During part one of TLC's three-part special "Jill and Jessa: Counting On," Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald reflected on being victims of their older brother Josh's molestation scandal, the oldest kids of the Duggar clan opened up and reacted to Josh's Ashley Madison cheating scandal, and Jessa prepared for the birth of her first son with husband Ben Seewald.
The episode was comprised of a series of on-camera interviews, first with Jill and Jessa. The girls took turns addressing how they felt when it was revealed that they were two of Josh's victims when the molestation scandal broke, which was a first of two scandals that rocked the Duggar family this year.
"We had moved on from there," Jill, 24, said. "You don't want that rubbed in your face all the time for everyone to see."
"Because of who my family is, the Christian values that we hold to, people are like, 'Y'all aren't perfect?' and I'm like, 'We never claimed to be perfect,'" Jessa, 23, said in defense of her family.
The topic then turned their 27-year-old brother's second scandal, when he was outed in the Ashley Madison hack as a cheater. Josh would eventually admit to cheating on his wife Anna and later admitted himself into a faith-based rehab center for sex addiction, as previously reported by HNGN.
Jill, Jessa, older sister Jana, 25, Jinger, 21, and Joy-Anna, 18, took turns opening up about how they each dealt with the scandal. Jill and Jessa both said they struggled with coming to terms with Josh's cheating and sex addiction scandal, after they both publicly defended him during the family's interview earlier this year on Megyn Kelly's Fox News show "The Kelly File."
"Knowing now what Joshua was hiding," Jill said, wiping away tears. "I feel like it wasn't right for him to let us speak our words without having the full knowledge of what he was hiding."
The oldest Duggar sons John-David, 25, and Joseph, 20, also opened up about how they've handled their big brother's scandals and they were even harder on Josh than their sisters were. John-David said that since the scandal, he's been working extra hard to be a good role model for his younger siblings since they look up to him, the same way that he looked up to Josh.
"One of the toughest things I ever had to tell my older brother was, 'I don't want to be like you anymore,'" John-David said.
The episode then took on a lighter note when Jill and Jessa playfully argued over who gained the most weight during their first pregnancy. Jill and Derek also gave Jessa and Ben advice on becoming new parents, and Jessa and her sisters shopped for baby clothes.
Watch a clip from part one of "Jill and Jessa: Counting On" below.
