Thought I Had To Wear Dresses to ‘Please God’: Jinger Duggar Vuolo Opens Up About Her Fearful Childhood
Reality star Jinger Duggar Vuolo is opening up about her childhood. In an exclusive interview with People , she said that fear was a “huge part” of her childhood. “I thought I had to wear only skirts and dresses to…
Reality star Jinger Duggar Vuolo is opening up about her childhood.
In an exclusive interview with People, she said that fear was a “huge part” of her childhood.
“I thought I had to wear only skirts and dresses to please God. Music with drums, places I went or the wrong friendships could all bring harm,” she added.
Her parents, Michelle Duggar and Jim Bob Duggar, raised her and her 18 siblings to openly follow the teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, which was an organization founded by Bill Gothard in 1961.
In 2014, Gothard resigned from the IBLP board of directors after he was accused of molesting and sexually harassing women in the organization, according to NBC News.
“My actions of holding of hands, hugs, and touching of feet or hair with young ladies crossed the boundaries of discretion and were wrong,” he said in a statement.
Vuolo said Gothard’s teachings were based on “fear and superstition.”
“ teachings in a nutshell are based on fear and superstition and leave you in a place where you feel like, ‘I don’t know what God expects of me,’ the 29-year-old said. “The fear kept me crippled with anxiety. I was terrified of the outside world.”