Heather Armstrong, who chronicled her life, marriage and motherhood via her blog, has died at home in Salt Lake City.
The pioneering blogger Heather Armstrong, who laid bare her struggles as a mother and her battles with depression and alcoholism on her site Dooce.com and on social media, has died at 47.
She parlayed her successes with the blog, on Instagram and elsewhere into book deals, putting out a bestselling memoir in 2009,"It Sucked and then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita." Her three books were published by Simon & Schuster, which is owned by the same parent company as CBS News. In 2012, the Armstrongs announced they were separating. They divorced later that year. She began dating Ashdown, a former U.S.
In her memoir, she described how her blog began as a way to share her thoughts on pop culture with faraway friends. Within a year, her audience grew from a few friends to thousands of strangers around the world, she wrote. 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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