Revelations from "Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets"

[tillychar]

Jill Duggar Dillard goes on the record about her famous family and what it was really like. https://t.co/FZHzKUC5hp
- POPSUGAR (@POPSUGAR) June 2, 2023

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is now available on Prime. The 4 part series features a group of survivors of the Institute of Basic Life Principles (or IBLP), a far right religious sect

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[yami_no_hoshi]

Will be watching this tonight!

[anterrabre]

• Family friends Jim and Bobye Holt were also interviewed. Their daughter Kaeleigh was courting Josh (dating but with the purpose of marriage, basically) a couple of years after Josh was caught molesting his sisters. When the Holts found out, Jim said Jim Bob flat-out admitted that they were using Kaeleigh as a "carrot" to try to correct Josh's abusive behaviour. Jim Bob also said they planned for Josh to tell Kaeleigh after they were married.

Jesus Christ, can you imagine being told that your daughter will be used to "straighten out" someone's perversity, and that she wouldn't be told until AFTER the arranged marriage? Thank the goddess Jim Holt cared enough about his daughter to say Hell No to that. That was a armour piercing bullet dodged.

Fuck Derick homophobic and transphobic ass. I still haven't forgotten all the ugly things he said about Jazz and Nate Berkus's family.

[tillychar]

yeah, jim holt is a piece of shit in his own way but i'm glad kaeleigh could get the hell out of there. it's so bleak that actually caring about your daughter's happiness and safety is the exception rather than the rule amongst their circles.

[ladyjj]

I remember from my research for my posts on the Duggars that it was JIM-BOB who broke the engagement to punish Josh, then allegedly picked Anna for him instead. At least Bobye Holt testified against Josh during the trial after Jim-Bob tried to have her blocked. Jim Holt is shit, fuck him.

[tlovesdolphin]

I'd bet Jimbob is behind her not leaving his jailbird ass now too. I wonder what he has on her. Even religious dogma isn't enough for most women to stay with a convicted child molestor who's in prison.

[goodnightsong]

The audacity to say this should have been discussed privately when they had cameras shoved in their kids faces for years - without payment- and making their daughter sign a contract without question to have her labor filmed.

I’ll be watching despite knowing how angry it’s going to make me feel.

[hiimtish]

And we all know their idea of ‘discussing’ something is surely just Jim Bob steamrolling over any concerns that are voiced

[tlovesdolphin]

I really think there needs to be some laws written. Hollywood had to do it for their child stars, reality tv should have to do it as well. Fucking ridiculous that people can use their children to fund their lives for the entire childhood and leave the kid with nothing and they usually don't have any recourse or skills to be independent after its over.

[la_geni]

They do have them for kids in Hollywood. It was all because of Macaulay Culkin. Kids on sets have to have a tutor, can’t work more than a certain amount of hours, and a part of their earnings has to be put away for them in the bank. The problem is these rules don’t seem to extend to youtube etc. That would be where I would start if I was a Duggar. I’d fight the system like Macaulay did.

[ladyjj]

Jim said Jim Bob flat-out admitted that they were using Kaeleigh as a "carrot" to try to correct Josh's abusive behaviour. Jim Bob also said they planned for Josh to tell Kaeleigh after they were married.

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I really want Jim Bob to burn in the deepest pit of Hell that possibly exists.

[yurasama_love]

And Michelle. She knew.

[ladyjj]

Michelle is def complicit in this bullshit.

I am making myself watch this tonight, just as a reminder to myself that my fundie mother needs to be held accountable for this bullshit she put me and my sister through.

[insomniachobs]

Parentifying and financially exploiting your children while ignoring one of them being a sexual abuser. Lord those parents are pieces of shit

Though I'm also really horrified at TLC enforcing that birth clause. Yes she should have read the contract before signing but holy fuck, even if she had read it and just changed her mind... what a fucking soulless thing to do. Just take back some of the money you paid her asshole father and let her give birth in peace

edit: No autocorrect I did not mean "prettifying." Yeesh.

[mila_s_garden]

mte, forcing a woman to film her giving birth must be some form of obstetric violence. Nevermind that she signed that contract without any legal assistance

[xdecadentx]

Yeah I agree about TLC, even if she signed it, if she changed her mind there should be wiggle room.

[yurasama_love]

TLC is garbage that takes advantage of uneducated and naive people