When 19 Kids and Counting aired on TLC, cousin Amy Duggar was portrayed as the wild, rebellious black sheep of the family. The 19 Duggar siblings' fundamentalist Christian upbringing included homeschooling and strict rules about modesty, gender roles, technology, and more. Unlike her sheltered cousins, Amy wore pants, attended school, and enjoyed popular music, TV shows, and movies.
Fast-forward to today and the tables have turned. Michelle and Jim Bob's eldest son, Josh, is serving more than 12 years in federal prison after his child pornography conviction in December 2021 (among other Duggar scandals). Meanwhile, Amy is happily married to Dylan King, and they have a 4-year-old son named Daxton.
Recently, Amy's Instagram followers noticed that she subtly shaded her aunt and uncle. Let's take a closer look.
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Amy Duggar recently posted about her son, Daxton, working as a model.
In May, Amy took to Instagram to share a photo of Daxton posing next to a saucer swing for sale at a Sam's Club store. The packaging featured Dax next to a little girl.
"We play a game going up and down the aisles when we know he’s going to be somewhere in Sam’s for a national campaign called 'let’s find Dax!' ," Amy wrote. "It’s always such a fun outing!"
Fans noticed that she subtly shaded her aunt and uncle, Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar.
In the comments, an Instagram user noticed Amy's dig at her aunt and uncle.
"Love the subtle shade that you're actually going to give him the money he rightfully deserves!! ," the wrote.
To that, Amy replied, "ABSOLUTELY!! He has his own bank account and that’s his $ he worked for!! Not ours!! I know what it’s like to be taken advantage of when it comes to compensation. I’ll never let that happen to our son!"
Another Instagram user commented, "@amyrachelleking your a awesome mom keep up the good work."
Amy's cousin, Jill Duggar, also posted about her kids finding Dax's photos in a store.
On June 1, Jill took to her Instagram Stories to share an image of her family spotting Dax's modeling photo in the wild. "The boys were excited to find their cousin @daxrking on the @samsclub swing advertisement," Jill wrote. In the photo, her husband, Derick Dillard, and two of their sons, Israel and Samuel, stopped to take in the packaging.
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Jim Bob and Michelle reportedly did not pay their kids to appear on the TLC shows.
As Jill detailed in her memoir Counting the Cost, she and her siblings were not paid for their time on 19 Kids and Counting or Counting On. Their parents received paychecks from the network but reportedly did not cut the Duggar siblings a percentage even as they reached adulthood and continued filming.
“I never received any payout — no check, no cash, no nothing. For seven and a half years of my adult life, I was never paid,” Jill said on the Prime Video docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.
Ultimately, Jim Bob and Michelle offered to give their kids lump sums of $80,000 for their contributions, but Jill and Derick refused. They ended up paying Jill $175,000, although Jim Bob reportedly made an estimated $8 million from the shows.
Amy has spoken out against her aunt and uncle many times in the past.
This isn't the first time Amy has publicly criticized her aunt and uncle. In August 2022, she spoke out against Michelle and Jim Bob's silence about Josh's scandals.
"How can so many stay silent!?! It blows my mind at the people who are turning their blind eye at what has happened!!" she wrote. "HELLO THIS IS A BIG DEAL. We Have to be loud, we have to make a commotion, we have to talk about the hard things and the sad realizations."
Amy added, "We have to get mad about this. This isnt just a sad one time occurrence. This is someone who preyed on the vu[l]nerable and who is sick in the head!!! I have so many dang questions!? Don’t you!?"
