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Amy Duggar Shares New Update on Husband Dillon After His Health Scare
Amy Duggar and her husband, Dillon King, recently appeared in Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War, a follow-up to the critically-acclaimed first season focusing on the Duggar family. The couple will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary this September, and they’ve had quite a rollercoaster year leading up to this milestone.
Back in April 2025, King was diagnosed with a severe diaphragmatic rupture, which caused vital organs to move into his chest cavity. Duggar spoke with Swooon about how her husband is doing today following his terrifying health challenge.
“He has a four-by-four hole in his chest cavity, and all of his organs have moved up the chest area, so it’s actually kind of worrisome, for sure, but we also found out that he has celiac disease, so I’ve been poisoning him for 10 years with bread and all the things,” Duggar explained. “We just thought it was dairy-related, so he feels a million times better now. We changed his entire diet. Everything is better, and he still has that hole, but he doesn’t feel like he’s gonna die every day. I mean, at one point, he would just sit in a chair for hours. He wouldn’t move, wouldn’t do anything. So the fact that he’s feeling like himself and playing golf again, and he can do the things that he loves again, is everything.”
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Duggar noted that her husband will “probably” need surgery at some point. “But we’re kind of on this thought process of thinking that it has always been there,” she said. “We think that he was born with it. It’s like, why fix something that’s not really causing this much of an issue. We thought it was a huge issue, and then we looked more into it. We’re like, I think this has been here for a really long time. You could tell on the X rays and stuff. We’re just kind of figuring it all out.”
The couple’s wedding anniversary falls on September 6. “We’re hoping to maybe get out of the country and go relax and just enjoy each other,” the 38-year-old revealed.
Looking back on 10 years of marriage, which included the arrival of son Daxton, Duggar candidly shared that the best thing about her husband and their relationship is “the fact that we can fight, right? We can drop down arguments. We can have those moments where it’s like, ‘I can’t stand you. You need to walk away. I don’t want to see for the next 15 minutes.’ And then we know that, once we cool down and all of that, the love is still there.”
She continued, “No one says that marriage is going to be perfect. That doesn’t even exist. Perfection does not exist. It’s just knowing that we’re in it for life, regardless of the ups and downs and all the things. We’re in it for life, and I can always count on him. I can look like trash, and he can do whatever, and we’re like, ‘All right, we’re in it for life, and we’re going to be faithful.’ We were best friends for six years before we ever got married, so he’s been in it for a while. I mean, he deserves a trophy, and so do I.”
Their special day comes just a handful of weeks before Duggar’s memoir, Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade While Getting Louder with the Truth, comes out on October 14.
