Jill Duggar confirms family is safe after tornado

Jill Duggar And Derick Dillard have confirmed that their immediate family was not affected by a tornado that tore through multiple states.

Duggar, 32, and Dillard, 35, shared the good news via a joint statement on Sunday, May 26, but added that some members of their extended family were affected.

“Like most people in our area of ​​NW Arkansas/NE Oklahoma, we were awake most of the night as tornadoes ripped through our area,” the spokesperson said. Count on alum and her husband wrote on a Instagram story. “Luckily we are doing well, but friends and some family were not so lucky. We pray for those affected. Tornadoes missed us by a few miles.”

At least 15 people have died as a result of the devastating storms that left a trail of destruction in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas on Sunday.

The terrifying ordeal comes after an extremely difficult few months for the couple, who honored their stillborn daughter with a moving funeral service on April 19.

“Isla Marie, our little girl. We will love you forever and hold you in our hearts until we hold you in heaven,” the couple captioned photos of the memorial via a joint. Instagram post on April 23.

The photos showed a small white box decorated with flowers and a stuffed rabbit. Next to the box was a bouquet of pink flowers, the vase of which was wrapped with a matching pink bow.

Photos posted on Instagram more recently, it also shows the couple commemorating their baby’s life through a funeral service.

“We love and miss you, baby girl!” Duggar captioned the April 26 post before sharing that the song “we sang at Isla’s graveside service is one we sang to each of our children in the womb.”

Duggar and Dillard share three sons together: Israel, 9, Samuel, 6, and Freddy, 22 months.

The funeral service took place almost two weeks after the couple shared the news of their baby’s stillbirth via Instagram. “It is with heavy hearts that we announce the stillbirth of our beautiful baby girl, Isla Marie Dillard,” they wrote in a joint post on April 13. “Jill was four months pregnant (delivery in August) when we found out our baby died in the womb.”

Before welcoming little Freddy in July 2022, Jill suffered a pregnancy loss. “We recently found out we were expecting our third child,” she explained via Instagram in October 2021. “We were very happy! But a few days later we had a miscarriage. We love and miss you River Bliss!”