Jill Duggar Honors Dad Jim Bob After Years of Estrangement

Jill Duggar has many individuals on her thoughts this Father’s Day — together with her dad, Jim Bob Duggar.

“Blissful Father’s Day to my fantastic hubby @derickdillard 💗,” Jill, 34, wrote through Instagram on Sunday, June 15, paying tribute to husband Derick Dillard. “ILYSM and I’m so happy with you and I do know your dad could be too. Watching you with our children melts my coronary heart and jogs my memory how blessed I’m to get to do life with you by my aspect! Thanks for loving effectively and pointing us again to Jesus by means of all of the ups and downs. Xoxoxo.”

Jill shared a number of snaps of Derick, 36, with their three sons: Israel, Samuel and Frederick, whom they welcomed in 2015, 2017 and 2022, respectively. She additionally uploaded a selfie of the couple, who tied the knot in 2014, visiting the gravesite of late daughter Isla. (Jill revealed in April 2024 that she suffered a stillbirth.)

“And pleased Father’s Day to my very own dad @duggarfam who at all times made time for us children and saved issues thrilling and adventurous rising up, together with the household bike rides, work days on the automotive lot, meals of chilly butter beans with ketchup and BBQ tunafish sandwiches,” she continued in her Sunday submit.

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Jill additionally honored Derick’s father, whom she shared she by no means met on “this aspect of eternity.”

“I get a bit of glimpse each day into the person you had been simply by being married to an exquisite son you helped increase,” she concluded. “Thanks for educating him to like Jesus, work onerous, deal with girls with respect, be a person of integrity and never be afraid to point out compassion and care to others. I’m without end grateful and sit up for catching up in individual someday on the opposite aspect!”

Jill, who rose to fame together with her household in TLC’s 19 Children and Counting, has been candid by means of the years about her ups and downs together with her mother and father and siblings. After the sequence was canceled, Jill returned for the spinoff Counting On in 2017 — however exited the present alongside Derick two years later.

“We had been prepared to go away and felt strongly about leaving. … There are undoubtedly some points there,” Jill solely informed Us Weekly in 2021. “We undoubtedly really feel like we’re in a wholesome place now for our household and have management over our lives. … Sure persons are extra supportive than others. I feel it ebbs and flows with a household of that measurement. Each household has drama and so whenever you’ve received that many extra individuals giving opinions or no matter, it will probably get loopy.”

Jill shared an replace on her relationship together with her mother and father in November 2024, telling a follower who requested that it was “difficult.”

“I really feel like we’re in a rebuilding section now with wholesome boundaries nonetheless in place,” she wrote through her Instagram Story on the time. “We strive to hang around each time it really works effectively and we’ve got the bandwidth to navigate.”

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