Jill Dillard was once one of the most popular Duggar children — in fact, when Counting On began in 2015, it was meant to be about her and her sister Jessa Duggar Seewald, as noted by Entertainment Weekly. However, when her husband, Derick Dillard, was reportedly fired by TLC in 2017, Jill also disappeared from the show. While some fans assumed her departure was because of her husband's transphobic comments towards fellow TLC star Jazz Jennings of I Am Jazz fame, others have speculated that Jill just isn't on great terms with her parents, according to Showbiz CheatSheet.
Whether or not Jill is, in fact, feuding with her parents, it's clear that she is no longer under their strict influence. In 2020, Jill shared a blog post explaining that she'd enrolled her son in public school, a bold departure from her own upbringing. She wrote, "This week we went and got Israel registered for kindergarten. It's hard to believe he will be five this year! We have already been homeschooling him some, but decided it would be fun to let him go to kindergarten this year."
Notably, Jill has also ditched the strict Duggar dress code, opting to swap out long skirts for shorts.
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