In fact, some are speculating that this dramatic makeover is a sign that she’s ditching — or at least rethinking — cult rules. The same cult rules that keep her from divorcing her evil husband.
Is that really Anna Duggar? (Yes)
19 Kids and Counting alum Anna Duggar is virtually unrecognizable. And we mean that.
Sometimes, “unrecognizable” on social media translates to a slightly updated look.
In Anna’s case, she’s undergone such a drastic transformation that her own fans admitted that they wouldn’t have known who she was.
On Monday, November 17, Hilltop Nutrition in San Mateo, Florida shared an Instagram post.
The caption reads: “Fueled by tea and sister love. Happy Monday, friends!”
Believe it or not, this photo depicts Anna alongside three of her sisters.
Yes, really.
Second from the left, Anna is holding out a cup of tea.
And yes, her hair is platinum blonde.
Photos of Anna are pretty rare these days. Seeing her with blonde hair is giving fans whiplash — in particular because this kind of makeover might not fly in various fundamentalist circles.
Fans and critics alike were beside themselves
Commenters on Instagram, on Reddit, and beyond all marveled at Anna Duggar and her platinum blonde looks.
“I barely recognized her, which was probably why she went blonde tbh,” one commenter observed.
“If OP didn’t tell me who this was, I wouldn’t have realized it was her,” confessed a redditor.
That same Reddit denizen added: “If I look really close, I might say ‘that girl kinda looks like [Anna Duggar].’”
Another marveled: “It took me so long to find her!!! Looks way different.”
Some people struggle with facial recognition. But even people who excel at recognizing features may have struggled with this one.
You don’t need to be face blind to do a double take when someone changes something as drastic as their hair.
But Anna has taken this to a new level. Even knowing that Anna is in the pic, we had to zero in on each woman’s face to confirm that it was her.
Part of it is that Anna has been a brunette since, well, always. She has natural brown hair and always has.
The other issue is that she is a fundamentalist from a fundamentalist family, and married into another fundamentalist family. Dying her hair blonde is … not impossible, but decidedly unorthodox.
Doesn’t a platinum blonde dye job violate some of those pesky Duggar rules?
A couple of Duggars, like Jill and Jinger, have experimented with dying their hair blonde.
But then, Jinger occasionally drinks alcohol with her husband, and Jill both has a nose ring and speaks out against her awful father. Those, too, are no-nos within the cult that raised them.
Anna Duggar, on the other hand, has been a fanatical adherent. In 2015, the world learned that Josh had cheated on her and that he had, as a teenager, molested five young girls — including four of his own sisters.
She stayed with him. And again, after his arrest, conviction, and lengthy prison sentence for acquiring horrific child sex-abuse material (CSAM0, Anna refused to divorce him.
Is her new hair a sign that she’s rethinking (or, seriously thinking for the first time) some of these strict rules? Or is it an anomaly and not part of a trend of her making her own choices for the first time in her life?
Anna Duggar UNRECOGNIZABLE After Dramatic Makeover While Josh Rots in Prison was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.