Amy Duggar King is starting a new chapter.
Seventeen years after she made her debut alongside her cousins on 19 Kids and Counting , the 39-year-old is sharing her story with the Oct. 14 release of her memoir Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Truth .
If you’re wondering how Amy fits into the sprawling Duggar family , her mom Deanna Duggar is Jim Bob Duggar 's sister—making Amy the niece of Jim Bob and his wife Michelle Duggar . And while Amy is an only child, she has a lot of cousins in Jim Bob and Michelle’s 10 sons and nine daughters.
"I was very, very close with them and it almost felt like I was an extra sister in a way," Amy said of her childhood on the Oct. 1 episode of The Viall Files . "But I spent a lot of my