
Amy Duggar, who first appeared on 19 Kids and Counting seventeen years ago, is releasing her memoir, Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Truth, on October 14th. The book shares her experiences growing up alongside her famous cousins.
Amy’s mother, Deanna Duggar, is Jim Bob Duggar’s sister, making Amy a niece to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. She grew up with a large extended family, as Jim Bob and Michelle have nineteen children.
Amy described being very close to her cousins during childhood, often feeling like a sister to them, and spent a lot of time at their house. She appeared on 19 Kids and Counting from 2008 to 2015 and made occasional appearances on the show Counting On, which ended in 2021. However, she didn’t receive any payment for her time on the show. Despite being part of the TV family, Amy writes in her memoir that she often felt distant from her cousins when they weren’t filming, and that they sometimes treated her like a fan when they met outside of work.