Jill Duggar and her husband Derick Dillard are detailing their experience filming the hit reality TV shows"19 Kids and Counting" and"Counting On" in a new memoir.."It’s been a cathartic process… This is not an isolated experience, just for reality TV or for large families… I hope people can relate to it and say, ‘I felt that too. I felt the isolation that breeds from control.
Duggar’s parents are devout followers of the Institute for Basic Life Principles . The goal of IBLP is to provide others with a"clear institution and training on how to find success by following God’s principles found in Scripture." IBLP’s website claims that"over 2.5 million people" have attended their seminars over the years."19 Kids & Counting," which chronicled the lives of the growing Duggar family, aired from 2008 to 2015.
Duggar’s struggles in the spotlight worsened. In 2015, a police report from the investigation about her brother Josh molesting Duggar and her sisters when they were young went public. Duggar deliberately kept the details of what occurred out of her book, but recalled telling her husband that she felt"terrible… I wish I were dead."
"When everything came into the public spotlight, obviously that was a very devastating time — it continues to be for me," said Duggar.
"I hope and pray that it does get better," she shared."I love my dad… That’s why it’s taken me so long to speak up because I love my family so much. And I don’t want to hurt them."