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jillmdillard/Instagram
Jill Duggar Dillardshared an emotional milestone about her highly anticipated memoir.
Less than two months after she announced the release date of her new bookCounting the Cost,she shared what it was like to see her words in print.
“Things got real when I printed off the manuscript for my book,#CountingTheCost,” she wrote in anInstagram post on Wednesday.“It was now one step closer to being out there.”
“I cried and prayed over it,” the mom of three, who co-wrote it with husbandDerick Dillard, continued. “It’s been an emotional journey and one that wasn’t easy for me to write about.”
She also took to her Instagram Stories to show off the manuscript, noting it was a “surreal experience” to print the copy for the first time.
“I’m looking forward to the next step – getting my own hard copy – and y’all getting to read it before too long,” she said in the video. “It won’t be long now.”
The book will be released on Sept. 12, and promises to reveal “the unedited truth” about her family. She and her husband, 34, wrote in a joint statement onInstagramthat the book “is meant to reflect a story that has been difficult, yet hopeful.”
She also recently shared that she had"been so busy"writing the book.
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TheCounting Onalum first came into the public eye when she was 17 and her family became the subject of national attention with19 Kids and Counting’sdebut in 2008.
In his statement to PEOPLE at the time, Josh said, “Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends.”
Josh was later arrested in April 2021 and convicted in May 2022 for receiving and possessing child sexual abuse materials.He was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prisonand ordered to pay fines and special assessments of $50,100.
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The family’s story resurfaced in June with the release of Amazon Prime’sShiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secretsdocuseries. Thefour-part limited seriesexamines their ties toThe Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP)as well as Josh’s child pornography scandal.
“☀️I’m so incredibly grateful for my man @derickdillard ❤️,” she captioneda photo of herself kissinghim. “His support means the world to me. ☀️ Thanks babe! 😘💞”
The couple married in 2014,and worked on the upcoming book together to explore the “red flags” that she started to notice about herconservative independent Christian Baptist upbringingafter tying the knot.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.
source: people.com
