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Josh and Anna Duggar celebrated their ninth anniversary on Tuesday, but fans of Counting On, the show that focuses on the Duggar family obliquely and on Josh’s sisters, Jill and Jessa and their families specifically, weren’t exactly parading out the well-wishes.
For reasons that are readily obvious to anyone who has read anything about the Duggars over the past few years, Josh, the oldest of the first generation of Duggar kids, has been something of a pariah in the family. As The Hollywood Gossip writer Tyler Johnson notes, ever since his molestation scandal, the rest of the Duggar family, and family patriarch Jim Bob Duggar, have been trying – and failing – to manage Josh’s and the family’s image. Those efforts have ranged from, as Johnson puts it, trying to sweep his shenanigans under the rung, to only presenting Josh in a positive light on the family’s social media presence.