Former 19 Children and Counting star Jill Duggar is opening up about what it was actually prefer to develop up on actuality TV and the darkish components of her expertise that viewers didn’t see. Her upcoming ebook, Counting the Price, will discover her “painful journey” and the challenges she and her husband Derick Dillard confronted when coping with her household’s “lack of respect for boundaries, greed, manipulation, and betrayal.”
‘Counting the Cost’ is out in January 2024
Duggar household followers have lengthy been hoping for a tell-all memoir from Jill, who has publicly distanced herself from her her ultra-conservative household. Now, their dream is coming true. Days earlier than the premiere of Prime Video’s docuseries, Shiny Completely satisfied Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques, Jill took to Instagram to share that she’d written a memoir. Sadly, folks must wait some time to listen to what she has to say.
Counting the Price will hit retailer cabinets on January 16, 2024, with an inventory value of $28.99 for the hardcover and $14.99 for the e book. It’s out there for pre-order now and is already a bestseller within the “Religious Cults” and “Biographies & Memoirs” classes on Amazon. On Instagram, Jill confirmed that there will likely be an audiobook model as properly.
Counting the Price will likely be revealed by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Jill is the first writer, with Derick and Craig Borlase as co-authors. Borlase is a ghostwriter who’s additionally labored on the New York Instances bestsellers Discovering Gobi and My Identify Is Tani.
What to anticipate from Jill Duggar’s tell-all memoir
Jill isn’t the primary Duggar sibling to publish a ebook about her time on TV and her resolution to interrupt away from her household’s beliefs. In her 2023 ebook Turning into Free Certainly, Jill’s youthful sister Jinger Duggar opened up questioning the ideology of her youth and creating a brand new relationship with Christianity. That ebook was crucial of the infamous Institute in Fundamental Life Ideas and its founder Invoice Gothard. But it surely didn’t instantly name out her mother and father, Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar.
It seems like Jill’s ebook will take a way more crucial have a look at the Duggar household itself, and the disconnect between what audiences noticed on 19 Children and Counting and what was actually happening behind the scenes.
In Counting the Price, Jill and Derick will “share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation behind the show that remained hidden from their fans,” in line with the ebook’s synopsis.
Rising up, Jill “didn’t protest the strict model of patriarchy that her family followed, which declares that men are superior, that women are expected to be wives and mothers and are discouraged from attaining a higher education, and that parental authority over their children continues well into adulthood, even once they are married,” the synopsis continues.
However as Jill bought older, married Derick, and began constructing her personal life, “the red flags became too obvious to ignore.” Ultimately, “thanks to time, tears, therapy, and blessings from God” she and her husband have been capable of “find healing through honesty.”
Jill beforehand wrote a ebook together with her sisters Jinger, Jessa, and Jana Duggar
Counting the Price isn’t Jill’s first foray into publishing. In 2014, she and her sisters Jinger, Jessa, and Jana Duggar launched Rising Up Duggar. The ebook coated their religion, their childhood, and their beliefs about relationships. They opened up about deciding to stay “pure” whereas courting, eschewing secular tradition, and dressing modestly.
Within the introduction to Rising Up Duggar, the women shared how Jim Bob and Michelle taught them to take care of battle inside the household.
“Mom and Dad have always taught us to quickly work out those issues so that resentment and bitterness don’t creep in and destroy our family’s closeness and unity,” they wrote.
The fact for the Duggars was extra advanced, Jill says in Shiny Completely satisfied Folks. Within the collection, she opened up about how damaging and hurtful it was when the household swept critical points – notably sexual abuse dedicated by eldest son Josh Duggar – below the rug and pressured her and her siblings to behave as if nothing was unsuitable. It seems like Jill could have a really completely different tackle her childhood in her upcoming ebook.
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