Duggar Family Secrets Are Exposed in New Docuseries Featuring Jill and Amy: Everything to Know About ‘Shiny Happy People’

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Digging deep. A new docuseries is setting out to expose the dark secrets of the Duggar family and their ultra-conservative religious beliefs.Fans got their first look at Prime Video’s Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets in an explosive trailer released on Thursday, May 18. “World domination was the goal,” a man says at the beginning of the clip as several talking heads discuss the impact of controversial minister Bill Gothard and his Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP).Photos of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — as well as their 19 children — flash on the screen. “There’s a story that’s going to be told,” Jill Duggar says. “And I would rather be the one telling it.”The former TLC personality is shown clutching husband Derick Dillard‘s hand as a producer off camera thanks her for taking part in the project.

A press release describes the doc as “the first time” the Arkansas native “will go on record with her own story,” along with “family and close family friends who witnessed what went on behind the scenes firsthand.”Jill and her siblings rose to prominence after 19 Kids and Counting premiered on TLC in 2008.

The reality series followed the daily lives of the Duggars, who homeschooled their big brood and embraced strict religious values.In 2015, the network pulled the show from the air amid reports that the couple’s eldest son, Josh Duggar, molested several girls when he was 14 and 15 years old.

It was later revealed that Jill and her sister Jessa Duggar were among the victims.Following the highly publicized scandal, the family returned to reality TV with the spinoff Counting On.