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Is Amy Duggar King shading her famous relatives? A recent tweet from the Duggar family cousin sure sounds like it could be a not-so-subtle swipe at Jinger Duggar from Counting On. 

In the social media message Amy, 33, criticized people whose online presence seems too carefully curated. She wrote that people are interested in following “real people.” The tweet comes as Jinger is getting heat for her recently transformed Instagram presence, which some people think looks a little too staged. 

Amy Duggar criticizes people who pretend their lives are perfect

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Amy, who is the daughter of Jim Bob Duggar’s sister Deanna, has sometimes had a strained relationship with her controversial extended family. In the past, she’s said she’s not allowed to spend one-on-one time with her younger cousins and has reportedly been blocked from speaking about the Counting On stars. But that hasn’t prevented her from sharing vague messages that are widely interpreted to be about the Duggars. 

“People want to follow real people!!” Amy declared in the June 24 tweet. “Not stock photos where you act like your life is perfect! No — we want to see the mess, the hard moments too. People need to stop trying so hard…”

Is Amy slamming Jinger Duggar? 

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Word of encouragement.? “​It is a good and necessary thing to set aside time for God in each day. The busier the day, the more indispensable is this quiet period for prayer, Bible reading, and silent listening. It often happens, however, that I find my mind so full of earthly matters that it seems I have gotten up early in vain and have wasted three-fourths of the time so dearly bought (I do love my sleep!). But I have come to believe that the act of will required to arrange time for God may be an offering to Him. As such He accepts it, and what would otherwise be “loss” to me I count as “gain” for Christ. Let us not be “weary in well-doing,” or discouraged in the pursuit of holiness. Let us, like Moses, go to the Rock of Horeb–and God says to us what He said to him, “You will find me waiting for you there” (Ex 17:6 NEB).” – Elizabeth Elliot

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Amy didn’t call out anyone by name in her tweet. But it comes just as her younger cousin Jinger is making over her social media presence in a big way. 

In recent weeks, the 26-year-old’s Instagram has been taken over by photos that critics say look a little too try-hard. They feel that Jinger’s latest photos are inauthentic and don’t represent her real life. 

“I miss feeling like I was following a person not a stock photo stock caption festival,” one person wrote on a recent post. “Weird and forced” was how another person described the vibe of her and her husband Jeremy Vuolo’s social media. Some of the negative comments on that June 25 post also appear to have been deleted. 

Jinger and Jeremy recently launched a podcast 

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Jinger’s social media makeover comes as she and Jeremy are making some big changes. Not only is the couple expecting their second child, but in early June, they announced they were starting a podcast called The Hope We Hold. The shift in their Instagram content toward more professional-looking, staged photos roughly coincides with the start of that new project. 

Those who don’t like Jinger and Jeremy’s new social media look think it’s odd that couple appears to have a pro photographer documenting their lives, especially during a global pandemic when people are being encouraged to social distance.  

“They are curating everything and they kind of seem like marketing robots now,” one person commented on a June 24 Instagram post from Jeremy.

“I miss the candid stuff they used to post,” wrote another. It seems that cousin Amy would agree. 

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