(The book, published under her maiden name, was written with her husband, Derick Dillard, and author Craig Borlase.) The book details how reality TV made Jim Bob into a wealthy man with an expansive real estate portfolio and a fleet of airplanes at the expense of his children - especially the daughters who juiced TLC’s ratings with each marriage and pregnancy.Įven though Duggar was a major moneymaker for TLC - her televised 2014 wedding to Dillard brought in a record 4.4 million viewers - she alleges that she was not paid for starring in the programs until she waged a protracted, painful legal battle with her parents. “Counting the Cost” paints a critical - if also loving - portrait of family patriarch Jim Bob Duggar, whose obsession with capitalizing on the family’s “window of opportunity” and belief in his God-given authority over his offspring led to their financial exploitation, creating painful rifts that remain unresolved. But she has plenty to say about her family’s finances, the toxic dynamic created by their TV stardom and the role that faith played in it all. However, Duggar is not here to expose every family secret she does not elaborate on the sexual abuse she allegedly experienced as a child - she remains adamant that the information should never have become public - and her brother Josh is a marginal figure in the story. The book details Duggar’s decision to walk away from “Counting On” in 2017 - after spending roughly half her life on camera - and her transformation from the cheerful daughter nicknamed “Sweet Jilly Muffin” into a grown woman who wears pants, uses birth control and drinks the occasional piña colada. In “Counting the Cost,” a memoir released on Tuesday, Duggar sheds unprecedented light on the inner workings of her sprawling Christian fundamentalist family, who rose to fame on the cable network TLC and later saw their empire crumble when first-born son Josh Duggar was convicted on child pornography charges in 2021. Instead, she’s now calling out her family for exploiting her on reality TV. For more than a decade, Jill Duggar was the wholesome star of “ 19 Kids and Counting” and “ Counting On,” the sweetly obedient daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar who became the first woman in the family to marry and seemed destined to follow in her parents’ footsteps.
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