Jill Duggar Dillard did NOT exclude her controversial dad from her Father’s Day post… but at what cost?
Despite a very rocky past, fans were surprised to notice Jim Bob made it into a glowing Instagram tribute to the men in Jill’s life on Sunday — including her husband Derick, with whom she shares three sons, as well as her late father-in-law. But fans think her comments about Jim Bob were shady AF!
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The 19 Kids and Counting star’s post started with glowing praise for her husband, naturally. The Counting the Cost author shared:
“Happy Father’s Day to my wonderful hubby @derickdillard
ILYSM and I’m so proud of you and I know your dad would be too. Watching you with our kids melts my heart and reminds me how blessed I am to get to do life with you by my side! Thanks for loving well and pointing us back to Jesus through all the ups and downs. xoxoxo”
Sweet!
She also included a shout-out to Derick’s father, whom she never even got to meet before he passed. She wrote:
“And to my Father-in-law, whom I never had the privilege of meeting this side of eternity…thank you. I get a little glimpse every day into the man you were just by being married to a wonderful son you helped raise. Thank you for teaching him to love Jesus, work hard, treat women with respect, be a man of integrity and not be afraid to show compassion and care to others. I am forever grateful and look forward to catching up in person one day on the other side!”
So kind, right?! And this is about a guy she never knew! So, she must’ve had something just as nice to say about her own father then, huh? Why include him in the tribute if not, right? Well…
Referencing her childhood with the patriarchy-loving patriarch, Jill said:
“And happy Father’s Day to my own dad @duggarfam who always made time for us kids and kept things exciting and adventurous growing up, including the family bike rides, work days at the car lot, meals of cold butter beans with ketchup and BBQ tunafish sandwiches.”
Uhhh. She’s grateful for “work days” and “cold butter beans”?! LMFAO!
Fans couldn’t help but point out the apparent shade, noting in the comments:
“It reads like perfect snark after all [Jim Bob] got was ‘work days at the car lot’ and ‘cold butter beans.’ I never know if that type of shade is intentional with her of if this is her earnestly trying to find something nice to say about him, but it gave me a good laugh anyway.”
“The fact that Jill was more loving about her father-in-law whom she had never met than she is towards her own dad says a lot. Like I’ve said, it tells me that there still is tension between Jill and her dad/most of her siblings.”
“That is a pretty strange group of memories. You can tell she doesn’t like her dad that much anymore.”
“It’s shade.”
“Oh I know what this is. Coming from a person who shades their own family online, but who has to do it in the most vague cryptic way possible, I salute her for her mastery of this extremely effective strike.”
Hah!
Jill has had a complicated past with her family — and especially her dad — for years now. Back in 2019, Derick claimed they had to get permission from Jim Bob to visit the family home, including when Jill was needed to help her sister Jessa give birth. The couple has also accused Jim Bob of withholding their earnings from their TLC shows, including the spin-off Counting On. And when Jill released her 2023 memoir, in which she got candid about being the victim of molestation by her brother Josh, among other things, she revealed she was hardly speaking to her estranged parents at the time and hadn’t seen them in over a year!
So, honestly, the fact Jim Bob was even mentioned feels like a big deal! And he even appeared in the carousel of family photos. Look:
But do y’all think she was being shady or not?! Tell us (below).
[Image via Jill Duggar Dillard/Jim Bob Duggar/Instagram]
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