The Untold Truth Of Glennon Doyle

Publish date: 2024-05-05

Speaking to ELLE in 2017, Glennon Doyle opened up about how her parents sought to create a storybook childhood for her and her three siblings. Nevertheless, the self-professed wildchild acted out through alcohol and drugs, in addition to struggling with disordered eating. "I had a relatively magical childhood, which added an extra layer of guilt to my pain and confusion," Doyle detailed in her memoir Carry On, Warrior. "Glennon — why are you all jacked up when you have no excuse to be jacked up?"

According to ELLE, graduating from college did nothing to slow Doyle's self-destructive pace. At 24 years old, she met Craig Melton, a semi-pro soccer player, with whom she began "drinking and drugging constantly," as Doyle wrote in Carry On, Warrior.

After finding herself pregnant for the second time — she had chosen to terminate her first pregnancy, according to Carry On, Warrior — Doyle decided to have the baby. "I became aware, there on the floor, that I will have this baby," she wrote in Love Warrior. The pregnancy inspired her to quit everything that same afternoon and marry Melton in a backyard ceremony. Doyle had her baby boy, Chase, in 2002 and the family grew to welcome two more girls in 2006 and 2008, according to ELLE.

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