Amanda Kloots Admits She Hates The Word ‘Widow’, Asks To Be Called ‘Renovare’ Instead

etcanada.com:

Amanda Kloots wants to be called “Renovare”. In a candid Instagram post, the host of Global’s “The Talk”, 39, who lost her husband Nick Cordero last year to COVID-19 complications, explained why she hates the word “widow.” “Did you know that the Indo-European root meaning of the word widow means ‘be empty?’ Be empty. ‘Be,’ in case you forgot, is a verb, an action word.

I have to identify myself with a word and that means to stay ‘empty’ – no wonder I hate saying the word! I am not a glass half empty kind of girl!” she began in her post. “What’s ironic to me is that in meeting and spending time with other widows and widowers we are doing everything but ‘being empty.’ We are desperate to FILL our cup!