Heather Armstrong: 'Queen of mommy blogging' dead at 47
Heather Armstrong, who found success in the 2000s documenting the ups and downs of motherhood on her blogging website Dooce, has passed away at age 47 Her partner Pete Ashdown told the Associated Press he had located Armstrong on Tuesday evening in their Utah home.
The "queen of mommy blogging" composed often concerning her kids, partnerships as well as individual battles.At the elevation of its popularity, Dooce received greater than 8 million site visitors a month, according to Vox.
That remained in 2009 - the exact same year Armstrong was called in Forbes annual checklist of the 30 most influential women in media.Armstrong started Dooce in the very early 2000s as a location to dish regarding job, sex and leaving the Mormon church.
The site's name originated from a within joke that riffed on how she was not able to define words "dude" quickly in on the internet chats, according to records from the Associated Press and New York Times.
In 2002, Armstrong was terminated from her work as an internet designer in Los Angeles after the snarky blog site-in which she offered coworkers labels like That a person Associate That Manages to Say Something Dumb Every Single Time He Opens His Mouth - was located to be hers.
Her ouster, and also the factor for it, stirred up a public dispute concerning personal privacy - as well as improved traffic to her blog.
The website reactivated six months later on as a different type of blog site after she became pregnant the following year. Embracing sincerity in her writing, Armstrong outlined her kids'' s temper tantrums, her psychological health and wellness difficulties, and also her battle with alcohol addiction and postpartum depression.
According to an estimate priced estimate in the Wall Street Journal, by 2009, the blog may have produced $40,000 ( 32,000) a month in profits from paid advertising and marketing.
Armstrong parlayed her success right into a solid social networks existence and also 3 publications, including the 2009 memoir It Sucked and then I Cried: Exactly how I Had a Baby, a Breakdown as well as a Much Needed Margarita.
According to guide, she experienced persistent clinical depression throughout her life and also it was not treated until she got to university.
A caption on a Dooce Instagram page on Wednesday announcing her fatality said: "Hold your enjoyed ones close as well as enjoy everybody else"
Mr Ashdown told the AP that his partner had actually been sober for greater than 18 months but had just recently had a relapse. He stated she had actually passed away by self-destruction.
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