Jill Duggar Has a ‘Complicated’ Relationship With Jim Bob and Michelle

Jill Duggar isn’t holding again with regards to being actual in regards to the dynamic between her and her mother and father, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar.

When requested about their relationship by a follower on Saturday, November 2, Jill, 33, wrote on her Instagram Story, “Sophisticated.” She shared a pink coronary heart emoji and added, “I really feel like we’re in a rebuilding part now with wholesome boundaries nonetheless in place. We strive to hang around at any time when it really works nicely and we have now the bandwidth to navigate issues.”

The Counting On star hasn’t shied away from sharing the reality about her familial relationships following the discharge of her 2023 e-book, Counting the Price, and the docuseries Shiny Glad Folks, which she appeared in alongside her husband of 10 years, Derick Dillard. The doc dissects the Duggars’ involvement within the controversial Institute in Fundamental Life Ideas (IBLP) faith, whereas Jill’s memoir shares her personal troublesome expertise rising up as one of many 19 Duggar youngsters.

She beforehand revealed she hadn’t seen her mother and father in over a yr on a January episode of the “Unplanned Podcast.”

“I’ve heard that they did [read it],” Jill advised hosts Abby and Matt Howard of her memoir. “I heard they, like, listened to it on audiobook or one thing. I don’t know. … They’re my mother and father and I’m gonna tread frivolously.”

Jill acknowledged that she didn’t wish to “create extra controversy” along with her prolonged household. “It’s form of like once you get collectively on the holidays, and there are simply sure issues that you simply don’t, like, simply wish to carry up,” she mentioned. “It’s in all probability a sore topic.”

Jill — the fourth baby and second daughter of Christian baptist fundamentalists Jim Bob, 59, and Michelle, 58 — was first featured on TLC’s 19 Children and Counting earlier than it was canceled in 2015. She and Derick, 35, later starred on a by-product titled Counting On, however left the collection in 2017. (Counting On was finally canceled in 2021 following her brother Josh Duggar‘s arrest on baby pornography expenses. He was convicted and is serving greater than 12 years in federal jail.)

“In [Counting the Cost], I speak in regards to the shift of going from feeling that strain, being OK with having numerous youngsters, in that perception system that I grew up in,” Jill defined on Christy Carlson Romano‘s “Weak” podcast in October 2023. “To then having the shift of being like, ‘Do I belief in God with the variety of youngsters that I’m purported to have?’ may additionally imply trusting Him if he doesn’t give us 20 youngsters.”

Derick additionally talked about the “poisonous” hierarchy within the household’s IBLP faith, the place you’re seen as “much less when you have much less youngsters.”

“However even your mother and father have mentioned, ‘Whoever has probably the most youngsters will get the home,’” he said, with Jill chiming in that her mother and pop had been “half-joking.”

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Jill and Derick, who share three sons — Israel, 9, Samuel, 6, and Freddy, 2 — have been in mourning after the stillbirth of their daughter, Isla Marie, earlier this yr. The couple additionally skilled a being pregnant loss in 2021.

It appeared the Duggars set any of their variations apart to honor Isla Marie at a memorial in April, as Jim Bob and Michelle might be seen in images shared by Jill from the child’s funeral. They had been noticed observing pink balloons being launched into the air.

“Isla Marie Dillard, ‘planted on earth to bloom in heaven,’” Jill captioned a carousel of images on April 24, including a Bible verse, “For you fashioned my inward elements; you knitted me collectively in my mom’s womb. I reward you, for I’m fearfully and splendidly made… (Psalm‬ ‭139‬:‭13‬-‭14‬).”