Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard.
Courtesy of Jill Duggar/InstagramA romantic date! Jill Dugar and her husband, Derick Dillardenjoyed some well-deserved quiet time together on Friday, June 9.
“👩❤️💋👨So grateful to have had the best spa and sushi date with my favorite person @derickdillard… + our little attendant. 😉,” THE counting on alum, 32, wrote via Instagram, referring to the couple’s 11-month-old son, Freddie. “Thank you for making this possible ❤️ @jingervuolo @jeremy_vuolo @jerjdeg @samanthadegro0t 💞.”
In the social media upload, the married couple – who wed in 2014 and also share sons Israel, 8, and Samuel, 5 – took selfies of their intimate sushi dinner before getting pedicures together.
The couple’s Friday outing comes hours after revealing that their upcoming memoir, Count the costwould be released sooner than originally planned.
Derick Dillard and Jill Duggar.
Courtesy of Jill Duggar/Instagram“Thanks to the overwhelming support and interest of all of you in our story, we were able to pull some strings and now the book is coming out four months earlier than originally planned,” they wrote in a Friday post on their blog. Dillard family. “The NEW Counting the Cost release date is September 12, 2023!”
Duggar – who is one of Jim Bob And Michelle Dugar‘s 19 children – announced at the end of last month that she was sharing her story in her first memoir. The book will be co-written by Dillard, 34, and Craig Borlase.
According to a post on Jill’s Instagram at the time, Count the cost chronicles the couple’s “painful journey” as part of the Duggar family, filming a reality TV show.
She continued at the time, “As the photo on the cover shows, the book is meant to reflect a story that has been difficult, but hopeful. The challenges we’ve faced, including disrespect for boundaries, greed, manipulation, and betrayal, aren’t much different than those many in our audience have faced. However, more than 15 years of reality TV, underpinned by secrecy and lies, is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the fire of our struggle.
Jill became famous thanks to her family 19 children and counting reality series in 2008, where TLC followed the daily life of the large family as they were raised to follow strict fundamentalist beliefs. Jill has since opened up about growing up on TV in Prime Video’s Bright happy people docuseries, alongside his cousin Amy Duggar King. The four-part series – which Jim Bob, 57, and Michelle, 56, have publicly condemned – also delved into the fall of the large brood in the middle of Jill’s older brother Josh Dugarallegations of pedophilia and conviction for child pornography.
19 children and counting was canceled by TLC in 2015 after Josh, 35, was accused of inappropriately touching several teenage girls, including a few of his sisters. Jill and brother Jessa Duggartwo of Josh’s victims, later led the family counting on spin off. The midwife and Dillard eventually left the show in 2017, claiming in Bright happy people that they were never paid for their on-camera appearances.