#jill duggar

[one-time-i-dreamt]

f*ck Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, they have so much to answer for

imagine treating your daughter, who was a victim of your disgusting abuser son, worse than said disgusting abuser son, just because she dares to call you out and has a nose ring

[spurgie-cousin]

Something of my faves from Olivia Plath's latest Q&A

A Jill Duggar mention AND a Fundie Fridays cameo, I'm obsessed‼️

[wtffundiefamilies]

[theunstuffedpepper]

Has anyone else read Counting the Cost? I’m only 10% into it but already kinda like ehhhh. I’ll probably stick with it but man. What a wild story.

[norahsinfinitecommonplace]

"You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren’t automatically erased or invalidated by the lows." - Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

[letsdocuboutit]

- Let's Docu 'Bout It -

Episode 8 - Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (Part One)

This week I recap and talk about the Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People, a docuseries that exposes the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of reality tv's favorite mega-family, The Duggars, and the radical organization behind them, The Institute in Basic Life Principles. As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they're part of an insidious, much larger threat already in motion. Part One recaps Episode 1: Meet the Duggars and Episode 2: Growing Up Gothard.

Listen here or wherever you listen to podcasts!

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Safe Passage

Prevent Child Abuse America

[duggarsetal]

fundie facebook is real weird

one post, talking about the documentary (!!!) has loads of comments talking about how they hate that the Dillards are taking part

people saying "I'm not gonna watch it" because they're involved

And I don't get it?

a) its not explicitly about the duggars, but about iblp - and you know who tends to have the best insight into a cult? the former members of that cult

b) there's other former members of iblp talking as well, so if the Dillards view doesn't match up with them, then it'll be quite clear

c) you do get that any journalist worth their salt is gonna cast as wide a net as possible? Of course, they would want to speak to one of the duggars

d) THE GROWTH. jill has shown an exceptional amount of growth over the past ten years.

This is jill around 10 years ago (2014)

Gearing up to release a Gothard-approved book, alongside her sisters, all about the IBLP way to live your life

For her to change so much that she's now actively speaking out against both IBLP and her family's involvement in it, why the hell would you not be interested in what she has to say?

[fundiefuntimes]

Finished. I have lots of thoughts. Mostly I am proud of Jill, this book took so much courage.

[perezhilton]

😢

[ninasbookshelf]

february 2024 reading wrap-up

happy leap year! here's what i read during the past month:

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup by Jean Godfrey-June

DNFs (aka books I decided not to finish):

Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Vuolo

i might do a longer post on Jill Duggar and Jinger Vuolo's books, so keep an eye out for that if you're interested! i'll tag it with their names and book titles.

[thisbibliophiile]

Books of 2025 #8

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

[bqbecke]

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar: B Reviews Books

Jill Duggar Dillard's debut memoir did not disappoint. In fact, it was much more gut wrenching, eye opening and well-done than I would have imagined.

For those who are unaware, Jill Duggar Dillard is the fourth of the 19 children of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, the stars of 19 Kids & Counting and a variety of other TV specials. The family follows Bill Gothard's rendition of radical and conservative Christianity, known as the IBLP (Institute of Basic Life Principles). Some basic rules include:

no hugging before marriage (or anything else for that matter)

mum and dad have their noses in your business at all times

no formal education

no dancing (??)

extremely modest clothing (we're talking Amish-style here)

& one million more little rules that do not make sense to me as an agnostic/atheist

Jill's memoir details her life from the very beginning as Sweet Jilly Muffin, the obedient and "perfect" daughter who did whatever her father and the IBLP required of her, through being parentified as a "buddy" for her younger siblings as a young teen, to becoming an unpaid reality TV star who did it all for the sake of "ministry" and finally, meeting her now-husband Derick under the watchful eye of her father, Jim Bob, who she refers to as Pops throughout the book.

Mild spoilers here, but in Jill's memoir, you will hear about all of the horrors of her young life, ranging from relatively mild and sad (eating beans for dinner because her parents did not have enough money and too many mouthes to feed) to absolutely heart wrenching (being molested by her older brother, who she then had to go onto national television to defend his "honour"), and a thousand more things in between.

Now confession time: I used to religiously watch 19 Kids & Counting and Counting On until I was in my mid-twenties. Jill and I are born a few months apart, so I always connected with her. Reading this book felt like reading the diary of a friend, and it was just as disturbing as you can imagine.

A big surprise for me in this book was how much I ended up liking Derick. On the show, he seemed to be a bit of a goof, and he posted some pretty nasty things on Twitter many moons ago, which he now seems to have redacted or changed his mind about. But reading through this... It seems like he is one of the most level-headed people involved in this sad wreck of a familial situation. And he had the guts to stand up to Jim Bob. A win in my opinion.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. If any of the other siblings were to put out a similar tell all (Jinger's I won't read because she talks no shit about her father, who I believe is at least somewhat evil based on Jill's writing, which may or not be a fair assessment), I would not hesitate to buy it and read.

Sending Jill and her family so much love, and I hope they can continue to rebuild.

[lucky-girl-0128]

Jill Duggar Dillard and her Spouse Derick Dillard have finally written their Memoir “Counting the Cost” which will give fans new insight into her Growing up in the public eye for the 7 1/2 years that she was filming her courtship, engagement, marriage, birth of her first baby , to traveling to Central America for doing missionary work.

It’ll go into detail about the police report of her older brother Josh Duggar being released and how she tried to salvage what was left of the family’s brand back in June 3 , 2015 and how he tried to intimidate her and her Sister Jessa were doing the Megyn Kelly interview and how he watched them both with a hawks eye so that they say anything bad about him and it sounds like an intimidation tactic of his to silence his victims.

She also reveals her feelings about the IBLP and why she thinks it’s a cult.

From feeling the need to please everybody and obedient, to her coming out of the side of her painful past and letting her children go to public school and she’s embracing new changes for her family for a healthier future and family dynamic.

The book was released yesterday.

To make matters worse, Jessa announced her 5th pregnancy on the day when an excerpt of the memoir was released.

It Sounds like an attempt from Jessa Seewald to steal the spotlight from Jill and deflect from rifts within the family.

[rickchung]

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (prods. Olivia Crist & Julia Willoughby Nason).

Having nineteen children at all is probably child abuse alone. Never mind putting them all on television for profit and making sure none of them are educated except for the oldest son, whose sexual abuse of his own sisters you sweep under the rug until he becomes a convicted predator as an adult. Amazon's three-part docuseries delves into the multi-faceted cult-like elements of the Institute in Basic Life Principles Christian fundamentalist religious movement popularized by Jim Duggar's growing family seen (and exploited) on reality television. It's an exhaustively damning portrait of patriarchal abuse disguised as religious freedom.

[teamjanaduggar]

I see a lot of people speculating about it, both here on Tumblr and on Reddit. Speculation ranges from a perceived rift to Jim Bob not wanting Jill to be a bridesmaid.

Miscarriage trigger warning!

I personally would like to point out that not that long ago, Jill lost her baby girl Isla.

She seems absolutely devastated still (and rightfully so). Maybe there’s a rift, or maybe the sisters talked about it and both decided that Jill feels too fragile to have the spotlight on her this soon after having a stillbirth. I think it’s best not to speculate considering the circumstances for Jill.

Before anyone tries “but the spotlight is on the bride!”, yes but also on the bridesmaids. I’ve been one tens of times, there’s a lot of camera’s pointed at you. And usually - for me - the bridesmaids help organise the bachelorette and create decorations for the special day and help make the soon to be shared house a home.

If, as some of you think, Jill should have been a bridesmaid then there would have been a lot of attention on her and certain expectations that she’d help the bride.

looks like Jill was the only older sister that wasn’t a bridesmaid 😭