Duggar fans slam Jessa for giving daughter Ivy a ‘sad’ treat instead of a cake to celebrate her 3rd birthday

JESSA Duggar has been bashed for the birthday treat she gave her daughter, Ivy, to celebrate her special day.

The reality star's eldest daughter turned three years old last week.

Jessa snapped a pic of the birthday girl smiling behind a number three candle placed on top of a doughnut served on a paper plate.

In a second shot, she shared an adorable photo of Ivy dressed in a pink princess costume.

She gushed over her daughter in her post's caption, writing: "Ivy turned 3 this week, and we’ve had a wonderful time celebrating her and making her birthday wishes come true!

"She brings joy and laughter to our home every single day. I can barely remember what life was like before she was here with us! So thankful to God for this precious gift of Ivy Jane!"

, however, weren't impressed with the Counting On alum's treat for the birthday girl, calling the sugary breakfast "sad."

"So sad just a generic store bought donut on a cheap paper plate- aim high jessa," one critic commented.

"Doughnuts are great but I’m sorry this is just cheap and shows no effort. I see they still favour disposable plates too. Arkansas must have it’s own giant Duggar landfill," a second echoed the statement.

"Cheap and lacking in effort is Jessa in a nutshell," another agreed.

"If she had put in even 15 minutes of effort it could have been so cute and darling for her," chimed in a fourth.

"WHY a paper bowl though... learn to wash a ding dang dish!" another remarked.

BIRTHDAY GIRL

Fans previously couldn't get over how grown the youngster looked in the photos, sharing their astonishment in her Instagram comments.

“Three already, wow, happy birthday sweet girl,” one wrote.

Another asked: “But how is she already 3 now?”

A third commented: “She’s as beautiful as her mother” while one described Ivy as Jessa’s “mini-me.”

Another person: “Goodness me, that’s gone so quickly. Happy birthday sweetheart.”

Jessa, 29, shares Ivy with her husband, Ben Seewald, 27.

The couple are also parents to sons Spurgeon, six, Henry, five, and a baby daughter, Fern.

COURTSHIP

Jessa and Ben's eight-year marriage has come under question recently after a video resurfaced on social media of the pair's courtship days.

One user reshared an old clip on  from 19 Kids & Counting, which initially aired in May 2017, showing the reality star discussing her love language style with her mom Michelle Duggar, 55.

In the video, the family matriarch treated Jessa to a coffee to discuss her courtship at the time with Ben.

"I am in a courtship with a wonderful man named Ben Seewald, and we've been courting for about four months now," the TV personality explained in a confessional.

"It's been good. I'm missing him, though," Jessa told her mom as the cameras switched back to the café.

"So he's like super-emotional like a feeling kind of person and I'm really not, you know that," Jessa admitted.

She continued: "I'm kind of just like, cut and dry, and so he's always texting me like the sweetest things.

"He's like 'If I had all the flowers in the world, all the rose gardens in the world I'd give them all to you.'

"And I'm like 'Uh, where would I put em?'"

Michelle then offered some relationship advice to her daughter, saying: "Even though I know that typically you just are real, you know, plain and simple about things, you probably should say something like 'Oh Ben, that is so sweet, oh thank you!'"

"However he expresses love is probably the way that he receives it as well. And on your part, you probably will practice learning how to express that love language that he needs to hear from you to him. And it's a learning process," she added.

FANS' COMMENTS

But fans were appalled by the scene, as they claimed the couple might not have been the right fit due to their differing personalities.

"This is gross. They act like Jessa has some kind of defect. There is nothing wrong with being direct and not demonstrative. This is why these people need to stop marrying the first person they meet," one ranted.

"They needed time to find out if their personalities complemented each other or not. If Ben needed someone to reciprocate his romantic personality, he deserved that. If Jessa can't do that for him, she deserved someone who fit her better too," the user explained.

"She would’ve had much more fun with someone Who also had a dry sense of humor and could push her, intellectually I mean. I don’t mean someone mean and sarcastic, but just someone who would get her. I think she’s lost a lot of herself in marriage," a second agreed.

A third noted: "She could have been more tactful in her response, but yeah, this was clearly a sign that they were not a good match. It's sad that they encouraged her to double down and change her personality rather than end the courtship."

Jessa and Ben tied the knot in 2014 in a church ceremony in their home state of Arkansas.

The wedding aired on 19 Kids and Counting the following year.