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Jinger Duggar: TLC Forced Me to Fake My Relationship!

The curtain is coming up on 19 Kids and Counting. The reality show aired for seven seasons on TLC and was canceled after Josh Duggar admitted he had molested his siblings as a young teenager.

(Instagram)In her latest book, People Pleaser: Breaking Free From the Burden of Imaginary Expectations, the former cast member delves into one specific way in which she was forced to fake various moments from her life for the camera. (Amazon)Jinger went on to reference filming with husband Jeremy Vuolo as “date-night-on-demand,” recalling how she was “instructed to repeat some of the same conversation and gestures” they’d made in a previous take. “Fast-forward a few months, and I found myself walking down the staircase in my house toward Jeremy, anticipating that we might be about to make our relationship official,” she writes, adding how a producer jumped in to ruin this special reveal.

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