Listen 6 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article ShareHeather Armstrong, a pioneering blogger who transformed women’s media and altered the public perception of motherhood, has died at the age of 47. Ashdown said that Armstrong had recently relapsed into alcoholism after remaining sober for more than 18 months. Armstrong was born on July 19, 1975, and grew up in Memphis, before majoring in English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. It quickly amassed a dedicated following of young mothers who found Heather Armstrong’s candid and deeply personal posts about the realities of motherhood captivating. … The whole domain of media around parenting was male-dominated, and when it focused on women it was sanitized.

Source: New York Times May 11, 2023 11:52 UTC