Soon after the Duggar family imploded in an spectacular mess of child molestation, Ashley Madison accounts and affairs with p0rn stars, there were some random stories about how the Duggars were broke, or struggling for money somehow. They were apparently asking for donations and pleading with fans to buy their stuff, especially after TLC stopped airing 19 Kids & Counting. While I don’t doubt that it costs a lot to keep the S.S. Duggar afloat, I also believed that TLC paid the Duggars well enough, plus they have revenue streams from side-projects, likes books, speeches, etc. While Josh Duggar is persona non grata, the older kids still make some money, don’t they? Well, funny story. Jessa Duggar-Seewald is either so desperate for cash or desperate for attention that she’s giving out instructions on how “fans” can donate to her directly, with gift certificates and cash.
Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald have come under fire for encouraging fans to donate gift cards and money to the parents-to-be. In a post on the family’s blog — which has seemingly since been edited — the pregnant 22-year-old and her husband, 20, gave pretty specific instructions on how to send “donations” to the former 19 Kids and Counting stars, if they so desired.
According to The Ashley’s Reality Roundup, the since-deleted instructions read, “For readers who have asked about sending gift cards to the Seewalds, Jessa told us that her favorite stores are Target and Walmart.”
Additionally, they listed an address where fans could send cash directly, if they so desired.
Understandably, the request was met with some serious backlash in the comments section.
“Love the family, but I don’t think it’s right to give an address for gifts and gift cards,” one such fan wrote, per The Ashley’s Reality Roundup. “I may be wrong but TLC and their personal appearances [probably] pay them well…donate to a charity in their name.”
This comes shortly after Jessa’s older sister Jill came under fire and was accused of using fan donations — intended to fund her mission trip — to pay for a “family vacation.”
I would honestly love to know more about the finances of the Duggars. I would love to know if Jim-Bob and Michelle put money in trusts for all of their kids, considering their kids were “performers” on the TLC reality show. I would love to know if Jessa and Jill got extra money for their wedding specials. I would love to know if Jim-Bob withheld their “paychecks” if they didn’t do as he commanded. And yes, I would love to know how Jessa and Ben Seewald are supporting themselves. Jessa has no particular talent or skill set or education. She’s been angling for a reality show return for a few months now, and chica is REALLY thirsty. So, is she angling for a reality show and donations just because she wants attention, or because she and Ben are broke as hell? Or both?
PS… Late Thursday, TLC announced that they will be airing “two or more” specials just for Jessa and Jill’s journeys. One special will focus on Jessa’s pregnancy (and presumably the birth of her first child), and one special for Jill and Derick’s trip to Central America. I wonder how much Jill and Jessa are getting paid for these specials? I wonder if Jim-Bob gets a cut? I wonder if Jessa is doing separate negotiations with TLC for her own spinoff reality show? Chica really does not want to get a real job.
Photos courtesy of Jessa’s social media.
Scammers breed scammers who live to scam. News at eleven.
^^^THIS.
GET A JOB, you yobbos.
ETA: doesn’t this family love to crow about how they’ve never taken public assistance? guess that’s changed…
I suppose that by “public assistance” they mean welfare money, as opposed to the public assisting them…
Ankhel, lol.
oh, I know…but I really don’t see how they can make a distinction, at least on a literal level.
they’ll take from the public as donations, but not from gov’t, which is funded by the public?
either way, they’re asking for a handout, which goes against what they preach.
Eh, I’m pretty sure that as much as many people loathe this family there is another group that completely loves them. I have no doubt that those that think very highly of them would absolutely love to gift them things for the baby. Hence various requests for what and where to buy. That message was meant for them. While I would not think of sending my hard earned money to people I don’t know, there are those who would love to.
Why do people do this. I don’t know. I mean look at how the donations for Carson went up after his remarks about not having a Muslim president. So while some of you cannot believe they asked for money I believe it is entirely possible they did this because enough people asked them.
Apple and the tree.
I don’t believe any of them are broke, in the true sense of the word.
Perhaps not destitute but not living nearly as high on the hog as before. But Jessa also wants attention and adoration, not just the money and perks of reality TV notoriety.
I always got the impression that none of the Duggars were living “high on the hog.” They coupon and they shop at thrift shops for pete’s sake. Hopefully all of the kids have been been saving money. Asking outright for cash and gift certificates – ughhh! That’s icky.
Jessa is so pretty – dare I say it? – I wonder how long it’ll be before the porn industry comes a’knocking. That million dollar check might be super difficult for thirsty momma to turn down!
I’ve never watched the show but it’s my understanding that even before TLC came along, apparently, the Duggars have never had any debt, made their own clothes, and soaps, grew their own foods and basically built their house from straw. What I’m saying is, if they were surviving better that most people in the U.S., how could any of them possibly need handouts when they’ve been making millions from TV? Money that most will never ever see.
I’m sure they are aware that the Bible does state (and i’m paraphrasing) that if you don’t work, you don’t eat. As well as several warnings against being a sluggard and to follow the example of the hard working ants…etc etc etc.
Word. These people are trash. Their trashiness might be the only way in which they are pure. Eat your Chick-Fil-A, J-girl. Eat it and then post the photo. You are doing the Lord’s work.
@7-11 lol exactly!
A fool and their money are soon parted..
Anyone idiotic enough to give this family anything is a total fool!
I never watch TLC but at this point I want to do more than that. If anyone has a current list of advertisers please share so we can boycott them and send complaints the same way these nutcases boycott companies supporting Planned Parenthood and LGBT causes. Because I for one have had enough and I don’t want to fund these horrid people and that dirty excuse for a network.
Yes! This. I’ve never boycotted a network before, but this is it. Get these people off tv. Let them disappear into obscurity, please.
I don’t advocate public shaming but I think it’s high time the actual TLC execs get held accountable for the way they exploit the fringes of society and promote reprehensible behavior.
Who are the VPs of programming? Someone find their twitter accounts and publicly tell them that by continuing this garbage, they are promoting child molestation.
I was so disappointed when I heard TLC was bringing the money hungry Duggar sisters back for more shows. The fact that they are now begging for donations just proves the point that these are money grubbing parasites who will do anything to avoid actually having to work for a living. Every day certain sites show photos of fame/money hungry Jessa and her baby bump – does anyone really care? This just seems so inappropriate to still be catering to these homophobic, anti planned parenthood freaks.
I agree. It’s time to target the advertisers and hold them accountable.
TLC only dropped them because of the obvious crowd reaction. They were big time money makers for the station. You just watch, they’re brining on the sisters and little by little they will come back sans Josh. If they let that witch Kate Gosselin on for so long, anyone else would seem tame. Hate that beotch.
Agree 100 percent. Isn’t TLC the same network that had that Honey Boo-boo child on television? Forgive my ignorance, but I do not want reality television. I mean seriously, they brought us….the Duggars, and mothers who exploit their young daughters via beauty pageants (Honey Boo-boo). UGH! I refuse to believe that any of these networks were ignorant about the background of these people….and they truly are sad representations of todays’ society. Why should people like this have any kind of recognition other than a cautionary tale?
It honestly disgusts me. TLC, Jim Bob and Michelle, and all of the Duggars. It comes out there is something clearly wrong with your brother and all your family has done is cover for him-and the only thing they’re focused on is getting back on TV? They give Christians a bad name.
Totally! They are killing what Christianity is supposed to stand for. Not only are the promoting child molestation, but, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, lack of education and opportunities for females and just plain hatred. They are the supreme haters.
Yes!
CAN I GET A HELL-YES!!!!
(that was meant for obtaining an advertisers list – ill be first in line to not buy whatever theyre selling) (nasty)
HELL YES! Sign me up.
Kaiser, how do we go about it? getting a list of the advertisers, I mean? The other thing I thought of was starting a Change.org petition for TLC to cancel these new shows. What do you guys think? I rarely get so het up, normally I just shrug and go “meh, I choose what I watch” but this really beyond the pale, continuing to pour money into the bank accounts of anyone in this family.
I have a list of TLC programming executives along with direct contact information that I uploaded to google docs. I tried posting it here back in May but the link never showed or was blocked. Don’t know how else to get it to anyone. Willing to take ideas.
yea, “The Learning Channel” breeds stupidity if anything.
The list of advertisers who pulled their support for 19 Kids can be found here:
http://www.etonline.com/news/165327_19_kids_and_counting_every_sponsor_that_pulled_support_from_duggar_family/
I suppose you could contact them and ask that they do not support any future shows concerning the Duggar family.
“I never watch TLC but at this point I want to do more than that. If anyone has a current list of advertisers please share so we can boycott them” See, now *that* is doing good work, unilke these frauds.
Go away. Go to school. Get a damn job! And f*ck TLC for continuing to promote these horrible people!
It just kills TLC to lose this cash cow, they have been dying for a reason to bring them back on. Sadly, there are so many Duggar nuts that support this (see their FB page!).
If you look at comments on other pages though (the actual TLC Facebook page, and other Facebook pages talking about this), the VAST majority of people are saying WTF. I don’t think this is very smart of TLC, and it’s not going to work out for them. Most people are disgusted and totally over the Duggars.
y are you boycotting? TLC has already cancelled their show.
I can’t believe they are doing these specials, maybe the girls already had a contract before the Josh stuff came out.
I hate these people, all of them. Her smug face, Urgh.
Her cult prohibits women from working. Their place is in the home barefoot and pregnant yadda yadda yadda.
Dear Jessa, enroll in a community college, get some actual job skills, and get a real job instead of begging for handouts.
Dear IRS, please audit Jessa and her husband.
The IRS would do well to audit Jill and her husband’s “family ministry” too.
Sadly, gifts are tax free to the recipient so there won’t be anything to find here.
Isn’t her job, nay her reason for living, to have endless children?
“Dear IRS, please audit Jessa and her husband.” They’re too busy threatening to shakedown *innocent* people.
I thought all of the adults Duggar girls were trainings as mid-wives.
This whole family, their values, their approaches to life, their need for fame….all of it, will not age well. Not at all.
Grifters gonna grift.
Cannot BELIEVE they are back on TV. There will be lots of whitewashing over the facts.
Just disgusting. I feel bad for the girls because they never really had a chance, but they have become grifters too. They all make me ill.
Yeah, my first instinct was to feel bad for them because they have no education and no skills, but they have the opportunity to change that. Instead, they’re looking for a handout. Gross.
Life is long. The truth will out, at some point. Until then, she’ll stuff her face with Chick-Fil-A and stand in a kitchen with little kitchen towels with owls on them. Again, the Lord’s work. Like her 180-lb husband running over a defenseless cat.
That “touch down” shirt grosses me out.
It’s like… Touch Down! My sperm made it into the end zone!
And again, I maintain: Ben looks high as hell in every. Single. Photo. (My phone autocorrected “single” to “sinful” and I almost left it)
Seriously! I was thinking the same thing. Just gross
I’m pregnant and I have the same shirt. I wear it for football games. But glad to know the people on here think it’s gross. I’m kind of tired of the generalizations the commenters on here make. I’m glad to know that the shirt is so gross and awful to you two.
I’m honestly really sorry to have offended you. In the context of this family, the idea of impregnating a woman as a “touch down” was a little unpleasant for me to think about. I didn’t mean to insinuate that every person who ever wears that shirt is gross, and I apologize. I wasn’t trying to generalize. My comment was meant for the specific context of this whack job family, and meant to be taken in jest more than anything. I’m sincerely sorry that I insulted your shirt, and I’m sure you look really cute when you wear it for football games. Congratulations on your pregnancy. *hugs*
I think they meant it was gross because Jessa was wearing it, because of what it symbolizes when she wears it. She’s a young, uneducated woman who has been told her whole life that her only value is in getting married, having babies, and being subservient to her husband, no matter what. The shirt, on her, is just another reminder of that.
Poink explained it much more articulately than I could. Thank you, Poink. It’s the wearer of the shirt that makes me uncomfortable by wearing said shirt, because it’s another reminder that she’s been raised to believe that her uterus is her only value in life. I’m sure you look cute as heck when you wear it, Lex, and I truly mean that.
“I enjoy making generalizations about other people, but get pissed and pouty when people make them about anything involving me.” There, fixed it for you.
Bad GNAT! Back to the basement with you!
Are you gonna cry?
I’m laughing because it’s a teacher inset day today and the Sixlets have just had a sibling row leadnig to an almost-scuffle. I have berated them and done my usual sanction of making them look silly by enforcing a mandatory pinkie shake and a recitation of “Make friends, make friends, never never break friends. If you do, you’ll catch the flu. Atchoo!” This makes them forget their own row in favour of uniting against the mother who treats them like little kids.
GNAT? Pinkie shake?! I love you, I really do.
Sigh. Ok, pinkie shake. Just step off my Shambles. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.
It’s awful to more than two people.
*squee* Fanks GNAT.
It does have grody sexual connotations. So I guess, “me three.”
The shirt is in poor taste. If you are cool with reducing yourself to a symbolic sperm receptacle good for you, but getting offended by what people you don’t know on the internet say about a shirt you own that they would have no way of knowing you wear is just immature.
If you buy a tacky shirt, you should just own it, instead of whining. Nobody made you wear it. You might think it’s cute to be reminded of your dude’s sperm every time you look at your swollen abdomen, but other people are trying NOT to think about it, haha. I hope you grow up some before the kid pops out.
I think it’s a gross and trashy shirt too, regardless of who is wearing it (but I’ll give extra irony points for Jessa wearing it).
I think it’s silly when posters on a snark site get offended even though they are not the subject. Unless you’re Jessa Duggar it’s irrelevant what you wear. No one cares. If you’re going to be offended on a snark site you’re probably in the wrong place.
Don’t really care about the shirt but I suppose on someone less obnoxious it could be cute but on a grifter it’s tacky. But everything about JD is tacky.
It’s pretty obvious that she’s wearing it for the same reason – going to a game or watching one on TV. Her husband has a team shirt on. Of all things Duggar, this isn’t really something that bothers me…. It’s just a funny shirt. Sometimes we tend to overanalyze.
“…the people on here think it’s gross. I’m kind of tired of the generalizations the commenters on here make.”
“The people on here” is a gross generalization in itself.
I actually thought it was kinda cute. It’s cool, different tastes.
I was just coming on to say the same thing – what the hell is he on? She is still clear-eyed but he looks sketchy and stoned. They are revolting. Get a job and stop the baby machine until you can afford your spawn.
So stoned, in every photo I see of him. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not against people being stoned in an occasion-appropriate way. It would just be the hilarious icing on the irony cake to find out that one of these holier-than-thou dunderheads is a stoner. “Let he who is without sin get stoned first…” Or something like that 😉
“stop the baby machine until you can afford your spawn.”
It can’t be stopped though. It’s their god’s decision how many kids he gives them, remember. They have nothing to do with it. (until there’s a problem with getting pregnant, then it’s off to a fertility doc)
There is no way he is not baked.
holy carp, you guys are right, this guy is totally high.
I think ANY shirt with ANY writing on it is tacky for ANY grown woman to wear period. Be mad at me if you want.
…and if you really think about it, doesn’t it insinuate that someone “scored”? And of course, you’re free to put that out there if you like. Seen worse.
I see it the same way. I normally have a weird sense of humor but there’s no way I would wear that.
Oh no I have a shirt with writing on it. You must apologize to me now because I am offended. 😉
Word. And seeing Jessa in that shirt reminded me of how sheltered and immature she is.
Instead of gift cards someone needs to send them a baby onesie that says, “daddy’s little squirt.”
And some p0rnos.
And a Ashley Madison gift certificate.
Haha, @Nic919.
I’m not pregnant, and I have a shirt with writing on it that I wear sometimes when I’m cleaning house. Glad to know the people here think I’m tacky. I’m glad to know that my shirt with writing on it is tacky and awful to you!
So do I have to throw out my Super Mario Brothers shirt?
Better not come after my Mickey Mouse office wall clock…. 🙂
Ok Gabrielle, I have a shirt that has a whole SENTENCE on it, not just words. I am going to wear it with tacky pride. Mwa-ha-ha!! 😜😛😜
Ha ha every t-shirt I own has writing on it so I’m glad I’m not the only offensive one here lol 😜
Oh Shambles, you didn’t need to apologize. It’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it! And I think it’s tacky too.
I read yesterday that Jessa and Jill were getting their own series…who knows. WTF their brother diddled them but they’re good with it. Nah, these girls have been living the life on those TLC checks and have to miss the attention they got. Jessa was famous for her eye rolls whenever Jim Bob said something inappropriate. Now she’s probably begging him to get her and “her man” as she calls him….he’s like 20 or 21 years old back to the hay day. Money is money and even the fanatic Christian girls miss it I’m sure.
If she loves Walmart so much, I’m sure they’re hiring.
Love it
BOOM.
Ha!
And she might get employee discounts if she gets a job at one of her favorite stores!
I’m hoping she registers there. We can buy her a “Mommy’s Little MoneyMaker” baby tee.
“If she loves Walmart so much, I’m sure they’re hiring.” Well, maybe she hates JB’s music (and/or Celine Dion’s): “Fayetteville, Ark. — There is apparently only so much Celine Dion and Justin Bieber that a Wal-Mart employee can take […] The CD was a punch line multiple times in executives’ presentation to workers, including when a puppet character named Willie joked that being a Wal-Mart store worker was getting dangerous.” Or maybe it was the Ricky Martin/Reece Witherspoon double team that makes it impossible for her? Who can say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/06/03/why-wal-mart-is-ditching-its-celine-dion-soundtrack-and-getting-a-deejay/
Who could blame Her?
Perfect comment is perfect.
Miran you win.
Maybe it is how she photographs, but I always get a weird vibe from Jessa. The look in her eyes gives that ” about to snap and swear like a drunken sailor” look.
I agree. She also looks like the bottom half of her face is artificially inflated in some way. I know that’s a mean thing to say…I guess I’m being mean today.
She has a pretty face but a long face with a big jawline. Her face may be swollen from her pregnancy. Get used to it puffy face, cause there’s about two more decades of baby popping yet to come.
I agree- something about her eyes makes her look cold to me. I could be wrong, but it’s the vibe I get. Very pretty girl, but something’s off.
The girl has crazy eyes. I always get a creepy vibe from her, too. She looks like she’s on the edge.
She comes across as mean and cold hearted. Does the husband work? These two seem useless so it makes perfect sense for TLC to hire them.
I don’t see it. I think she’s gorgeous. Terrible personality but very good looking.
reminded me of John Olivers bit about Televangelists. they are actually begging for money to buy PRIVATE JETS !!! on the air.
And that one (Creflo Dollar) got it. Talking about how the “devil” was trying to keep him from doing the Lord’s work (about the backlash). No, bytch, that’s not the devil, that’s your greedy ass. Imagine all of “God’s work” that you could do by donating those 65 million dollars. You could probably feed a small African nation for a year.
His name is Creflo Dollar. I almost feel like the name is a clue…
Praise be to John Oliver.
Or a large European one!
“Praise Be!”
Sorry, I love John Oliver.
Just remember, seeds mean money. Not seeds 😉
She can’t a job, right? Isn’t that against their religion? I thought the women stayed home, barefoot and pregnant of course.
Well, the fact that she has no education, work experience or job skills would also limit her career opportunities too.
And, while it’s not legal for employers to discriminate against pregnant women, I suspect many still would and that it wouldn’t be all that practical for her to find a job so close to her due date.
I might actually have some sympathy for these young people if they struggled now, but showed signs of investing in their future. Jessa could look into community college classes – even one class at a time while her baby is small could get her started on the path to a certificate or an associate’s degree. Or she could look into getting licensed as a daycare provider, or perhaps look into cosmetology? She’s certainly used to large groups of little kids, and she seems to like and have a talent for hair and makeup styling.
As for Ben, he should probably look at both getting a job from someone who’s not his father-in-law and taking a class or two. I’m not thinking it would be easy, but I know other people who at 20 and 22 had a baby and not much in the way of qualifications. It’s not easy, but I’d respect them more if I thought they were trying to be independent.
Yet wasn’t her mother a real estate agent with her husband? Thought I read that both made big bucks in commercial RE. Because sometimes they are thrifty rich and other times, broke as a joke (allegedly).
Maybe so, but I doubt a commercial real estate business in rural NW Arkansas is lucrative enough for 19 kids, some kids’ spouses, and grandkids too. And now, after Josh’s scandals and his parents’ coverups, I suspect there are people who are no longer willing to be associated with the Duggars in ANY way but especially in any kind of business deal.
Go get a job and close those legs, hun.
Don’t breed it if you can’t feed it!
Wives aren’t supposed to work, just breed, increasing God’s army. Ben is 20 years old with his first child on the way and many more to come. While, they may have money now to live comfortably or at least have it doled out to them by Jim Bob, it won’t last long and are screwed without ongoing reality show money and side projects that come from the their exposure on TV.
I think the house they are living in is owned by daddy and Jill got the better house, owned by grandma I think, or something like that. I’m sure even the book by the girls was shared with daddy and mommy as far as proceeds or he controls it all under some corporation. I don’t trust that Jim Bob would let his girls get that independent from he and Michelle financially. All those years working on the show and I think their father controls most of everything.
It is disgusting telling fans where to send money to them. These people have no shame.
http://www.eonline.com/news/626355/jessa-duggar-swears-she-s-not-jealous-of-jill-duggar-s-house-while-moving-in-with-husband-ben-seewald
I have little doubt that you are right. Jim Bob runs the show here, I don’t think anyone sees a penny from the show or any other side projects that hasn’t passed through Jim Bob’s hands. There is no such thing as “independence” in this cult. It’s one thing to be supported by your family, but their situation runs far, far beyond that. Jim Bob controls all, and now that the money stream is drying up everyone’s gotta hustle.
This family is worst than the Kardashians. At least the Klan don’t try to hide their thirst for fame and money. What God will think of these Duggars?
I disagree. Both families are greedy and selfish and scammers. They just go about it differently. They are the same people when it all comes down to it.
That’s a bridge too far, Dawn. We know you hate the K Klan but get a grip. At the very least, they’re not hateful bigots who try to limit other people’s rights.
I tend to agree with you. I don’t think Rob molested his sisters. On the other hand, I can’t imagine my sisters carving themselves up or my dad becoming a woman. In my opinion both these families are so over the top crazy, but are somehow unaware that they are so bizarre. That’s how they got and stay on the media radar.
Anyone that young and healthy can get a bloody job! In fact they are each young and healthy enough to get two jobs. If she can’t work because the men in her life believe her uterus is a handicap, then she can sit home and clip coupons. There! problem solved! You’re welcome.
And a penny saved is worth more than a penny earned, how much depending on your tax bracket…. Clip those coupons!
“Chica really does not want to get a real job.”
Surely in that environment, she wouldn’t have to or be expected to? I thought women weren’t encouraged to work but were ‘allowed’ to (or it was preferred) for them to be stay at home mothers and concentrate on home and the family?
I highly doubt any of her immediate family or friends are expecting a pregnant 22 year old Jessa to work. Not until a long time after the baby is born, if at all.
You are right, their cult greatly shames women for working. They are supposed to be barefoot, pregnant and with no financial means. Too busy and tired to think for themselves.
Years ago I saw a story on Australian 60 Minutes. I’m sure it was about the Duggars. The story was about the huge, fundamental religious family – how they all lived in this massive house with lots of timber features, how the kids were home-schooled, who did the work inside and outside the house etc. I can still see Jim Bob’s face, and a lot of kids hanging about. In the programme, they made mention of his job in real estate, and how much money and real estate investmens he’d made from that job. Are these the same people? If so, what happened to all the investments? He’s a mental control freak, so I reckon whatever money there is, he’s keeping a tight grip on it. There’s no way he’s going to share it out in any fair way. Firstly, it’s his power stick to wave around everyone’s head, and secondly, he’s a greedy prick. I don’t think he’d let his kids and grandkids starve. But he’d provide basic food and nothing more. They make me ill, too.
Thank you for posting this, because I suspect it’s the same family.
I am no expert on this family’s history, but I recall reading that he and his wife had real estate licenses and supposedly made quite a bit. Plus they appear to be frugal in certain ways while they grift for extras, like trips.
Where is that money? If it is tied up in commercial investments, then sell!
Thanks, Christin. As I said, his face keeps popping into my head, but I cannot recall his wife’s from the programme. It was some time ago, so I’m pretty sure there weren’t 19 kids then. That’s how I took it: that they’d made a ship load of money from real estate sales and investments – due to their “expertise” in that profession – which is what allowed them to have and raise so many children and run such a large household. Now I’m certain it was them, because something keeps coming back to me about how all their kids’ banes start with J. I thought them odd then, and think they’re vile now.
I have a friend who claims to have watched every episode of the show (which amazes me, because she doesn’t seem the type who would be interested). She said that they (the parents) claimed to have various rental (investment) properties. And the “J” names is spot on. It has to be the same family.
Dear TLC, no one cares to see anymore about these people unless they denounce their crazy beliefs.
I’d watch a show about any one of those kids breaking free. And buy from every single advertiser!
I would love a show that helped people escape the cult and adjust to a normal secular life that doesn’t keep women as second class citizens.
Ugh i never watched these grifters on TLC but i’ve heard enough about them….i just don’t get the fascination of a family that only value women for the children they can bear. That basically sell their daughters to sperm donors without letting them date like normal people. Its so 1400’s where women are mere chattel and people eat it up and watch it???????? Disgusting
What irks me is the people sending the money probably have less money than the Seewalds do. Gross.
I am bothered by that as well. Most people cannot have a baby shower (so to speak) inviting tens of thousands. And that is what they are doing.
Grifters…get a job. The Dunggars are the worst reality family ever. At least the Kuntrashians are honest about being money grubbing attention whores.
No they’re not according to th K family they are hard working people when never call the paparazzi and are natural.
The Duggers and the Kardashians are two sides of the same coin.
Hardly. The Kardashians – for all their flaws and sins – don’t try to force their fanatical religious beliefs on anyone and don’t beg their fans for donations or gifts. Sure, they’ll sell you any number of products and will endorse the hell out of companies that pay them, but Lucifer’s Homegirl and her spawn don’t even try to claim they are a charity, much less a religious one.
But like the diggers they use the church to pay less taxes or none at all and also profit off of other people pain and suffering.
@Bearcat The Kardashians do have their own church. However I don’t think they’re hustling their religion like the Duggars.
Can people PLEASE stop saying this??? The Kardashians are not bigots; the Duggars are. Just stop. Yes they have their own “church” that they filter money through but they don’t advance extremist agendas on the public or try to limit other people’s rights.
The Duggars give me indigestion. Go away!!!
Honestly…I’m sure we would all cry if we knew how much money these disgusting parasites have made over the years.
To resort to panhandling your “fans” is just the epitome of gross.
Did I miss the Very Special Dugger episode where Dina Lohan adopted these tricks??? Cause they would be making Dina really proud right about now…
With folks like this it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend. We hear stories of real millionaires with actual jobs going broke all the time, why would we be surprised that this prop-up shop of a family would be broke.
They spend beyond their means and more than half of the family isn’t working, add to it the girls probably getting a little loose with their money and thinking the gravy train would roll forever and I could totally see them broke in the near future if not now.
Odds are the only one coming out of this serviceable is Jim Bob, I’m sure he’s got the purse strings drawn up tight and plans to cover his own nut for years, kids or no kids.
This.
With her its both – girl is super super thirsty for fame and fortune, she could be the evangelical christian Kim K. They have gotten used to a certain lifestyle and me thinks Daddy is tightening the purse strings and with him being the only breadwinner (from Daddy’s pocket) . And yes to DimBulb getting a cut of anything they do – he’s a major control freak.
Krispy Kreme had talk like a pirate day promotion….. where if you talk like a pirate you get 1 free doughnut, and if you also dress up as one you get a free dozen. Well, apparently 16 Duggars dressed up as pirates and walked away with 16 DOZEN free doughnuts. Un-real these grifters..
What…they need money? Too bad. Maybe if you could think for yourself and not live the life your parents are, maybe you would be educated enough to get a job and earn it. I feel zero sympathy for these two.
She’s definitely making money from endorsements. I was putting returns away at work the other night and surprise! Jessa Duggar’s face is front and center on a baby gate box.
Really!?
She hasn’t even given birth yet!
Do you happen to recall what brand ?
Screw TLC!
If any of the minor duggar children are on the show they have to get paid. That means jimbob gets money!!!
ETA- I meant to post this as a separate comment. Not in reply to yours. Sorry 🙂
It was garden/iron fence style though I do not recall the brand, but it was on clearance XD
Jessa will start her show “1 kid and counting” and all will go into a deja vu.
Right, and they’ll have fifty kids. And all those kids will have fifty kids.
@ Crocuta
hahaHA!
Papa Duggar’s money train is drying up and he is cutting the apron strings, telling his tribe to start fending for themselves.
I think it’s disgusting to beg for cash and gifts. But I’m wondering if a lot of the Duggars’ money goes to tithing at their church. I know some churches I attended in the past were pretty blatant in their demands for money/tithes, in one case the pastor actually based his whole sermon on tithing and how the whole congregation should always give at least one tenth of their entire earnings, possibly more, depending on their circumstances, to the church or basically they were bad Christians. They actually would not let you be a “card carrying member of the congregation” (they actually call it that!) unless you’re tithing. (I assume they have some kind of contract or something and you have to give your credit card or whatever to them, then they “introduce you to the church family.” I’m not sure, because needless to say, I am not a member there.) The Duggar family fronts as being so Godly, so I wonder how much of their money (which is substantial!) they give to the church.
The hypocrisy in the name of religion is unbelievable.
Jimbob runs and owns their “church”!
Ah, everything makes much more sense now!
Their house is their church! That’s how buck toothed beaver got to avoid paying taxes to Uncle Sam! The til is the beaver’s bank account.
Churches don’t have to pay taxes?
Chloe you didn’t know!!!!! Churches are tax exempt and they are allowed to keep their books private. So a church could spend 100% of it’s money on mink coats if they wanted and they legally don’t have to tell anyone and don’t pay anything in tax.
My mom used to work for the general conference that managed a region of churches and her employer automatically deducted 10% tithe from every paycheck, effectively forcing the employees to pay tithe twice because they still had to pay again at church because of their “status as conference members”. This only became the rule over the last few years and she got fed up with it and quit.
Say what?
It’s been a really, really tough week for me. Oh, if anyone who keeps hounding me on where to send cash, gift cards, lotto tickets or Jason Mamoa needs my address, just let me know!
…. If someone sends you Jason Mamoa pay it forward when you’re done would you?
She has the most annoying pretty face.
lol, she does.
I hope the IRS is paying attention and these two losers are audited. Sorry but you’re not a non-profit or a religion. Buck tooth Daddy can get away with that because he got the IRS to agree that his house is his church (so not on board with that) but what can they declare.
I hope those very special shows tank.
“the older kids still make some money”
yeah, Jill and Jessa. The rest of the kids-including Jana and Jinger get SQUAT.
Just disappear from our lives already you wasteful excuse of human beings
Jessa, wipe that sanctimonious smirk off your face and please, just go away! Go have your baby, live your life, and disappear.
Between this family and the Kardashians, we can finally see the how reality television is horrible. It elevates people (with no talent whatsoever) to celebrity status, gives them instant fame and it is beyond disgusting to me. Furthermore, when you start to peel away the layers and see child molestation, pornography addiction, infidelity, sex tapes, 25 year old rappers dating a 16 yr old…and on and on, when do we say enough is ENOUGH???!!!!! Why oh why do people care about these families?, and so many other train wrecks on television?? I will never understand it. That is not my idea of entertainment, but I guess I am very much in the minority.
They are Trashassian level grifters. Ugh. Go away.
Saigelmason, how does one let go of that perfection..sigh! But it would be utterly selfish of me to think I could get and hold on to the island God himself. Ok, will share but you must send back to me 🙂 Hello! In honor of some awesome posting vixens let me go all cray cray. Love or hate religion or Catholicism how about this Pope!!???? About time a true spiritual leader calls out all this insane materialism which the Duggars seem to worship despite their claims of the opposite!
My family recently sold a property we inherited and my parents gave the money to me and my siblings – four ways… yeah it didn’t come out to a lot per person in the end.
… but it could have been 19 ways, so I guess I should count my blessings.
Crime reporter chiming in very late:
Gift certificates and cash are super ways to avoid paying taxes on donations when you’re not actually a charity. If she’s a reality show personality and people send her money because of that, the tax man is going to be interested in that; it’s not like a personal gift. And gift certificates and cash are hard to trace. It’s hard to connect the spender with the donor with the source of the money and why it got where it went.
Only CA and in a more limited law NY have laws forcing parents to put most of a child movie or tv actor money in a trust. Kate+8 in PA or AR don’t have such laws. My point is Jimboob is letting both couples live rent free in his homes, doesn’t the Bible they live by promote hard work and being self sufficient? Begging isn’t a job. Turns out the Diggers raised greedy, lazy perverts who are allergic to working. Tlc better cut their losses.