For those who haven't heard, Jill (Duggar) Dillard announced in late May that she had written a book, slated to be released in January 2024. That news was released just before the docuseries Shiny Happy People debuted on Amazon. Just a couple weeks later, Jill shared that her publisher had decided to speed up the release date for her book by four months. Counting the Cost is now set to come out on September 12th, in less than seven weeks. The memoir is officially by "Jill Duggar with Derick Dillard and Craig Borlase." Borlase is an acclaimed ghostwriter.
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Jill Duggar's New Book Coming in September
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Jill did not have a voice or choice, as a child, whether to have her life broadcasted for the world to see. I'm happy for her that she has found both and can now tell her story.
ReplyDeleteI am super excited for this! I loved Jingers book.
ReplyDeleteI would be super excited to see them start businesses and make a living doing something positive instead of hurting others for an income! Good grief what kind of people have we become where hurting others is more profitable then doing something positive for a living!
DeleteIt’s their choice to share it or not. You don’t have to agree to it, but you should at least be respectful.
Delete@2:17 Jill is going through counseling. I'm sure she wouldn't have written a book if her counselor told her she would be a bad person for doing so. She's trying to heal from childhood trauma. Why not grant her that ability instead of accusing her of hurting someone just to make a quick buck?
Delete@2:17 Did you watch the documentary or read Jingers book? These women told their own stories, if that means they spilled some ugly family beans or exposed the wrongs of their parents....it's theirs to share. Megan Kelly was shameless making money from their stories...they have a right to expose what happened.
DeleteJinger's book was written in part to help those who were hurt in the same way she was by a man who led people away from Jesus and the Bible and pushed a self-reliant, fear-based religion of his own making. Her book is not at all an attack on her family.
Delete@12:50 But her family made her follow that man, so in a way, it is against her family. She may not have come right out and said it, but the friend of your enemy is also your enemy.
DeleteI feel so bad for Michelle and Jim Bob. As a parent I could not imagine putting all my love and hard work into raising my children and giving them a life of adventure and Godly upbringing and to turn around and have two of them write books saying they were raised in a cult and were terrorized and that I stole from them etc.etc. All them friends that were also invited to the holiday parties and birthday parties and weddings including the Bates must be wondering what is going on. Those two girls have been married for years now and still they can't hold jobs other then making money off of ripping apart their parents lives by writing books about the woes of their childhoods. Why these two girls can't get a legitimate job, one that doesn't hurt and slander their Mom and Dad is beyond me. I have zero respect for either one of them and wish there weren't so many posts about them as if they are special when they are actually profiting off of all the hate towards Jim Bob and Michelle online. So we celebrate this kind of stuff now???
ReplyDelete@10:22 Great victim shaming there. Great sugar-coating of what happened to the girls while they were being raised by these "Godly" parents. 10/10 in those departments.
DeleteI agree with you, 10:22 PM.
DeleteCompletely agree!!!
DeleteI think Jinger has been much kinder to her parents then Jill. Jill is just, well, mean spirited. Jinger at least made the disclaimer that her parents gave her a loving environment. I think her focus was less on her parents and more against Gothard. Not condoning her book. I disagree with alot of it, but i can almost guarantee you that when we get a chance to compare Becoming Free Indeed, to Jill's Counting the Cost, there will be an obvious difference in these two girls' attitudes towards their upbringing and parents. I think Jinger still has respect for her parents. Jill, I'm just not sure.
DeleteI can't imagine two parents helping their son versus their daughters who are victims.
Delete10:22 I do agree with every word. Feel exactly the same. Being on screen gave them all the opportunities they have! Jeremy would have never looked Jinger's way if not for her fame! Who would read their blogs, books, etc. if not for 19 kids and counting? They would have to work for a piece of bread as other people do!
DeletePart of being a parent, what goes around comes around.
DeleteHow anyone can feel sorry for JimBob and Michelle is beyond me.
DeleteThey shouldn't be silenced just for fear of 'hurting someones feelings'.
Delete2:59. My thoughts exactly. Well said
Delete9:19. I don’t find Jill mean or unkind in any way. She’s telling her life experience. JB and Michelle have a lot to answer for.
Delete10:22 and 5:10...I completely agree
Delete@10:25 I know. Makes me worried about what else is happening to children behind closed doors in this country, if they call that good parenting.
Delete"Godly" parents don't make their daughters go on TV to cry and to try to downplay the rotten behavior of their son. Any shred of respect left was gone after that interview and after reading the report of what really happened. Shameful. Jill has a right to speak out and finally tell her side of the story. Only the guilty will feel hurt.
Delete@10:22 You are posting that they are saying these things. People are saying they are slandering gheir parents. We only know what was shown on TV. We don’t know the real truth of what they lived through. They are bringing it to light. The only real bad stuff Jill said directly about their parents in the docuseries was msotly about Jim Bob’s coersion and control over the money from the show. They didn’t see any money from it. You think they are lying? Where is your proof? The TV show?!
DeleteAnon 8:28 Well I bet you wouldn't be so ok and easy about what they are doing if this was your kids doing this to you. Its all about the money!
DeleteAnon 6:34 People who have been victimized don't go hang out on vacation with people who "victimized" them. If these parents were so horrible these girls wouldn't dare step near their parents after all they are saying and writing about them. Seems to me the girls know the parents are loving and forgiving or else they wouldn't risk a visit to see them. These girls wrote them books for the money and its obvious!
Delete@8:28 We got a look at what they lived through both with the official police report and what was said under oath at the trial. That was not internet gossip or public opinion, that was truth/facts.
DeleteAnon 2:59. What in the world were the parents suppose to do about Josh, take him outback and shoot him!! They removed him from the home and sent him away in hopes he would get better and from what we know, when he came back he stopped his deviant behavior. They made him reveal to Anna and her family what he had done so she was fully aware of what she was marrying. Then when he got married he was back into his deviant behavior and it was now up to his wife to kick him to the curb but she kept him around. He then escalated his insidious behavior and is now in prison for it. Michelle made it real clear to him by not once going to court for him that she loved him and will pray for him but he is going to pay for what he did. The parents never hid what Josh did to the sisters and although they had no idea that Josh would sneak into their room at night and touch them, the parents told the girls what he did. Now you know that when Josh told the parents what he did that the parents didn't just stand there and listen and didn't do anything to him. Jim Bob no doubt whipped his butt and threatened him to never do it again. and Josh didn't do it again until he was out of their house and married. So they said and did Something that scared him. But when he left home their hands were tied at that point. There is only so much the parents could do.
DeleteI can't comment on the book yet. I do agree with the comment I'm replying to.
DeleteIf the girls are focusing on making cases for themselves as victims, then there needs to be another case made for the positive viewpoint. There's endless points of good things that made up their lives to talk about. Need attitude of gratitude not greed.
No one knows what actually goes on behind a stellar family image. I am 63 years old and can tell you things can be very different "off camera" and my own children have paid a price for the way I was raised.
DeleteAnon 8:28. Them girls have been married for years now and post constantly (mostly Jinger) and had ever opportunity to tell people everything that they "went through", yet they didn't and instead years later wrote books instead making it real clear what this is all about, to make money. If Jinger was so worried about people being mislead by the Gothard doctrine she would have talked about it and warned people years ago as much as she is online. But instead waited and wanted money so she wrote a book and appeared all over tv talking about it and getting money to appear. Next thing you see is her having a custom shoe closet made for her thousands of dollars worth of sneakers. Its all about greed and the love for money. Its shameful!!
DeleteJust read Jinger's book - you are mischaracterizing it. There was absolutely no slandering of her parents. The tone was gracious and respectful, and she made it clear that her book was about the harm in Gothard's teaching, not bashing her parents.
Delete@4:48 Have your parents ever betrayed you to your core? If not, then you can't understand the conflict of feelings, being extremely hurt by the very people you were conditioned to love since you were a baby. Of course the girls still want to be around the parents, because of hope that the love they were supposed to get all along will be there somewhere. But I guarantee you there are other feelings swirling under the surface during those visits. Feelings of hurt and distrust and extreme sadness of what was supposed to be perfect but wasn't. That's what's driving the book writing. It's a horrible feeling to realize your parents didn't love you like they should have, and some people absolutely can't give up on the hope that things will turn around. Still doesn't erase the past though.
Delete4:48 Jill has stated that she hasn't been to her parents' home in quite a few years.
Delete@11:44 I want to make one point: It was NOT good parenting that JB and Michelle encouraged/pressured Josh to get married, considering his troubled and deviant history. He NEVER had any professional counseling or intervention, just Gothard boot camp. What's even worse is that Anna's parents approved of her marrying him. She was so young and believed whatever the adults in her world told her. That's just sick!
Delete10:22 yes! I agree!
DeleteJill bashed the parents, not Jinger
DeleteJill went wild with that septum piercing which looks weird on her.. very sad that she turned to worldly ways
Delete@2:29 Why is that sad? Don't you see the millions of happy "worldly" people there are? Look around at all the people doing good things in the world. They don't have to live like nuns or priests to still be good people. Jill has done what makes her happy, and that doesn't make her a terrible person at all. You talk as if it's either Godly or Worldly, nothing in between. That is not the case.
DeleteAnon 12:47 If Gothards teachings were something so dangerous and harmful to her then where has she been with that information. She is on social media constantly and so if she can't make money on the information by charging for a book then people can keep being misled by Gothard? If I knew something was harmful then I will tell you about it for free. She has been on social media for years now.
Delete1:06 when you are signed into those TLC contracts, it can be awhile before you can speak about it plus they was taking her parents to court. She has the right to tell her story the way she wants and actually get paid. Sadly a lot of them did not get paid even the minors that still live in the house.
DeleteI can't wait! I hope all of them come out with their own personal stories and experiences.
ReplyDeleteI just hope all of them get out, not necessarily come out. Get out of that ridiculous religious thinking. Jim Bob and Michelle are not going to live forever, so there will come a time when the kids won't have to answer to any parent or carry any guilt.
Delete@7:10 You are never to old to get caught up in a cult. I don't really like the parents but they fell into that religion too.
DeleteYep, I thought this was a Duggar blog that emphasized the simplistic, God centered life full of ministry service and didn't look nothing like the self centered, materialistic loving society that we all wanted to get away from. But I guess that's not the case anymore. Sad!
ReplyDeleteIts about the Duggars. They update what is going on. Jill is speaking out. She is the victim.
DeleteSeems like a whole lot of crazy going on now! lol.
Delete@5:26 This is a blog about what the Duggars are doing now so I guess you could say this is who they've become. I don't know how you could run a blog and pretend the stuff that happened didn't happen or isn't still happening.
Delete@5:26 You want this blog to ignore everything that happened and all the changes this family has made, just to keep up some "simplistic, God-centered life" fairy tale? You're just about asking Ellie to fabricate a false "truth" and I'm sure that's not in her values.
DeleteIf you were looking to get away from self-centered and materialistic society, tuning into a reality show where an entire family was exploited on TV by the patriarch is an odd way of doing that.
DeleteEven I, a troll, can’t wait to buy Jill’s book! It will have lots of material for this blog and for its trolls! Very entertaining!
ReplyDeleteWhy a fan blog though? It doesn't make sense.
Delete8:14 a fan blog because it’s so much fun!
Delete8:14 Why not? If the comments are approved and posted, that's what matters.
DeleteA fan blog because you want to make fans mad. You don't really mean what you say about the Duggars.
DeleteI cannot wait to read Jill's book.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Michelle didn't act like her rebellious daughters or there wouldn't be a Duggar show. If Michelle had piercings and tattoos or dyed pink hair and tight jeans on and closets full of designer sneakers, we wouldn't want nothing to do with her. I always admired Michelle's integrity to not look and act like the world. We need more women to live by a Godly standard like her.
ReplyDelete@8:42 There's a Godly standard....and then there's closing your eyes and not accepting what danger you've put your daughters in or how awful your son can act and still get away with things without the proper punishment, while you continue to allow TV cameras in your house as if noting happened, so you can receive those payments. We don't need more women who live that standard.
DeleteYes, you make several good points, 8:42 AM.
DeletePiercings and tattoos are not a sin. If you want to cherry pick the old testament, you couldn't have pieced ear lobes nor could you cut your hair and where certain materials.
DeleteYes, I’m glad she’s not all into trending, style, fashion, or makeup. I prefer comfort over style and fashion. I like to look nice, but I prefer leggings, joggers, pjs, and sweats. I wear glasses and I’m not into makeup. I don’t go crazy with my hair, just wash it, brush it, and leave it be.
DeleteAnon 8:13. I wasn't cherry picking anything, What I was saying was the fact that Michelle was super conservative, was not trying to look like the world or act like the world and was raising her kids that way made her stand out in a good way. Most of us wouldn't be watching that show if she lived like Jinger or Jill, we see enough of those lifestyles.
Delete@4:39 Jill and Jinger dresses pretty nice with a modest touch. Women these days really don't dress like that. At least where I'm from... Its all about them revealing shorts but that's not for me to judge.
Delete4:39 TLC's "reality" shows invariably depict the highly unusual, odd, or what will attract the curious. The title of their first show was "14 Kids and Pregnant Again". It had little to do with what clothes Michelle wore, but was exploiting the fact that she had birthed so many kids and went on to have many more. Most people wouldn't dream of having that many children. It was like a circus-side show for a good share of viewers, and has since become the train wreck people can't stop themselves from watching.
Delete4:39 I think it's safe to say that a good share of the people who watched the show were just mind-boggled that any woman would want to give birth to that many kids. That's how they got on TV in the first place, for their enormous number of children.
DeleteWouldn't want nothing to do with her = we would want something to do with her. Two negatives = a positive. Just like math, language multiplies negatives into positives.
DeleteAnon 4:23 I don't think it was just about the amount of kids they had. That might of been the thing that drew people in but they kept watching when they seen how they lived and what they believed. There was a lot of good life lessons that came from that show like, being involved in ministries, the kids all involved in playing instruments, keeping the holidays centered around Christ, cooking ideas, shopping on a shoestring budget etc etc. Lots of us enjoyed the show and were happy that there wasn't crude talking and all the other things that we see on mainstream media. It was a breath of fresh air to get away from the filth that tv normally produces.
Delete8:15- "Reality shows" are scripted and staged. What you see on TV is what TLC wants you to see.
DeleteI can't wait!
ReplyDeleteI am so happy for her. I can't wait to read her book.
ReplyDeleteThose who support the parents also support Josh. Period.
ReplyDeleteTheir publicists would want you to think otherwise but I agree.
DeleteI am really looking forward to Jill's book. I enjoyed Jinger's book too.
ReplyDeleteYay!!!
ReplyDeleteIt would help if these Duggars turned to the vegan diet.
ReplyDeleteI know vegans who are very unhealthy due to the fact they eat lots of carbs (bread, noodles, etc..)
DeleteHow would it help? Don't be shaming meat eaters!
DeleteWhy? People who do that can lack important nutrients. Nobody should ever make a radical diet change without consulting their doctor first. Never follow an Internet fad or suggestion on your own.
DeleteI agree 3:27. I read a story about a young lady who died of starvation doing a really bizarre exotic fruits only diet. She was a vegan too.. I feel that becoming vegan just opens doors for kore unhealthy eating
DeleteMy doctor said thats the most unhealthy diet.
Delete@3:27 A dietician would be best. Good luck trying to see your doctor because these days that's impossible. They give you nurse practitioners instead. But depending on your health history, you don't necessarily have to consult anyone about a diet change. It just all depends on the individual both medical and if the diet is making them feel bad.
DeleteNobody goes to doctors for a diet change unless they had a heart attack. Sad but true.
Delete8:36 not all vegans eat just fruit though. The people that become unhealthy and anemic being vegan is the ones only eating salads. There's a lot more to it. And usually these people are doing it because they are trying to get skinny.
DeleteI know a pregnant vegan who became anemic and low on vitamins. It could have been avoided had she eaten animal products. I can't imagine risking your baby's health that way. I have a feeling she went to some non-mainstream pre-natal "care."
DeleteWill Jenni and Hannie have a double wedding? It would save Jim some money.
ReplyDeleteUmmm....Jenni is just 16, why even make this comment. It doesn't seem appropriate at all. In my opinion it is not right to make any such comments that are sarcastic or silly about a child's parent. Just because the public was shared with into this family l8fe doesn't make it the publics right to make all kinds of assorted variety personal comments. Be decent.
DeleteSomeone in this blog several years ago mentioned that the patriarch himself laughingly brought up the idea of double weddings as a possible money saver! So it’s ok to joke about it!
DeleteOr they and their partners could just elope to save Jim Bob money
DeleteSo, Me being me. I went to dig this up after I discovered it on audible. That being said, I wasn't paying attention and did not see the release date. so went digging through various sites for the blind and physically disabled. thinking the book had been out a while. Well nls bard from the library of congress hasn't gotten this book yet, my ocal library has its four coppies out and 47 holds all ready placed. I forgot my card barcode for the library here so can't put my own hold on it till morning. ah well Maybe when i get paid, i can buy more audible credits or nls is all ready on top of this. We shall see. A piece of wisdom my grandma told me when I was ten 27 years ago or so. Every child in a family remembers things different. We all have our own memories good and bad on how things happen. And remember baby healing comes with time. She knew us kids had been through a lot. I often sought families like the Duggars to follow the ideals of not all cause that just I couldn't but the praying being loving to all and there faith in god in general. now dancing and such i would always do because i grew up in a pretty well daddy was an atheist and mom well mom says she is pagan so you see, me I have checked out lots of faiths over the years. I grew up in chaos until i went to live with dad. but I am still messed up from all that chaos.
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