Josh, who was home-schooled, accompanied him frequently to the Capitol in Little Rock, where the beat reporters called him "the governor." Jim Bob was a state legislator in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002 before a couple of failed bids for national office. Reporting on the family in 2005, the Dallas Morning News included "the Duggar house rules" that were posted in the dining area, among which were "Always use soft words, even when you don't feel well," "Have sincere motives with no thought of self-gain," and "Think pure thoughts."
Discovery Health featured the Duggars in several hour-long specials, leading to the premiere of then- 17 Kids and Counting in 2008.
The New York Times ran the image, after which Parenting magazine reached out to Michelle about writing an article. Meanwhile, the family had been making the most of their spotlight for a decade, the inordinate number of them having first attracted nationwide attention in 2003 when an AP photographer snapped a photo of Jim Bob and Michelle out voting with 14 kids in tow. The schadenfreude, coming from those who never bought into the brand of family values the Duggars preached, was thick. He checked into a "long-term treatment center" for six months, retreating from public life. His parents and sisters Jilland Jessasat down with Fox News' Megyn Kelly that June for a surreal interview, in which Jessa called Josh's actions "very wrong" but accused In Touch of exploitation. Then in July, TLC canceled the family's hit show, 19 Kids and Counting, after nine seasons.Īnd in case none of that was humiliating enough, a month later a massive data breach at the extramarital-affair dating site Ashley Madison revealed that Josh apparently had an account.
He stepped down from his post as executive director of Family Research Council Action, the FRC being a Christian lobbying group known for its conservative stances on political and cultural issues. It's been six years since the Duggar family's dusty skeletons were first yanked out of the closet.Īccording to a police report, Josh Duggar, the eldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children, was accused of molesting five underage girls, including four of his sisters, back when he was a teenager in the early 2000s.Ī married father of three with another on the way when In Touch Weeklyshocked the world with its stomach-turning scoop in May 2015, Josh's life started to unravel in rapid fashion.
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