Amy Duggar Says Cousin Jana Duggar Is Under Jim Bob and Michelle’s ‘Control,’ Has No Contact With Her

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Amy Duggar hasn’t been afraid to share her thoughts about aunt Michelle and uncle Jim Bob Duggar — and now she’s opening up about her relationship with cousin Jana Duggar.“I truly hope to the good Lord above that she is happy and thriving and working through whatever she’s experienced, but I have no contact with her,” Amy, 36, revealed in a Vanity Fair interview published on Wednesday, June 28, noting that Jana, 33, still lives on her parents’ property in Arkansas.“Anyone that lives at home with anyone in the IBLP, you’re under their control, so I don’t know if she’s necessarily allowed to [contact me],” Amy added, referring to the Institute in Basic Life Principles, the fundamentalist Christian movement to which Jim Bob, 57, and Michelle, 56, subscribe.Jana is the eldest daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle, who rose to fame on the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting.

The family’s spinoff show, Counting On, was canceled after the couple’s eldest son, Josh, was arrested on child pornography charges in early 2021.

Josh, 35, was found guilty on two counts of receiving and possessing child pornography in December of that year and later sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.Amy and some of her relatives have since denounced their upbringing, most recently in Prime Video’s Shiny Happy People.

Jana did not participate, but Amy and cousin Jill Duggar spoke out against IBLP in the docuseries, while Jinger Duggar opened up about her experience in the January memoir Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith From Fear.“[My upbringing] was built on fear, manipulation, control and superstition, so all those things combined in how hard it is for kids to leave or adults to leave — anyone, really,” Jinger, 29, exclusively told