Spencer Hastings

Those dumb hats are so popular right now. Try being 5’2 and standing behind a woman wearing one at a concert. There’s no need to be wearing a flying saucer during a concert.

Abuse victim is a really heavy term to use. It’s 100% true so good for Derick calling a spade a spade. Someone connected to that family using the words abuse and victim is huge. Jill was a victim in so many ways. I wonder which incident he’s referring to? The molestation? The labor of raising other people’s kids? The brainwashing? The refusal to educate her? Did they tell her she HAD to go on tv and defend Josh or she would be sued? I wonder what Jill thinks about all of this. I’m entertained and curious, but I’m also concerned for her.

Yeah, I think that when Marjorie bailed, he was going to end up with whichever eligible girl showed up next. (Un)Fortunately, that girl was Drama Llama Lauren.

If I were a gambling kind of girl, I would bet that whatever contract JB had with TLC during 19K&C was never changed or renegotiated when the show became Counting On. TLC changed the name of the show and the “stars” for lip service or rebranding purposes but the money has always gone to JB. Yes, they “cancelled” 19 kids and we saw more of Jessa and Jill for a bit but we are essentially watching the same show today. They probably just waited for the dust to settle, took a hiatus, and carried on with a new name. Literally everything else, including who would get the paycheck, stayed the same.

Jill should be a cautionary tale for the littles and ALL of the kids, really. You can be the prison snitch and toe the party line to be blessed/highly favored, but in the end JB can and will turn on you.

If Jessa had gone into labor at TTH or knew it was imminent, she might’ve requested Jill’s help getting things started or wanted her there for comfort. Jessa may have wanted to be “home” (my parents’ house is still the only place I want to be when I’m sick or in pain) and have her sister there with her. JB is a straight up douche bag if he made them get permission in a situation like that.

Is JB afraid that Derick will start a revolution? Derick is a lot of things...a leader he is not.

A lot of reality show personalities have said that filming took a lot out of them emotionally. The Duggar kids have been doing this most of their lives, but I find it interesting that the Dillards were the only ones willing to step away from filming. It could be that most of the other spouses were already Duggar adjacents and used to being filmed (or wanted the spotlight...ahem), or it could simply be that Derick and Jill are naturally more emotional. I could see Jill slowly losing her mind over the course of the year of scandals. Not only having to let it all play out on camera, but also having to rehash it in the THs on camera could be damaging to her already fragile psyche. We know the woman has the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. Derick is full of it 99% of the time, but I could buy their mental state deteriorating.

My principal is a die hard, in your face vegan but she eats fish. Somehow that doesn’t count to her but she will call us all hypocrites for eating animals. 🙄

The co-founder was an alumnus of the private Christian college I went to. There’s actually a building on campus with her name on it.

People get up in arms about car seats straps being 1/8 of an inch off, I can’t believe she’d be dumb enough to post that.

Oh, Jill. The Instagram mommies are going to get you. 😔

I’m actually proud of Jill. She looks amazing! I’ve never been one to snark on her hair because I can’t grow my own hair past my shoulders and she should wear what makes her comfortable, but this is a huge move for her. Mentally and physically, this is one of the biggest Duggar changes we have seen. After hearing and sprouting off all the Godly benefits of long hair for her entire life, it was probably a bit of a shield for her. If her mental health has been in the state we have been suspecting for awhile now, this is a huge change towards her trying to move forward.

It’s difficult to form and maintain friendships as an adult, even when you’ve had a lifetime of experience and socialization with other people. The Duggars kids were doomed the minute JB and Michelle went off the deep end.

Excellent post. I’ve spoken a little on here about my own experiences as a sister mom. My parents had to work a lot when I was younger, so I basically gave up my jr. high and high school years to raise my siblings. Leaving for college was tough on all of us, to the point that no matter what I was doing, I’d call home every single night. You think Jennifer was a wreck during Jill’s wedding? That was nothing compared to my sister when I left home. I’m in my early 30s and my siblings are in their 20s, but they still call me when things go awry. I’m their emergency contact for pretty much everything. My parents are great and did what they had to do, but my siblings absolutely see me as the one who will fix things. Sister moms grow up and still feel the weight of the world on their shoulders. To this day I feel like I’ve pretty much raised my kids, and I’m not really sure what I would do with kids of my own. I don’t need a second set of kids while I’m trying to finally figure out who I am and have some freedom that I missed when I was younger. This is where I think Jill went left when she could’ve gone right. If you spent your childhood being responsible for everyone else, you need to be able to unload and figure out what you want. I’m just beyond that at this point in my life, and I can see Jill feeling the same way if she’d been given the chance to wait before having kids. She didn’t get a chance to find out who she was outside of being a sister mom or get a chance to breathe really. I don’t doubt that she loves her kids and I don’t doubt that she wanted to be a mom. But she needed a chance to detox first and that’s the difference between being a great sister-mom and an overwhelmed mother.

I’m not too ashamed to cry “uncle” on this one. It’s pretty evident to me that Jill is struggling with something right now (the clinginess, separation anxiety, overwhelmed with the boys, distant from her family...take your pick or all at once). At least Derick noticed and did SOMETHING/put forth effort to make her smile. That is probably more than most of her sisters and sister-in-laws can say. I hate giving credit for doing the bare minimum 99.99% of the time but this family..... I also wonder if she was aware of the Grandma Duggar funeral episode airing tonight and that just made everything more overwhelming for her. Jill definitely needs a decent therapist, maybe even more so than the others.

I was fine watching this until poor Jackson fell to pieces. The younger kids shouldn’t have had to be filmed during this private moment. It broke my heart seeing him weep by himself in the corner until Jed (?) finally gave him an obligatory pat on the shoulder. Amy was distraught and probably had a few opinions about the cameras being there in the first place. As for Deanna, I think she’s the one who found Grandma Duggar so I can imagine she’d still be pretty shell shocked. I would’ve been pissed if they’d showed her.

So much for Jesus, Others, Yourself. This is all about them, how special they are, and Jesus has been reduced to a footnote at the bottom. If they were truly standing out, they wouldn’t be losing influencer gigs based on her family’s beliefs. Jeremy is just as gross, but a lot of people are still gunning for her because she hasn’t denounced the Duggar cult’s backwardness. You’re not standing out or breaking out.

James is very young. Like 2 Js before Jackson young. So James/Lauren’s and Kendra/Joe’s kids will be cousins twice since their moms and dads are siblings? Not judging because my dad’s basically his own cousin...but their gene pool already looks so weak!

Boomerang is embedded in Instagram (at least it is on my phone). I don’t have an issue with him being silly or acting like a normal human being because my friends and I are the same. My issue is that he acts like he’s above it all and blatantly states that he doesn’t have social media on his phone. Boomerang is still under that social media umbrella.

Well, well, well, look who has Instagram on his phone (hint: it’s not Bin).

They’ll notice once they start counting their blessings and grand blessings.

“I’m freakin’ fantastic, so I’m gonna have a little break so they can make someone else the bad guy this next season because I’m not going to be on it!” Aside from the fact that she obviously can’t make any decisions singular of Paulie these days, she also lacks self-awareness. She’s always had a really good edit. For 12 or so seasons, her edit was really decent despite being full of herself and doing some really awful stuff to others. The bad guy edit didn’t come in until she started falling to pieces over men and losing her ever loving mind on camera. You can’t get a bad edit if you don’t give them material to work with.

Jinger is so boring. Cooking with Jill would’ve been a lot more entertaining, if only for the reaction videos we could’ve produced as “influencers.”