The news of the death of Heather Armstrong, the famous “mom blogger” moves not only his followers on social media but also all those who hear the news.
Is that according to his partner, the former candidate for a seat in the US Senate, Pete Ashdown, the 47-year-old woman committed suicide at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mother of two, writer and talented reporter of what she experienced day by day, among other things, Erica Armstrong has been described as “The Queen of Blogger Moms” in an article by The New York Times magazine and has even joined the list of Forbes as one of the most influential women in media.
Who was Heather Armstrong
Her name was Erica Brooke Armstrong She was born on July 19, 1975 and was found dead in her home on May 9.
The blogger grew up in Memphis, Tennessee in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsBut abandoned faith after graduating from Brigham Young University and moving to Los Angeles.
She reportedly suffered from chronic depression most of her life, but it wasn’t diagnosed and treated until she entered college.
In 2001 he started writing a personal blog. First, she recounted work situations, which cost her her job a year later when her colleagues found out she was the one reporting them online.
The worst was when he wrote against his boss, the owner of the tech company where he worked, which he wanted “strangle”,
then followed with advice for mothers, texts in which she highlighted controversial aspects of motherhood. In that period of blogging boom, a young Heather she candidly recounted issues about her children, relationships, and other issues she faced.
under the pseudonym twelve And with Jon Armstrong – her ex-husband and father of her two children – as a partner, she positioned herself as a web pioneer at the time.
Five years later, he reportedly earned more than $100,000 a year.
As an Internet phenomenon, the “queen of blogging moms” has appeared in oprah winfrey showForbes magazine named her among 30 honorees in its 2009 list of “The Most Influential Women in Media” and she has also written an essay, a autobiography and, in 2019, the Chronicle of how it was a cure for depression to which he submitted.
They raw posts — she also uploaded to Instagram — about all kinds of topics, from pregnancy and breastfeeding to homework and carpooling, were often accompanied by rude profanity.
Therefore, with the growth of its popularity, the criticswho accused her of being rude to her children and other things.
In 2012, she separated from her husband. And six years ago she started dating Ashdown, her current partner. They lived together with the Armstrong children, Leta (19) and Marlo (13).
But beyond trying to reposition herself in a world of unsympathetic social media and evolving trends, Heather Armstrong has struggled his own battles with alcohol. Yes, alcohol had taken her to dark places she had a hard time getting out of. And she also shared this struggle with her own followers.
“On October 8, 2021, I celebrated six months sober alone on the floor next to my bed, I felt like I was a wounded animal that wanted to be left alone to die,” she wrote at the time.
And he added: “There was no one in my life who could understand how symbolic that victory was for me., albeit… full of tears and sobs so violent that at one point I thought my body would break in two. Grief washed over me in waves of pain. For a few hours I had difficulty breathing”.
“Sobriety wasn’t a mystery I had to solve. he was alone look at all my wounds and learn to live with them”.
This Tuesday, May 9, her boyfriend found her dead at home.
Source: Clarin
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