'19 Kids and Counting' star Amy Duggar King reveals husband's 'life-threatening' health issues

Amy Duggar King is giving fans a family health update about husband Dillon King.

The "Counting On" star and "19 Kids and Counting" alum revealed in a birthday post Thursday that her husband of years was dealing with "life-threatening" health issues.

"Happy Birthday to my favorite person on the planet! Y’all I adore this man! Dax has the best dad on the planet and he’s so loved by so many family and friends!" Duggar King wrote alongside a picture of her husband in a hospital bed, adding that "normally we’d be celebrating in a huge way but currently we are facing some possible life threatening medical concerns."

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She continued: "Today I’d like to ask for some prayers on his behalf. I know God has him, but we welcome the prayers!! I can’t think of a better gift for him!" Her cousins Jinger Duggar Vuolo and Jill Dillard both wrote well wishes in the comments section.

"Dillon we can get through anything together," Duggar King concluded the note.

In 2019, the former "19 Kids" star and her husband welcomed their first and only child – a son, Daxton "Dax" Ryan King. At the time, the couple confirmed the news to People magazine and shared a photo to Instagram.

"He's absolute perfection!!!" the new mom wrote alongside a photo of the new family of three in a hospital room with a blanket over them reading "God gave us you."

Duggar King rose to fame as the outspoken cousin of the Duggar family, TV's unconventional stars from the controversial show "19 Kids and Counting" featuring Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar's crew of children in rural Arkansas. All of the couple's 19 children had "J" names.

The series was canceled in 2015 following revelations that their eldest son Josh Duggar had molested four of his sisters and a babysitter when he was a young teen. At that time, he admitted to a porn addiction and cheating on his wife and apologized.

TLC spun off another series "Counting On," featuring storylines from Josh Duggar's sisters and their young families, but that show was also canceled in June 2021 following his arrest for downloading and possession of child pornography.

Duggar King has remained a fan favorite among "Counting On" fans after publicly slamming her cousin on multiple occasions, including a May 2022 Instagram post calling for Josh Duggar's wife Anna Duggar to divorce him a week before he was sentenced to 12 and 1/2 years in prison.

"I have not spoken to him, and I will not. I will not," Duggar King told People in 2024. "When you just cross those evil lines like that, there is no coming back. I just think there's no coming back."

Contributing: Amy Haneline

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