Duggar docuseries was ‘triggering’ for ‘Welcome to Plathville’ star Olivia Plath
foxnews.com"Welcome to Plathville" star Olivia Plath felt an unfortunate relatability with the new four-part docuseries "Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets." "That was my life up until a few years ago," Plath revealed in an Instagram story post on Saturday. "A little triggering to watch, but also there is solidarity in having other people speak up and say, ‘Yep, you're not crazy, happened to me too.
I know about this.’ That is healing in a way." "Shiny Happy People" explores the Duggar family's rise to fame and fall from grace after allegations emerged in 2015 that the oldest Duggar son, Josh, had molested five young girls when he was 12.
Josh later admitted to molesting four of his younger sisters and a babysitter. The show, which premiered on Amazon Prime June 1, also covers their involvement in the controversial Institute in Basic Life Principles organization, a fundamentalist Christian group.
Similar to the Duggars, Plath appeared on a TLC reality series titled "Welcome to Plathville." The show premiered in 2019 and followed Christian fundamentalists Barry and Kim Plath and their nine children, as they lived their lives in rural Georgia with limited technology.The family’s eldest son, Ethan, married Olivia before the series began.
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