It's no secret to reality TV fans that the shows they enjoy can be edited and pieced together to build a cohesive storyline. But according to Jinger Vuolo, who grew up as part of her family's variety of TV specials and eventually a total of 21 seasons of two different TLC series, those edits don't always go over well with the people in the shows.
On a recent episode of the Jinger & Jeremy Podcast she does with her husband, Jeremy Vuolo, Jinger said that there were times that her family would watch episodes of their TLC reality shows 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, only to see that something had been edited in a way that the family wasn't exactly happy with.
"Maybe we felt like some things might have started to be cut in a way that we didn’t like it," Jinger said on the podcast episode. She gave an example of the camera crew catching her rolling her eyes and then splicing it in after a clip of one of her parents saying something and said that she would see it in the episode and be upset because that wasn't how the conversation had gone during filming.
"I rolled my eyes in an interview they put in there next to something I said about my mom and dad,. And it was like, ‘No I didn’t mean that,'" she recalled on her podcast when reacting to an old episode of her family's reality show.
According to Jinger, her family would watch the "rough cuts" of the show before it was fully edited and ready for TV, then watch the version that aired to see the differences and see if anything was edited or changed from the version they approved.
"It’s like our home videos really because so many years before it came out my parents were really good about taking home videos of those," Jinger said about re-watching old episodes of the show that focused on family vacations.
The reality star, who grew up in front of the cameras as one of 19 children, said that the show was originally just a look into their real life and felt like home movies, but eventually became "fully produced" and the authentic glimpse into the life of the large family "faded into the background" due to the network choosing to air edited, TV-friendly episodes instead.