Author and motivational speaker Rachel Hollis and her husband, Dave Hollis, announced that they’re ending their marriage, Us Weekly reports.
Rachel Hollis, author of the bestsellers Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, revealed on her Instagram page that her marriage is coming to an end.
“We started out as best friends 18 years ago and the truth is, that core friendship and the parts of us that work so well, have become a band-aid for the parts of us that don’t,” she wrote. “We remain dear friends as we raise our family as co-parents and run our company as partners. We are choosing joy—even though, I’ll be honest, the last month has been one of the most awful of our lives.”
Dave Hollis also took to Instagram to share the news, writing, “As much as this isn’t the way we may have dreamed up the future of how our family or friendship would look, while of course there is overwhelming sadness, there is also a massive sense of gratitude for what was as we transition into the promise for what will be.”
Rachel Hollis’ two books, which mix self-help with memoir, have been massive bestsellers, and spawned a hugely successful lifestyle brand. Dave Hollis is also an author, though a newly minted one—his first book, Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic’s Guide to Growth and Fulfillment, was published in March.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
