DidFull House's Kimmy Gibbler Have Siblings? Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber Weigh in

Mar. 15, 2025

Adam Hagenbuch and Andrea Barber on the set of ‘Fuller House’.Photo:Adam Hagenbuch/ Instagram

Adam Hagenbuch/ Instagram

Kimmy Gibbler’s house seems to have been just as full as the Tanners’ — or was it?

As Barber noted, Kimmy doesn’t appear in the show’s pilot, but is mentioned when D.J. (Candace Cameron Bure) complains about having to share a bedroom with younger sister Stephanie (Sweetin). D.J. points out that her friend Kimmy has three sisters and still doesn’t have to share a room.

Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber in ‘Full House’ in 1993.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

While Kimmy would later become a fixture onFull House, her sisters never make an appearance. AsBustlenoted in 2016, at various points in the series, Kimmy claims to have no younger siblings, and in a season 7 episode mentions a ne’er-do-well brother, Garth, who also never appears on the show.

“Maybe he was adopted,” Sweetin, 42, suggested of Garth onHow Rude, Tanneritos!“Maybe the Gibblers took him in as an older teenager. Maybe the Gibblers were a foster family, and so they had a lot of kids coming in and out, but they called them, you know, siblings to really create a family dynamic. Maybe that’s what it was.”

Adam Hagenbuch in ‘Fuller House’.Netflix

Netflix

Setting aside the fact that Kimmy mentions not having younger siblings onFull House, Barber, 48, explained that Hagenbuch’s character’s name became a point of contention.

“So, when we went in to shootFuller Houseand they were going to introduce the character of Jimmy Gibbler, they said, ‘Oh, we’re so excited. We’re gonna have Jimmy Gibler!’ ” she said. “And I’m like, ‘Guys, no. The fans are going to lord this over me. I’m gonna get questions. I’m gonna get DMs. I’m gonna get emails for the rest of my life if you name him anything other than Garth!’ ”

Barber said that the reboot’s producers and writers were dead set on naming the character “Jimmy” to rhyme with “Kimmy.”

“I’m like, ‘Okay. Here we go,’ ” Barber recalled. “And I’m still hearing about it.”

Sweetin also recalled thatshe and Barber had already establishedthat Garth is Kimmy’solderbrother, as it’s mentioned inFull House’s second season that Garth was away in Reno but would return to San Francisco to collect his unemployment check.

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Adam Hagenbuch and Jodie Sweetin in ‘Fuller House’.Michael Yarish/Netflix/ Everett

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“So, he’s obviously older,” Sweetin explained. “So, Jimmy was younger, though, because Jimmy’s younger than me.”

Barber pointed out that Sweetin would know, as her character eventually married Jimmy inFuller House. “You married into the Gibbler family,” she joked. “So you have to know the family lore and the family tree, all of it.”

Still no word on those three phantom Gibbler sisters, though …

source: people.com