Since 19 Youngsters and Counting skyrocketed Jill Duggar into the highlight, she’s skilled loads of ups and downs along with her mother and father and siblings.
Followers first met the Duggars in 2008 when their TLC actuality collection, initially titled 17 Youngsters and Counting, premiered. The present highlighted the religious Baptist household’s day-to-day lives, from homeschooling to courtships. Nonetheless, the community suspended the collection in Could 2015 after it was revealed that Jill’s brother Josh Duggar had molested a number of women as a young person. One month later, Jill and her sister Jessa Duggar got here ahead as two of Josh’s victims.
Jill and Jessa, in addition to their respective husbands, Derick Dillard and Ben Seewald, returned for a by-product collection, titled Counting On, in 2015 after 19 Youngsters was formally canceled. Jill and Derick left the present in 2017. (TLC canceled Counting On in 2021 following Josh’s conviction for possessing baby pornography.)
“We had been prepared to depart and felt strongly about leaving. … There are positively some points there,” Jill solely instructed Us Weekly in February 2021. “We positively really feel like we’re in a wholesome place now for our household and have management over our lives. … Sure persons are extra supportive than others. I feel it ebbs and flows with a household of that dimension. Each household has drama and so once you’ve bought that many extra individuals giving opinions or no matter, it could possibly get loopy.”
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