Little People, Big World Stars Amy and Matt Roloff File for Divorce

The greater Portland area's biggest reality stars don't love each other any more.

It's a sad, sad day for everyone who still believes in love on reality television—the greater Portland area's own Amy and Matt Roloff have filed for divorce.

"After 27 years of marriage, it is with great sadness that we have come to the difficult decision to file for divorce," the couple told Us Weekly on Friday.

The Roloffs rose to fame when TLC decided to film their daily size-based challenges in 2006, early in the days when the channel turned away from learning and toward voyeurism (the parents and one son have been diagnosed with dwarfism while the three other children are unaffected by the condition). Though their original show ended in 2010, the family still runs Roloff Farms in Helvetia, just outside of Portland, where during pumpkin season a person could conceivably take a wagon ride and a pony ride and a "kiddy" train ride and experience something called "The Giant Slingshot," all in one extremely whimsical day. 

So, love is dead but don't give up hope completely...business partnerships last forever!

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Lizzy Acker

Lizzy Acker is Willamette Week's former web editor. Her first book, Monster Party, came out in 2010. She was born in Oregon, lived in San Francisco for almost eight years and then moved back to Oregon, just like everyone always knew she would.

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