The more we find out about the Duggars’ response to Josh’s arrest on child pornography charges, the more it becomes apparent that he was only able to get away with so much because of the manner in which he was enabled by those around him.
When Josh…
Despite Amy Duggar’s compassion for her relatives, she is on the outs with much of the Duggar clan.
Why? Because she lives a relatively normal life. Because she has her own ideas. Because she speaks out.
There is still a lot that Amy cannot say about Jim Bob, due to an infamous NDA that restricts her speech.
But a new report has revealed that Amy was at one point invited to Dancing with the Stars … but Jim Bob interfered.
The Sun reports that Amy Duggar could have had a standalone reality dance competition gig.
“She was offered to go on Dancing with the Stars,” an insider shared.
“But,” the source continued, “Jim Bob would not let her do it.”
According to the report, this was not the only incident when Jim Bob gig-blocked his niece.
“She’s had many opportunities for shows,” the insider added.
The fact that Amy has not appeared on these shows seems to indicate that Jim Bob was still, perhaps even to this day, is holding her back.
There is also a chance that Amy could take an appearance now if it were offered, but has not been invited due to Josh Duggar’s scandal.
Seven years ago, the world learned that he is a sexual predator.
Now, he has been convicted and sentenced for CSAM, but even Amy’s strong Josh-critical stance might not be enough to remove the Duggar stigma for most audiences.
Why would Jim Bob prevent Amy from taking an offer like that?
On the surface, you would think that it’s perfect for his sinister agenda to promote the Duggar brand and a sanitized version of their extreme lifestyle.
But it’s that very lifestyle that would make him interfere with Amy dancing, with or without stars, in the first place.
It may sound like a joke to most of us, but the Duggar cult does not believe in dancing, or in listening to “worldly music.”
The plot of Footloose was not conjured up out of nowhere. Long before the Duggar cult arose, this was actually more common in small town America.
(Anyone else have a grandparent tell you about sneaking out to go dancing as a teen in the 1940s?)
So not only would doing the show have meant Amy doing the devil’s leg-movements, but she would not have been dancing alone.
Dancing is done with a dance partner on these shows, and while the relationship is professional, it violates the extreme rules of the Duggar cult’s fundamentalist beliefs.
A lot of dancing involves front-hugging, bare arms, bare legs, and moving one’s hips. Anathema to the way that women are required to present themselves in the Duggar household.
Jim Bob may have had another, more pragmatic concern: financial independence.
For years, he has been known to use his wealth (including the money pocketed from years of reality television, with checks paid to him and not to his family) to control his adult children.
Amy was already “too” normal for the Duggar brand as it is. Giving her financial independence from television appearances could put her in a position to lift her cousins out of his grasp. He can’t have that.
We’ve been saying it for years now. Jim Bob Duggar practices a sexist and controlling form of religion — and should never have been given a platform on reality TV. The recent child porn trial of his son Josh has put to the forefront his greatest sin — yeah, we said it! — sweeping actual […]
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Even though Jessa Duggar has spoken about past troubles very openly, fans are still understandably concerned.
Is she really happy in her marriage. Can she ever be happy living a life that she didn’t really choose for herself?
These worries date back to a time before Jessa learned how to kiss from her parents, when she had her own thoughts and ideas.
Fans don’t have to guess how Jessa’s parents molded her to please her then-future husband. They saw it themselves on TV.
Jessa and Ben have been married for eight years.
However, a 19 Kids & Counting clip has been making the rounds — one that showed Jessa getting advice from the worst person to ask: her mother.
At the time, Jessa was simply in a courtship with Ben, but she wasn’t sure what to make of him and turned to Michelle for help.
“I am in a courtship with a wonderful man named Ben Seewald, and we’ve been courting for about four months now,” Jessa explained to the camera.
“It’s been good. I’m missing him, though,” viewers saw her tell Michelle.
“So he’s like super-emotional like a feeling kind of person and I’m really not, you know that,” Jessa explained to Mommy Dearest.
“I’m kind of just like, cut and dry,” Jessa noted.
“And,” she detailed, “so he’s always texting me like the sweetest things. “He’s like ‘If I had all the flowers in the world, all the rose gardens in the world I’d give them all to you.'”
Jessa very humorously continued: “And I’m like ‘Uh, where would I put em?'”
Unfortunately, this is when Michelle — the product of decades of cult brainwashing — offered her version of relationship advice.
“Even though I know that typically you just are real, you know, plain and simple about things, you probably should say something like ‘Oh Ben, that is so sweet, oh thank you!'” she suggested.
Michelle continued: “However he expresses love is probably the way that he receives it as well.”
“And on your part, you probably will practice learning how to express that love language that he needs to hear from you to him,” Michelle advised.
“And,” she admitted, “it’s a learning process.”
While learning to communicate is important, that sounded incredibly one-sided … and that’s what social media users are saying, too.
“This is gross,” commented a redditor after the clip circulated. “They act like Jessa has some kind of defect.”
The commenter continued: “There is nothing wrong with being direct and not demonstrative.”
Sagely, the redditor observed: “This is why these people need to stop marrying the first person they meet.”
“They needed time to find out if their personalities complemented each other or not,” the commenter reasoned.
“If Ben needed someone to reciprocate his romantic personality,” the Reddit comment went on, “he deserved that.”
They continued: “If Jessa can’t do that for him, she deserved someone who fit her better too.”
“She would’ve had much more fun with someone who also had a dry sense of humor and could push her, intellectually I mean,” a second redditor explained.
“I don’t mean someone mean and sarcastic,” the comment clarified, “but just someone who would get her.”
The commenter observed: “I think she’s lost a lot of herself in marriage.”
“She could have been more tactful in her response, but yeah, this was clearly a sign that they were not a good match,” a third chimed in.
“It’s sad that they encouraged her to double down and change her personality,” the redditor lamented, “rather than end the courtship.”
Another agreed: “I think it’s sick. Michelle’s response is gross. Others is not as gross, but close. Frightening how people think girls should be raised.”
“Sooooo….how come it’s all on her to learn his love language,” asked another.
“Why does she have to give and receive in HIS preferred way?” the commenter pointed out.
“Why isn’t she being encouraged to give in his love language and communicate her own so he can learn to give love to her in HER preferred way???Grrrrrrrr,” another expressed.
“They think that Jessa having her own romantic style is some sort of bad thing when that is not the case,” another stated.
That more or less summarizes the Duggar cult’s beliefs: women must warp themselves to ideally suit their husbands, not just sexually but in personality.
To them, Jessa’s literal-minded wit was a personality flaw because it was a sign of independent personhood, rather than something molded to please the man who is now her husband.
Only a handful of Duggars were on hand last week to see Josh Duggar get sentenced to 12 and a half years in federal prison.
Most of the family steered clear of the sentencing hearing, and only Josh’s wife, Anna, his father, Jim Bob, and his sister …
Josh Duggar‘s wife Anna is being accused of “manipulation” by getting the Duggar family pastor’s widow to write a letter to the judge prior to the disgraced reality TV star’s prison sentence on child porn charges. As we’ve been reporting, Anna and Josh’s mom, Michelle Duggar, were the only two immediate family members to write letters of […]
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When Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison last week, only four members of his massive family were in the courtroom.
Wife Anna, father Jim Bob, sister Joy-Anna and her husband Austin Forsyth were on hand for the sentencing hear…
Last week, Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison in connection with an earlier conviction on child pornography charges.
In the weeks prior to his sentencing hearing, Josh’s wife, Anna Duggar, launched a desperate, last-ditch ef…
As you’ve likely heard by now, Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 and a half years in federal prison last week.
The sentencing hearing came nearly six months after Josh was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography.
The day that he was…
Last week, Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison in connection with his earlier conviction on child pornography charges.
While most of his family members were not in attendance at the sentencing hearing, several Duggars showed …
Kaeleigh Holt dated Josh Duggar back when the pair were 14 years old.
She appeared on the Duggar Family’s 2006 TLC special, 16 Children and Moving In (a precursor to 19 Kids and Counting) and her name made the social media rounds a few months ago b…
We’ve heard from several of Josh Duggar‘s family members since his prison sentence was handed down this week. Though we are talking about the 19 Kids and Counting clan here, so in the grand scheme 3 or 4 Duggars is nothing. Most of the fam is actually keeping quiet. We wouldn’t be surprised if that’s from remaining […]
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On Wednesday, May 25, Josh Duggar was sentenced to twelve years in prison following his CSAM conviction in December.
The depraved former reality star leaves behind his seven children (thankfully) and his wife, Anna Duggar.
Amy has very visibly reached out to Anna. She has also attempted to make contact behind the scenes.
None of her efforts have been successful, and Amy believes that her cousin-in-law either misunderstands her intentions … or is being silenced.
Amy Rachelle King, better known as Amy Duggar, spoke to The Sun about her attempts at extending an olive branch.
“It’s been months,” she admitted. “It’s been a long time.”
Amy specified her last successful contact with Anna: “It’s been last November? When all of this was starting.”
“She was happy,” Amy recalled of that conversation in November.
“You know how that happy look is,” she noted, referring to how women in the Duggar cult are expected to smile and radiate joy no matter what.
Amy noted: “She acted like nothing was wrong.”
Even without speaking directly, Amy has made a very public plea to her disgraced cousin’s wife, to no avail.
“I know that Anna checks her Instagram,” she noted.
Amy explained: “I thought, ‘Okay, could tag her in it and maybe she could see it.’”
The public Instagram post was a desperate measure, and not her first choice on how to speak to family.
“She’s not answering text messages,” Amy lamented. “She’s not answering phone calls.”
She emphasized: “I know she has a large account and she does scroll on Instagram.”
“That’s a way to reach out and say I am here for her,” Amy reasoned.
She recalled asking herself: “How do you stay silent when something is so heartbreaking?”
Amy expressed: “Anna is being silenced or choosing to be silent or she’s choosing not to believe the real hard true facts of what’s happening.”
“If I were Anna, I can’t imagine the kind of mental state I would be in,” Amy admitted.
“It’s going to take a lot of time for her to really understand what’s happening,” she acknowledged.
Amy lamented: “It’s just really sad.”
As far as Amy knows, Anna could have read the post — or seen it and ignored it, or possibly somehow missed it entirely.
Either way, she has not heard a peep from her cousin-in-law.
“Maybe she thinks I’m after fame or likes on Instagram,” Amy suggested, seemingly at a loss for why Anna has not replied.
“That was saying I feel for you. Anna, I love you,” Amy explained.
“I’ve loved you since day one,” she emphasized.
“I want her to know how sincere it truly is,” Amy stressed.
“Everyone just wants the best for her and her children,” Amy affirmed.
“And,” she added, “for them to be safe and protected.”
Of course, for any of that to happen, Josh’s prison term was pretty necessary … which may be why Anna is seemingly at odds with her.
Amy has been a vocal critic of Josh following his arrest, neither pretending that he is innocent as Anna has done nor limiting her statements as Jim Bob would certainly prefer.
Anna has appeared to be completely in denial, even spinning wild conspiracy theories about her husband’s case, and it appears that his conviction in December has not changed that.
What Amy knows, what the rest of us must remember, is that Anna is also a victim of this sinister cult. A lifetime of brainwashing to worship her husband does not go away overnight.
As you’ve likely heard by now, Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 and a half years in federal prison on Wednesday.
Reaction to the news has been mixed, with some commenters expressing relief that Josh won’t be able to damage any more lives for a few y…
Jason Duggar is speaking out in support of his brother, convicted child porn watcher Josh Duggar. On Thursday morning, the 22-year-old Counting On alum wrote a multi-post message and published it on his Instagram account, revealing his candid reaction to Josh’s recent 12-and-a-half-year prison sentence for receiving and possessing child pornography. Related: Josh Duggar’s Lawyer Objects To Him […]
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How is this for some sad and delicious irony?
For many years, observers have remarked that Anna Duggar might as well be living in a prison… based on how trapped she has appeared to be in a loveless marriage, relying on her in-laws for housing and…
