One of the nice things that we can say about Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard is that they break Jim Bob’s rules.
Now, Jill is letting her sons watch a Christmas movie that’s about as secular as you can get while, you know, being about Christmas.
She’s having the...
Jill Duggar Defies Jim Bob"s Rules, Has Secular "Movie Date" With Sons
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Jill Duggar Defies Jim Bob"s Rules, Has Secular "Movie Date" With Sons
Monday, November 12, 2018
Jill Duggar & Derick Dillard Support the Troops By Taking Selfies
For many people, one of the most infuriating things about the Duggar clan is their inability to practice what they preach.
They claim devotion to the teachings of Jesus, and yet they dedicate their days to amassing wealth.
They insist on privacy when it’s convenient, yet they’ve made careers out of sharing the details of their private lives on social media.
And, as many have pointed out in recent years, they talk a big game about their support for the US military, despite the fact that none of the Duggar men (and there are many) have ever served a day in the military.
Obviously, you can support the troops without having served in the armed forces, but some folks are accusing the Duggars of supporting the military only in a performative, insincere fashion.
Over the weekend, Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard attended a fundraiser for veterans.
Jill posted the above pic, along with the very lengthy caption below:
“To all American military veterans and their families, THANK YOU, we love you and are supporting and praying for you!!! We were able to attend a veteran’s gala hosted by @getitatsamsnwa (thanks @davidlaningham & @sierrajodominguez for your help and @cldilla for watching the boys!)
“It was such a powerful night! Our returning military often fight their greatest battles after they return from the field and it’s our job as civilians to do whatever we can to raise awareness and reach out in support.
“There are so many organizations that help us do just that, one amazing one is the REBOOT Alliance!
“What are your favorite ways to support our troops and their families?
We probably don’t need to tell you that several folks answered that question with something along the lines of “by actually serving in the freaking military!”
The issue of why the family has no involvement with the US military despite their constant talk of supporting the troops is a common subject of inquiry on Duggar-themed message boards.
Responding to the question of whether a Duggar would ever enlist, one fan on the Free Jinger site responded:
“No, never. They’d have to interact with ‘commoners’ plus take orders from someone other than Daddy.”
Others pointed out that serving would put the Duggars in contact with folks who engage in such sinful activities as swearing, smoking, and drinking.
None of this is to say that Jill and Derick were wrong to pose for selfies at a swanky event designed to raise money for veterans.
It’s just odd that there are so many Duggars and none of them seem to have any interest in serving.
Maybe they should get over their fear of f-bombs and Marlboros so that they can serve their country.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Jill Duggar: I Love Derick Dillard More Than I Love Our Kids!
So Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard …
Things have been pretty weird for them lately, huh?
Well, they’ve been weird for years, but that’s just how things go in Duggar relationships.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that things have been different.
It all started several months ago when rumors began swirling that Derick was cheating on Jill.
The rumors started with anonymous claims about his unfaithfulness, then when Duggar fans and haters began to notice, that’s when things really started heating up.
And Jill and Derick haven’t done too much to fight those rumors — quite the opposite, actually.
A couple of months ago, Jill shared a photo of her bible, and everyone quickly noticed that she had an entire passage about adultery highlighted.
In the caption of that photo, she wrote that she was praying for Derick, which … not a great sign.
Last month, she shared another photo of more reading material — this time, she had a book about boundaries and creating them with toxic people in your life.
Interesting, right?
But now, in a brand new post, she’s changing her tune a bit.
And it sure is nauseating.
Along with the photo, she wrote a sickeningly sweet caption that she kicked off with a “man of my dreams” hashtag.
(Sad dreams, Jill, but OK.)
She then thanked him “for being my man and my best friend!”
“Love you!” she continued. “When I count my blessings, you’re at the top of my list!”
“So grateful to God for you!”
She wrapped things up with some kiss emojis and a “so in love” hashtag.
For one, it’s kind of strange that she straight up said that Derick is her number one blessing, huh?
Like, “sorry, Israel and Samuel, Mommy loves Daddy more than you.”
For two, pretty much no one was here for this silliness.
“In what universe does a girl/young woman ‘dream’ of marrying a lazy, bigoted, chronically unemployed grifter who drifts from job to job and resorts to GoFundMe scams to support her and her kids?” one of her followers asked.
Another person said that instead of being the man of her dreams, Derick is more likely “a man of your nightmares!”
“I am not really sure what you see in that man,” yet another doubtful fan wrote.
“He is soo full of himself!! The god I believe in would not hate or chastize a person for being gay or transgender.”
Other people pointed out that everything Jill said is really the kind of thing that would be much more meaningful if she actually said it to Derick instead of posting about it on social media.
Still others insisted that she’s just trying to talk him up because everyone hates him.
One of those people said that “Jill has to make him ‘look good,’ it’s a way of being in denial to herself that she is with the wrong person.”
“But she has no choice bc of her family and their values of marrying strangers and arranged at that.”
But whatever her motivations were for posting this, or however mistaken she may be, Derick is still into it.
“Aw, I’m blessed beyond measure by you babe, and I’ll love you forever,” he responded to Jill on Twitter.
“Thanks for being the best wife and mom to our boys! We all love you so much!”
The thing is that no matter what anybody thinks about any of this, and really no matter what Derick does, Jill is never going to leave him.
And how frustrating is that?
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Jill Duggar: PROOF She and Her Family are Broke?!
OK, so we’ve definitely discussed the state of Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard’s finances before.
Many, many times.
Nobody’s trying to be nosy — not any nosier than celebrity gossip tends to be, anyway — but they’ve brought the topic up themselves a lot over the past few years.
And it literally never goes over well.
The thing is that the Duggar family has money, and everybody knows it.
They’ve had their own reality show for the past 10 years — 17 Kids and Counting debuted on TLC in September of 2008.
It eventually became 18 Kids and Counting, then 19 Kids and Counting, but it was cancelled in 2015 after Josh’s molestation scandal.
By the end of that year, however, the first episode of their spin-off, Counting On, aired.
So it’s not like they were ever “out of work” for any real length of time.
Since the whole family has been on popular reality shows for ten years (and counting, get it?), they’re reasonably well off.
Like, they have about eight private planes.
They’re doing all right.
Still, Jill and Derick have gotten into a habit of asking fans for money.
And that’s just not a good look.
Time and time again, they’ve set up GoFundMe pages, asking for donations for their mission trips.
Whenever they got criticism for it — which was every single time they did it — they always defended themselves by saying that missionaries get donations, it’s just a thing that happens.
Which is true, sure, but missionaries are rarely also TV stars.
These days, their family is pretty settled in Arkansas, so they can’t really do such easy money grabs anymore.
… Or can they?!
Alyssa Bates from Bringing Up Bates, that show that’s basically 19 Kids and Counting with a different family, posted a giveaway on her Instagram account on Friday.
The rules of the giveaway were to follow her and then tag three people in the comments.
From those entries, she’d pick 28 people to win a gift card — $ 10 gift cards to Starbucks and Chick-fil-A, and $ 10 iTunes gift cards.
As she explained in the caption on her post, this is just a way for her to “show my appreciation to you guys for your constant love and support.”
You can already see where this is headed, can’t you?
Jill actually entered the giveaway.
She was already following Alyssa, since the Bates and the Duggars are friends.
But she tagged two of her sisters, Jessa and Jinger, as well as her sister-in-law, Anna.
“Hey biz!” she added, using a nickname for Alyssa. “Super nice of you!”
And it’s all just kind of odd.
The giveaway was obviously intended for fans, as most giveaways are.
Surely the vast majority of her followers who have entered it are fans of the show who would appreciate a little treat like this.
Not, you know, people who have been famous for a decade.
Yes, she was fired from the family’s show after Derick’s super weird rants about Jazz Jennings and transgender people in general.
And sure, Derick doesn’t have a job right now, and she’s staying home with the kids while he goes to law school.
But still, the Duggars were able to afford raising 19 children.
And on top of that, they’ve likely dropped a few million dollars just on private planes.
Can Jim Bob really not throw Jill some cash if she wants some Starbucks money that bad?
It’s weird to say, but we kind of hope that Jill just doesn’t understand that this is tacky.
After all, that’s still better than her just being that broke.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Jill Duggar: Did She Just Confirm That Derick Dillard Is Cheating?!
The past year has not been particularly kind to Jill Duggar.
It all started back in November of 2017, when Derick Dillard was fired from Counting On.
Jill quit the show as a gesture of solidarity, which unfortunately left the couple with two kids to raise and no source of income.
One would think that after such a precipitous fall from grace, Derick would be forever on his best behavior, but thus far that hasn’t been the case.
These days, Derick is in law school and taking steps toward once again supporting his wife and kids, but the months since his termination have been tumultuous for reasons that go far beyond financial instability.
Derick has been accused of cheating on Jill, and the fact that neither party has addressed those rumors has only added to the public scrutiny of their relationship.
Earlier this week, Jill posted the photo below, which shows her reading a self-help book entitled Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend.
“Reading a little during bath time. lol #momlife #orangebathwater #boundariesbook,” Jill captioned the pic.
As In Touch Weekly points out, many of Jill’s followers commented that they had also enjoyed the book and found it especially helpful for mending fractured relationships.
“Very good for dealing with toxic family members or friends!” wrote one such fan.
Others noted that Jill could very much benefit from the lessons about independence, and Derick often seems to treat her as his doormat, even going so far as to make Jill attend his law school lectures to assist in taking notes.
“A great time to say ‘no’ is going to your husband’s school. That is a good boundary to work on, Jill,” commented one follower.
“Her father controlled her life until she married her husband,” added another fan.
“She NEEDS to read this book.”
As many others pointed out, this is not the first time that Jill has used her Instagram page and her choice of reading materials to throw subtle shade at her controversial husband.
Jill recently posted a photo of her Bible, in which the section about adultery has been highlighted in its entirety.
Like we said, neither Jill or Derick has confirmed or denied that Derick was busted cheating recently — and in all likelihood, they never will.
But that doesn’t Jill is above throwing a little shade with her Instagram posts.
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Jill Duggar: Derick Dillard Doesn"t Have a Job and He Kind of Sucks, But I Still Love Him!
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard, what a couple, right?
And we don’t mean that in a good way.
Jill’s all right for the most part, we guess, but Derick … that’s where the trouble lies.
Because Derick is the worst.
He’s homophobic, and he also has a bizarre, disturbing fascination with Jazz Jennings, a lovely child with her own TLC show who also happens to be transgender.
At this point, we can’t even count how many times he’s talked about Jazz — who, again, is a child — in cruel, hateful ways.
He got so obsessed with insulting her that TLC fired him and Jill from Counting On last year.
And yes, Derick will swear up and down that they weren’t fired, he just decided their family needed to quit the show, but … come on.
If all of that wasn’t enough to prove his awfulness, he also attacked survivors of the Parkland school shooting more than once, because they were a little too liberal for his taste.
That’s what his problem boils down to, essentially: he’s extremely conservative, but in the dumbest, most offensive way possible.
Another thing about Derick is that he doesn’t seem to work, but whenever anyone brings it up, he’s quick to tell everyone that he has a job, thank you very much.
Except he’ll never say exactly what that job is.
A funny thing happened last month, though, and that funny thing is that Derick began attending law school.
He seems to be really into the whole thing, which is good — if he ends up being a lawyer, he could probably stop asking Duggar fans for money.
But in a new post she made on Instagram, Jill is still acting like he has a job.
Let it go already, guys.
Along with the above photo, she wrote “Love this man! He gets up early to head out before traffic gets bad, works all day, then comes home after most people and puts more energy to invest in our boys and me!”
“You’re still my fave!”
She added nauseating hashtags like “forever mine,” “man of my dreams,” “you’ve got my heart,” and “I’m so in love,” and “grateful wifey,” because she loves him, OK?
Here’s the problem.
They’ve both been so weird for so long about Derick working, and so defensive whenever anyone says he’s unemployed.
If he stays home to take care of the kids, that’s fine, you know? If they’re living off Duggar money, it’s all right.
But even though Derick is in law school, and even though he’s flat out said that these days, he’s either sleeping, in class, or in his school’s library, Jill’s still going on about how he “works all day.”
Yeah, law school is hard work, we imagine, but we all know what’s happening here.
And her Instagram follwers were quick to call her out.
Several of them asked if he was working, and one straight out told her “He doesn’t work though.”
“Full time college is not a job!” another explained. “Does it pay him? No.”
“His ‘job’ is law school,” someone else wrote, “and their only source of income is the excessive **link in bio** posts. He’s not remarkable in the slightest.”
For another explanation, one person theorized that “Jill uses ‘working’ to describe anytime Derick steps over the threshold into the world.”
Hilariously, another of Jill’s followers said that “She is so desperate for him to look good, you’d think he discovered penicillin.”
Like we said, it’s great that Derick is setting himself up for a good career by going to law school, and we’re sure it is hard work.
But why is it so insanely difficult for anyone in this family to admit that the man is unemployed?
Monday, September 10, 2018
Jill Duggar Announces Birth of Another Family Baby!
Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard are already parents to Israel and Samuel, and have taught their boys all about “God’s plan for sex” using a hate-filled children’s book.
It turns out that this fundamentalist take on sex education came just in time, because the Dillard family had another baby on the way.
Now, Jill has gleefully announced, the new baby has been born.
“So excited for another Dillard baby!! …” Jill wrote on Instagram beside a black-and-white photo of the newborn.
The baby, of course, is not hers.
Jill’s post continued: “Congrats @deena.dillard and @justdand.”
Those are Denna and Dan Dillard, her in-laws through her husband, Derick.
She also shared her nephew’s name, writing: “We can’t wait to meet baby Jax!”
Jill concluded her congratulatory post with the hashtags: “#firstDillardcousin #jaxonmichaeldillard”
Jax’s mom also had some happy words to share.
“We are so excited to introduce Jaxon Michael Dillard to the world,” Deena writes on Instagram.
“He came at 9:11pm on Sept 5th,” Deena shares. “He weighs 6lbs 7oz and is 19 inches long.”
“He’s absolutely perfect in every way,” Deena gushes. Awww!
“During our skin to skin time,” Deena adds. “@justdand prayed the sweetest prayer of thanksgiving and blessing over our little family.”
“We are so grateful for God’s sweet blessing of Baby Jax,” Deena concludes.
Not content to write an Instagram post, Jill also took to her family blog to congratulate Deena and Dan.
“We are so excited for Dan and Deena (Derick’s brother and sister-in-law) on their new arrival!” Jill writes.
“Israel and Samuel are thrilled to have their first Dillard cousin,” Jill adds. “And we are so excited to have our first Dillard nephew!”
Jill reveals that they haven’t seen little Jax in person yet, but writes: “We all look forward to meeting him soon!”
“Y’all are such great parents already and we are so happy for you,” Jill writes to the new parents. “Welcome to this wonderful parenting journey!”
Jill and Derick and Deena and Dan are no strangers to congratulating each other.
“I would like to wish my sister-in-law @jillmdillard the happiest of birthdays!” Deena wrote on Jill’s birthday, back in May.
Though Derick’s bigoted attacks had gotten the couple in trouble, Deena sang Jill’s praises, writing: “She is a wonderful mother who loves Jesus so much!”
Deena even praised Jill and Derick’s missionary work, adding: “She’s even willing to raise her kiddos in the most challenging conditions in order to bring the Gospel to the nations.”
“We are blessed to know her,” Deena concluded at the time.
Derick and Jill are controversial, even compared to other Duggar family couples.
Their missionary work raised some eyebrows from fans who are concerned about their parenting — and from others who want to know why the couple is always begging fans for cash.
Derick’s transphobic attacks on fellow TLC star Jazz Jennings were not only despicable (what grown man tweets attacks on a teenage girl?), but ended the couple’s reality television career.
A lot of fans — even those who genuinely like Derick and Jill despite everything — aren’t confident that they know what they’re doing when it comes to raising children.
But it’s nice to see them celebrate a normal family milestone. They have their very first Dillard nibling! Maybe their kids will be close with Jax.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Jill Duggar Comes Clean: Here"s How I"ve Been Making Money Since Quitting Counting On!
Back in 2017, Derick Dillard was fired from Counting On after launching a bigoted tirade against a fellow TLC star on social media.
Shortly thereafter, his wife, Jill Duggar, quit the show, thus leaving the Dillard clan with no apparent source of income.
These days, Derick is planning to attend law school, but fans are understandably curious about how he and Jill plan to support their two sons while he begins the very lengthy process of becoming an attorney.
Now, it looks as though we may have our answer.
Jump into the gallery below to learn the surprising secret behind Jill"s financial comeback.
1. The Breadwinner
In many respects, Jill is as traditional as her fundamentalist parents. But in one important way, she’s very much a woman of the 21st century.
2. One Ugly Rant
Last year, Derick was fired from Counting On after he launched an appalling tirade against fellow TLC star Jazz Jennings.
3. The Victim
Jazz is a transgender teen, and she became the surprise target of Derick’s wrath for reasons that remain a mystery.
4. The Subservient Wife
Jill quit the show shortly after Derick was fired, seemingly as a show of support for her husband.
5. A Tight Spot
The move left Jill and Derick without any visible means of support, and for months fans were baffled as to how the family was getting by.
6. Duggar Finances
Sure, Jill’s parents are well-off, but they also have a LOT of kids to support. So how has Jill been supporting herself and her family this year?
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