Jill Duggar says toxic relationship with Jim Bob destroyed by reality show, treatment of pedophile brother

Jill Duggar and her husband Derick Dillard starred in the hit reality series “19 Kids and Counting" and its spinoff “Counting On." They left in 2017, and are now detailing the struggles they endured while appearing on the popular TLC shows in a new book, "Counting the Cost."

The couple are now detailing the struggles they endured while appearing on the popular TLC shows in a new book, "Counting the Cost." Duggar, 32, told Fox News Digital that it’s been liberating to come clean. Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.

"It’s helped us process and disentangle our feelings," she explained about penning the memoir, which hit bookshelves Tuesday. "It’s been a cathartic process… This is not an isolated experience, just for reality TV or for large families… I hope people can relate to it and say, ‘I felt that too. I felt the isolation that breeds from control.’"