Pioneering mommy blogger Heather Armstrong has died at 47
Heather Armstrong talks about her career as a professional blogger during an interview in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, July 18, 2008he pioneering mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, who laid bare her struggles as a parent and her battles with depression and alcoholism on her site Dooce.com and on social media, has died at 47.
That year, Armstrong appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and was on the Forbes list of the most influential women in media. She went on: “Sobriety was not some mystery I had to solve. It was simply looking at all my wounds and learning how to live with them.” She was soon pregnant. The pregnancy offered “an endless trove” of content, she wrote, “but I truly believed that I would give it all up once I had the baby.”“I don’t think I would have survived it had I not offered up my story and reached out to bridge the loneliness,” she wrote.
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