News about Heather Armstrong

An examination of the ORIGINAL mommy blogging celebrities' demise

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 13, 2023
Women revolutionized parenting with their online tips back in the early 2000s. 'Mommy blogging' was on the internet as women revolutionized parenting with their online tips. As many laid bare their own struggles, including renowned blogger Heather Armstrong, who died earlier this week, mothers were captivated with their candid advice and reveals. Dooce, a blogger who lived with two children, chronicled her own experiences as a mother of two girls and her battles with alcohol and depression. Her experiences were only the tip of the iceberg relative to the rest of the blogging world, with some of the company's stars being embroiled in scandals after being seen on camera, including one mother who came under fire for encouraging her son to cry on camera, and another family was chastised for'rehoming' their adopted child. However, other scandals were much worse, and involved second-degree murder convictions and accusations of child cruelty. FEMAIL has avoided the worst scandals that have rocked the world of mommy blogging.

Heather Armstrong, a pioneering influencer, was ruthlessly pursued by trolls.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 13, 2023
Heather B. Armstrong, a'mommy' blogger whose suicide was confirmed by suicide on Wednesday, said the trolls attacking her had harmed her fragile mental stability. The trolling was mainly on a website created by the self-professed'most reviled woman on the web,' Alice Wright of New York said. In 2008, Wright founded GOMI – Get Off My Internets – as a forum for bullying well-known people. Armstrong, who wrote under the name Dooce, appeared in articles such as: 'Dooce Will Bravely Post Soul Sponsored Content'. Others include: 'Dooce Wants You to Know Your Struggle,' and 'Dooce Does Not Want You To Know Your Struggle', according to others, and "Dooce Should Know's Worry Is Sponsored by Headache Medicine.' Jill Smokler, Armstrong's cousin, told The New York Times, 'I had some bad experiences with them, but they were so bad with her.' I was chastised for my parenting, but Heather and I became really personal with her. It was complete bullying and so cruel.'

Who is Heather Armstrong's boyfriend Pete Ashdown?

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 11, 2023
Heather Armstrong (pictured right) died of suicide on Tuesday, May 20, 2023, as announced by her partner Pete Ashdown (pictured left and right). The writer, who goes by the pseudonym "Dooce"), began blogging in 2001 and was rated as one of Forbes' most influential women in media in 2009. Armstrong, a female, born Heather Brooke Hamilton, retweeted blogging in the mid-2010s after her separation from Jon Armstrong and depressed by depression.

We have a hope that we'll see her again,' Heather Armstrong, a blogger, tells of her family's loss

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 11, 2023
Linda Hamilton-Oar (left), whose much-loved blogger daughter 'Dooce' (right), was announced on Wednesday to have died, and she has paid tribute to her. Heather Armstrong was 47 years old. Pete Ashdow, Armstrong's girlfriend, told The Associated Press that she died by suicide after recently relapsed after 18 months of sobriety. Hamilton-Oar is a female journalist who was shocked by her death but was finding solace in their faith, according to DailyMail.com. We're devastated as a family, but we have a hope that we'll see her again,' she said.

Heather Armstrong, a 'Queen of the mother blog's, has died at the age of 48.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 10, 2023
Armstrong, a resident of Salt Lake City, burst on the internet in the early 2000s and became a pioneering blogger, speaking openly about her struggles with motherhood, depression, and alcoholism. On her Instagram profile today, she revealed her death. Heather B. Armstrong aka Dooce aka Dooce aka my love of my life, 'Heather Brooke Hamilton aka Dooce.' May 19, 1975 - May 9, 2023. "It takes an ocean not to break." The newspaper read, 'Hold your loved ones close and love all else.'