[3] Seewald began her public life as a member of the family featured in the documentary 14 Children and Pregnant Again (2004), on the Discovery Health Channel.

[11][12] Seewald was born in Tontitown, Arkansas USA, as the fifth child and the third daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children.

[15] In a June 2015 interview on The Kelly File, Seewald identified herself as one of the girls sexually abused by her oldest brother, Josh Duggar, when he was a teenager.

While Seewald described the abuse as "very wrong," she decried those referring to her brother as a "child molester" or a "pedophile" or a "rapist", saying, "that is so overboard, and a lie, really."

Regarding the police reports describing the abuse while she was a minor being released to the media, Seewald said, "the system that was set up to protect kids...it's greatly failed.