Welcome to Plathville’s Olivia Plath Says Watching New Duggar Family Docuseries Is ‘Triggering’: ‘That Was My Life’

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Too close to home? Olivia Plath opened up about how it felt to watch the new docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.The 25-year-old Welcome to Plathville star took to her Instagram Story to discuss the Prime Video episodes. “That was my life up until a few years ago,” she said on Saturday, June 3. “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.”Olivia claimed that she received an “overwhelming response from people saying, ‘Please, let’s talk about this,'” after the four-part series was released on Friday, June 2. “I will say, the realm in which my public life exists, there’s a lot of things I can’t say,” she added. “There’s a lot of things I want to say about religion, about my past, about the world that I went right back into. … I’m jumping on to say my experience, to be honest, was decently negative.”The TLC star confessed that she’s “not really religious anymore” after being raised in a strict conservative household. “There’s a lot of things that I laugh about now, because what else are you supposed to do?” she noted.Welcome to Plathville premiered in 2019, focusing on Barry and Kim Plath and their nine children: Ethan, Hosanna, Micah, Moriah, Lydia, Isaac, Amber, Cassia and Mercy.

The big brood resides on a farm in rural Georgia and follow a Christian fundamentalist lifestyle.Tensions arose between Ethan, 25, and his parents after he exchanged vows with Olivia in 2018. “When we were dating, I knew that I was being controlled in what we were allowed to do, what we’re allowed to say,” Olivia exclusively told Us Weekly in August 2021, adding that she noticed “a