Tracy McMillan

Tracy McMillan is an author, television writer, and relationship expert. Growing up in Minneapolis, her childhood involved foster care, prison visits, and multiple moms, which gave her lots of opportunities to interact with some of the darker aspects of human nature. People ask her how she survived, and McMillan says she thinks it comes down to 1) Finding pretty much everything funny and 2) being willing to get a paper route. In winter. In Minnesota.

Naturally, her dramatic childhood led to a rather eventful adulthood involving multiple cities, husbands, spiritual paths, and careers. If you want all the gory details, read her memoir, "I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway." But here are the broad strokes: She wrote television news for 15 years, got married a bunch, had a beautiful, amazing kid, and transitioned into writing film, television, and books.

Her big television credit is "Mad Men," for which she won the 2010 Writers Guild of America Awards for Dramatic Series along with other writers, but McMillan has also written for other shows like "United States of Tara" and "Necessary Roughness." She was also a matchmaker on NBC's "Ready For Love," a dating reality show. She is a current writer on Hulu's "Unprisoned."

In 2011, Tracy wrote "Why You're Not Married," which is now the most-viewed article on the Huffington Post ever. Time magazine named it one of the Top Ten Opinion Pieces of 2011. It’s about everything she's ever learned in relationships, which is a lot. Especially about what chicks do wrong — since she says she's done so much of that herself — and also what to do right, since she's done a lot of that, too. This piece led to her book, "Why You're Not Married...Yet."