Every time this chick comes up in conversation, I (a) admire her honesty, and (b) can't help but note how much flack she takes from the entire world for saying this stuff.

I do wonder what her astrology is and what brings the flack on. I had to check her birthday (Wikipedia). Don't know the birth time, but she has a Sadge Sun, of course... Pisces Moon conjunct Chiron = pain and drama, and that's opposed to a Mars/Pluto/Uranus (heavy anger + unexpected) conjunction. Hoo boy. And Venus Neptune conjunct and opposed to Jupiter. And a Gemini NN so she needs to blab, I suppose. 

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Just that I heard an interview with her the other day on NPR- she was very articulate and talked about that controversy. Sounds like she has a very wonderful marriage and rich creative life for sure. If you haven't already, you might want to search out that interview. Think it was on Fresh Air.