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Jinger Duggar Opens Up About 'Not Perfect' Dynamic With Her Parents

19 Kids and Counting’s Jinger Duggar admitted ‘everything’s not perfect’ with her parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, but she still loves them

I shared a lot of difficulties that I struggled with throughout my childhood, but at the end of the day, I’m grateful for my parents,” Jinger, 31, said during a Wednesday, June 12, appearance on Matt and Abby Howard ’s “Unplanned” podcast. Jinger also recalled telling her family she’d written a book about her experience growing up with the fundamentalist Christian teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). Michelle Duggar and Jim Bob Duggar.D Dipasupil/Getty Images for ExtraJinger rose to fame on her family’s TLC reality series, 19 Kids and Counting, which premiered in 2008 and ran for seven seasons.

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