Creator and Mother Blogger Heather “Dooce” Armstrong Lifeless at 47 – E! On-line

The running a blog world has misplaced a pioneer.

Heather Armstrong, a author who kick-started the mommy running a blog development by chronicling her parenthood journey on her web site Dooce through the early aughts, died Could 9, in accordance with a put up shared to her Instagram web page. She was 47.

“Heather Brooke Hamilton aka Heather B. Armstrong aka dooce aka love of my life,” the May 10 post read. “July 19, 1975 – Could 9, 2023. ‘It takes an ocean to not break.’ Maintain your family members shut and love everybody else.”

Armstrong died by suicide at her Salt Lake Metropolis dwelling, her boyfriend Pete Ashdown informed the Associated Press. He famous that Armstrong had skilled a relapse after being sober for over 18 months.

Armstrong started running a blog beneath the pseudonym Dooce in 2001, rising to mommy blogger fame as she gave an unflinching look into her household life on the area of the identical identify. She wrote extensively about psychological well being, her restoration from alcohol abuse and insights into motherhood as she raised daughters Leta, 19, and Marlo, 13, whom she each shares with ex husband Jon Armstrong.