With The Duggar family's many rules, from banning beach trips to CCing their parents
on texts, it's no surprise that these conservative reality stars have to lead double lives.
At best, they're faking their kitchen skills.
At worst, well…we're not even going to get into the worst, because Josh would need his
own video entirely.
But here's a look at the rest of the Duggar family's attempts to hide their double lives.
Fired for being gay?
According to someone who allegedly worked on the show and spoke with Gawker, Michelle
Duggar once got a gay crew member fired after discovering his sexuality.
Back in 2008, when the family began preparations for its first trip to the Today Show in New
York City, a new crew member accidentally outed a gay member of the crew dubbed "Jimmy."
Michelle had reportedly approached producers to find out if New York was, quote, "scary
for kids" because she heard it was:
"Overrun by…gays [who may be] causing problems."
The new crew member turned to "Jimmy" and jokingly asked if he was causing any problems.
Michelle then pulled a producer to the side, started yelling, and demanded to know if "Jimmy"
was really gay.
"Jimmy" apparently responded with,
"Well, darling, depends on who's asking."
He was subsequently fired due to, quote, "causing conflicts with the talent," which is a unique
way of saying Michelle was intolerant.
"The truth comes out eventually, anyway, and it's not pretty."
Jill's family recipes
Jill Duggar might not be as skilled in the kitchen as fans are led to believe.
According to Inquisitr, the Counting On star has been accused of plagiarizing recipes and
posting them on her own blog.
The saga began when Jill posted a stuffed zucchini recipe and claimed,
"Our neighbors gave us a bunch of big zucchini right after we got married, and in trying
different recipes, I adapted them into my own and this one became a fave!"
Of course, adapting means you're changing something, which Jill seemed to have done
in a very minimal way when compared to a recipe on Allrecipes.com.
The photo, however, was exactly the same, but she later swapped it out.
Inquisitr also claimed that Jill admitted to lifting a slow cooker recipe from Chowhound,
and possibly lifted recipes from Salvadorian Recipes and SlideShare.
Her website now has a disclaimer that says:
"[Recipes] may have not originated on our site and/or have been adapted from other sites."
"Keep it wild"
You wouldn't expect any member of such an outwardly conservative family to have a wild
romp in the bedroom, but such is reportedly the case for Amy Duggar.
"What do you want from me?"
She tied the knot with her husband Dillon King in September 2015, and by her own account,
she's been experimenting with her sexuality ever since.
In a TMI interview with People, Amy admitted she gets down and dirty with her husband,
quote, "all the time."
To stave off the bedroom boredom that comes with spending so much time between the sheets,
Dillon claimed the pair likes to:
"Keep it fresh, keep it wild."
Apparently, that has something to do with the massage beds, firelight, candles and,
quote, "the whole shebang."
Though Amy and Dillon appeared on Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, it's pretty clear
they've worked out some of their issues.
Joy-Anna's shotgun wedding?
It's hard to pinpoint if Joy-Anna Duggar is a family rule breaker, although her 2017 pregnancy
raised a lot of questions among fans.
According to some conspiracy theorists, the Quiverfull Christian might not have been so
fearful when it came to the act of premarital sex.
According to the Daily Mail, Joy didn't help the rumors of a shotgun wedding to her fiance
Austin when the pair moved their wedding to four months earlier than the original October
2017 date.
InTouch reported that the speculation continued when fans accused the star of posting old
photos on Instagram to hide the fact that her baby bump was suspiciously large.
Some people speculated that Joy might be having twins, but People reported that she welcomed
just one baby boy in February 2018.
Mission work or vacation?
Jill and Derick came "under fire" in 2015 when fans questioned whether or not they used
mission donations to take a family holiday, according to Entertainment Tonight.
In July 2015, the Dillards shipped off to Central America with their then-five-month-old
baby to do some mission work.
They first solicited donations to their tax-exempt organization, Dillard Family Ministries, and
claimed,
"God has put a desire in our hearts to serve Him internationally for longer than the typical
short-term mission trip."
Unfortunately, it didn't really seem like the Dillards were doing as much mission work
as everyone thought, and it most certainly didn't seem as long-term as advertised.
Radar Online reported that the pair took a month-long break just two months into their
trip, which started to anger fans, who questioned what the donations were being used for.
Jill and Derick eventually relented to the backlash and put up information about obtaining
refunds on their donation page.
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