Writing
Sep 11, 1964
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Tracy McMillan
Writing
Biography
Tracy McMillan (born September 12, 1964) is an American author, television writer, TV host, and self-proclaimed relationship expert. She wrote television news for 15 years and transitioned into writing film, television, and books. In 2011, she wrote a blog post called WHY YOU’RE NOT MARRIED, which went viral and is now the most-viewed article on the Huffington Post ever. Time magazine named it one of the Top Ten Opinion Pieces of 2011. She also wrote a book based on it, Why You're Not Married... Yet (2012). Her screenwriting credits include Mad Men, Necessary Roughness, Chase, Life on Mars, and The United States of Tara. She won the 2010 Writers Guild of America Awards for Dramatic Series for Mad Men, along with other writers of the series. As a relationship expert, she's made numerous television and radio appearances, including as a matchmaker on the NBC dating reality show Ready for Love, as well as The Today Show, Katie, Bethenny, Dr. Drew's Lifechangers, and Oprah's Super Soul Sunday. She is the relationship expert on the OWN channel's Family or Fiancé (2020- ). She is the author of a memoir, I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway (2010) and her debut novel, You'll Know It When You See It (2015). She continues to write occasionally for the Huffington Post.
Television & Series (1)
"Family or Fiancé" follows the dynamics between engaged couples who bring their disapproving families together under one roof. The families only spend 3 days with each other, and the clock is ticking as the couples decide if they're going to tie the knot. It's a no-holds-barred look at what it's really like when the people closest to you have major issues with the one you want to marry. Serving as the voice of reason is relationship expert Tracy McMillan, who helps the couple confront their families' concerns. She works with the newly engaged couple on ways to strengthen their bond, air their differences and reveal their true selves to their families, for better or worse. At the end of the third and final day, the families are given their chance to speak now or forever hold their peace leaving the couple to make the ultimate choice — "I do" or "I don't."