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Jill Duggar will launch her tell-all memoir, Counting the Cost, on Tuesday, September 12, and the e book contains a number of stunning revelations about her household. In the memoir, the previous 19 Kids and Counting star and her husband, Derick Dillard, opened up about their expertise with TLC and her household’s IBLP (Institute in Basic Life Principles) practices. IBLP is a non-denominational Christian group that has confronted backlash for its male-dominated teachings.
The e book’s description teases readers that the couple have been subjected to “manipulation and intimidation” by the hands of Jill’s household — explicit her father, Jim Bob Duggar.
“Jill and Derick knew a traditional life wasn’t potential for them,” the memoir’s description reads. “As a star on the favored TLC actuality present 19 Kids and Counting, Jill grew up in entrance of viewers who have been fascinated by her household’s lifestyle. She was the accountable, second daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle’s nineteen youngsters; all the time with a child on her hip and joyful to put on the modest ankle-length clothes with throat-high necklines.”
Keep studying to search out out all the things that Jill reveals in Counting the Cost.
Jim Bob Screaming, ‘You’re Guilty!’
According to an excerpt obtained by PEOPLE forward of the memoir’s launch date, Jill described a tense assembly between her, Derick and Jim Bob. The TLC alum recounted how her mom and father reacted to a letter she had apparently written about her mother and father.
“There was no scowl on her face, no folded arms. Just a glance of ache. The ache of a mama torn by her child,” Jill wrote about her mom, earlier than including that Michelle mentioned, “‘It was probably the most disrespectful factor I’ve ever learn.’”
Jill then recalled how she had despatched Jim Bob a textual content in regards to the stress of their household, “within the hope that it’d wake Pops as much as how dangerous I felt issues had gotten.”
“‘You despatched me a textual content message, Jill. You mentioned I used to be verbally abusing you,’” Jim Bob allegedly mentioned to Jill, per the e book’s excerpt. “’I used to be so offended by that, too. You know in your coronary heart that’s not proper. Are you going to apologize for that?’”
After silence crammed the air, Jill revealed that she began crying, to which her father allegedly mentioned, “‘You know why you’re crying, don’t you? Your conscience is speaking to you. That’s why. … You’re responsible!’”
Jill Accusing Jim Bob of Treating Her Worse Than Josh
After Jim Bob scolded her, Jill stood up for herself, which she recalled within the newly launched excerpt.
“‘You need to know why I’m crying?’” she wrote within the e book. “‘It’s that you just assume I’m some form of horrible individual simply because I put on pants and have a nostril ring, and but you see that lady exterior and reward her. That’s why I’m crying, daddy. I’m evolving and altering, identical to that lady on the market, however you possibly can’t see it. You deal with me like I’m a prodigal who’s turned her again on you. You deal with me worse than you deal with my pedophile brother.’”
Jill’s “pedophile brother” remark was a reference to Josh Duggar, who was imprisoned after being discovered responsible of kid pornography fees.
Jim Bob Challenging Jill’s Choice to Wear Pants
Four days forward of the e book’s launch date, a supply instructed In Touch that in her memoir, Jill recalled Jim Bob’s response to her determination to put on pants — a serious diversion from the Duggar household’s strict gown code for ladies swimsuit. The Duggar household patriarch had approached Jill on why she was sporting leggings as an alternative of clothes and Ski Glasses gogglesrts.
The insider instructed the outlet that Jim Bob gave a e book to Jill in regards to the significance of a modest gown code, to which Jill felt “embarrassed” and “humiliated” by.
First seem at Jill Duggar’s Most Shocking Revelations in Her ‘Counting the Cost’ Book: Jim Bob Fight and More Family Quotes
