Ever hear the one about the woman who got a divorce and stayed friends with her ex-husband? It’s not a joke, it’s a mature and empowering life decision that we’re starting to think is the move. This week was full of stories of thriving divorced women moving on and moving up while keeping things cool with their exes, a modern happily ever after.
Glamour‘s Woman of the Year Donna Kelce, mother to Travis and Jason, and her husband separated during their sons’ childhood, but they couldn’t split for financial and logistical reasons. Still, the two managed to stay simpatico while living in the same house. “My husband and I knew that our marriage was not working, but we stayed together for the kids. Ours was a very friendly relationship. So, we could do that and make sure that their life was normal as possible,” she told Glamour, adding that she worked “really, really hard” in her job as a banker as well.
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Now, not only does she have freedom and stability, she’s even embarking on a new challenge: acting. Like her son Travis in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie, Donna is seeing how far her platform will take her, saying, “I know they’re interested because of who my children are and who they know, and I just take it with a grain of salt.” Kelce recently shot her first movie, calling the experience “really fun.”
Then there’s Ali Wong, who just dropped her first post-divorce special, Single Lady, on Netflix. The comedian specifically cites her “divorced mom energy” as a huge turn-on for dudes, and details how, for a long time after splitting from her husband, Wong was, to put it bluntly, in a promiscuous phase. During her hour, which is already climbing the Netflix charts, and which Variety called “hilariously debauched,” Wong candidly describes cashing in all her fame chips to have sex with anyone and everyone. She joined an unnamed dating app (probably Raya) and boned everyone from a himbo 25-year-old to a 60-year-old former surfer, both of whom, in her telling, knew exactly what to do.
