Jill Dillard (née Duggar) is ready to tell her story.
The 32-year-old TLC alum released her tell-all memoir, Counting the Cost, on Tuesday (September 12), which tells the story of her life with her family, the Duggars, and their experience filming 19 Kids and Counting.
The memoir follows her appearance alongside husband Derick Dillard in Prime Video’s Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, a four-part documentary series released in June.
Jill Duggar Dillard was the only of the 19 Duggar children to participate in the new docuseries, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.
Now she is releasing a book with her husband Derick Dillard, “Counting the Cost”, which goes in-depth into their “painful journey” as part of the reality-show-filming Duggar family.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are breaking their silence on the new docu-series about their family and religion.
Prime Video’s new docu-series titledShiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets will be exposing 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, with democracy itself in peril.
Jim Bob and Michelle‘s daughter Jill Duggar Dillard participated in the docu-series to share her experiences with the family’s strict and religious upbringing.
On Thursday night (June 1), Jim Bob and Michelle shared a statement slamming the docu-series.
Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is coming soon to Prime Video and it’s attempting to explore the world of the Duggar family and the religion they follow, the Institute in Basic Life Principles.
Here’s the official synopsis: Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is a limited docuseries exposing 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, with democracy itself in peril.
If there’s one thing fans know about the Duggar family from 19 Kids and Counting it’s that the kids often get engaged very young.
News just broke this week that Justin Duggar, 18, is engaged to Claire Spivey, 19. Well, one curious fan asked Jill Duggar, 29, why her family members continue to get engaged so young.
Jill’s husband Derick took the reigns and revealed the real reason…and it might be a little too much info!
Click through the gallery of this post to see what Derick said about why the Duggars get engaged and married so young, and see how Jill reacted…
Jill Duggar has announced that she has left her family’s reality television empire of Counting On.
The 29-year-old mom, and the second born daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, revealed in an interview that she had begun to distance herself from her family.
“I never expected this to happen or for it to get to this point,” she shared with People this week. “But I’m realizing I can’t put a timeline on healing. I love my family and they love me. I really just have to follow God’s lead and take it one day at a time.”
Jill added that her and husband Derick Dillard‘s “control to choose what jobs we were allowed to accept and even where we were allowed to live was taken away from us.”
He continued, “The first few years of our marriage, we spent time and money working towards opportunities only to hit a dead end when we’d be told, ‘Well, you’re not allowed to do that.’”
Since leaving, Jill has pulled away even more as she tasted her first drink of alcohol and also began to wear jeans, which her other sisters are not doing.
Now though, Jill and Derick have sought out legal advice in order to obtain the finances they say that they were not paid for Counting On.
According to Jill, her dad is the primary payee for the flagship show, 19 Kids & Counting, and then again for Counting On. The payout for him was around $25,000 to $45,000 per episode paycheck.
She says that she didn’t receive any compensation until she quit the show in 2017.
“That’s when we got an attorney involved and finally recovered some of the money,” Jill shared. “It was a process.”
Derick adds that the money they did receive was only a “little more than minimum wage” in a recent video.
Watch their full video where they explain their decision to leave further:
