Jinger Duggar Vuolo is singing the praises of her “brave” sister Jill Duggar Dillard!
In a YouTube video uploaded to her channel on Wednesday, Jinger, 29, admitted she still hadn’t gotten around to reading Jill’s explosive debut memoir, Cost calculation, which provides a detailed commentary on her upbringing within her controversial church and family. Ali Jinger – who also wrote a book about her experiences earlier this year titled To become free indeed — he expressed his excitement that he will soon be able to read it.
“I haven’t actually read Jill’s book yet, but I can’t wait to do that,” Jinger said as she recapped her time in New York filming her appearance on Tamron Hall. “I could talk [on the show] about how I love and support my sister and I’m so glad she found her voice and is now sharing her story.”
Later in the video, Jinger is shown picking up a copy of Jill’s memoir at a local bookstore. She then noted that this was “the first time” she was “reading some small sections here in New York.”
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Jill’s memoir debuted earlier this month. Ahead of the book’s release, she told PEOPLE that she “didn’t want to write this story” but felt “called to do it.”
“I love my parents. I love my siblings. I struggle with the weight of it. But I feel called to do this,” she explained. “I feel passionate about empowering other people to find their voice, and if they do that through my story, great. I want them to feel like they’re not alone.”
“I know there will be naysayers, but I feel called to do it,” she continued. “We really wanted to tell our story for my siblings, because some of them will be facing similar challenges, if they haven’t already, that I’ve faced.”
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Jill Duggar Dillard is pictured holding the manuscript of her debut memoir, ‘Counting the Cost.’
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The memoir came out a few months after Jill, 32, joined her husband Derick Dillard, cousin Amy (Duggar) King and her husband Dillon King, and Jim Bob Duggar’s father’s sister Deanna Jordan in speaking out against her family and controversial religion, the Basic Life Institute principles (IBLP), on Prime Video Great Happy People: Secrets of the Duggar Family documentary films. Although Jinger chose not to appear in the four-part series, she previously told PEOPLE that she had “heard something” about it from Jill and was “excited to hear what she had to say.”
“They actually approached me and asked me to be a part of the documentaries, but I thought from my perspective I really wanted to make sure that I could share my story in my own words and in my own time,” Jinger said in June. “So, that’s why I wrote it To become free indeed, was to share more of his IBLP learning journey. I wanted to be able to share it in a way that was, like, honoring to God and hopefully sharing my story in a balanced way.”
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