Amazon will premiere a brand new miniseries which can shine a light-weight on Jim Bob Duggar’s ‘cult-like’ strategy to his large Baptist household.
Shiny Blissful Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques might be launched in June on Prime Video after TLC initially promised the revealing documentary again in December.
After showing on screens for seven years in 17, 18 and 19 Children and Counting, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar will as soon as once more have their unconventional household life uncovered.
The docu-series might be produced by the identical workforce behind LuLaRich, which explored a multi-level advertising and marketing scheme.
Their newest mission guarantees to shine a light-weight on the Duggar’s affiliation with the Christian organisation, the Institute in Primary Life Rules, which some have deemed a cult.
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The Duggars’ 29-year-old daughter Jinger even agreed the IBLP was “cult-like” in a current interview again in January.
Chatting with PEOPLE, she revealed: “Worry was an enormous a part of my childhood.
“I believed I needed to put on solely skirts and clothes to please God. Music with drums, locations I went, or the improper friendships might all deliver hurt.
“[Bill's] teachings, in a nutshell, are primarily based on concern and superstition and depart you in a spot the place you're feeling like, ‘I do not know what God expects of me’.”
Jinger left the organisation in 2017 after complaining of “crippling nervousness” because of her “damaging” childhood.
Now, Jinger’s story and extra would be the focus of the brand new Amazon doc which can expose extra in regards to the Duggar’s IBLP-inspired homelife than ever earlier than.
The Christian motion was established by disgraced minister Invoice Gothard in 1961 and teaches ladies to be subservient and canopy their our bodies.
Members are additionally inspired to give attention to having kids, which led the Duggars to keep away from contraception claiming God would decide what number of kids they might have.
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“The instructing I grew up underneath was dangerous, it was damaging, and there are lasting results,” Jinger stated.
“I do know different persons are struggling and people who find themselves nonetheless caught.”
Jinger revealed extra in a tell-all ebook titled Turning into Free Certainly which she wrote after she “started to query the unhealthy ideology of her youth”.
The brand new collection will now raise the lid on her dad and mom, who proceed to talk at IBLP seminars and observe its teachings.
Additionally it is anticipated to delve into the troubled historical past of the organisation, which culminated in founder Gothard strolling away from his management place in 2014 when greater than 30 ladies accused him of sexual harassment.
Gothard maintained his innocence and responded to the declare in The Washington Publish: “Oh no. By no means by no means.
“By no means in my life have I touched a lady sexually. I’m shocked to even hear that.”