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Don't lashlight me!

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Stephanie McNeal
Feb 02, 2023
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Hi everyone,

Happy to be back to newsletter-ing after my family got COVID last week, it’s really as bad as they say! Thanks for all the well wishes.

This week I wrote…

Free Jinger!

Last month, I got to chat with Jinger Duggar about the internet campaign to “free her” from her family, her "Truman Show" like childhood, and disavowing her childhood beliefs in her new book. It was a really interesting conversation.

From my piece:

“Around 2005, a group of TV obsessives on the internet started a forum to discuss a TLC documentary special called 14 Children and Pregnant Again and the family it featured, the Duggars…The forum’s founders named their site Free Jinger after the couple’s sixth oldest child. They felt that the then-10-year-old Jinger Duggar’s frequent eye rolls and declared love of big cities made her the most likely of the Duggar children to ‘break out’ from her strict upbringing.

Nearly 20 years later, Jinger, now Jinger Vuolo, has proven them right: In her new book Becoming Free Indee…

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