Amy King is a cousin in the Duggar family. Her mother Deanna Jordan is the sister of famous patriarch Jim Bob Duggar and the two would appear on 19 Kids and Counting during its original TLC run. But Deanna is a divorcée and Amy has been known for more normalized behaviors like wearing pants, even during the original run of the series. Now she’s speaking out and calling her role in the show “a distraction.”
In a longer interview where Amy also touched on her cousin Josh’s molestation report and current prison sentence, she admitted her time on TLC was uncomfortable. She told Vanity Fair she was “was a fish out of water all the time” during the tenure of that series (she later appeared on Counting On too, though in a lesser capacity). Looking back on her time as a reality TV star, she said she now believes she was used by the series to cover some of the more cringe-worthy things going on with the Duggars.
