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Elin Nordegren did just two interviews, both print interviews with People Magazine done four years apart, since her ex husband Tiger Woods’ serial cheating became the biggest scandal in golf in 2009. She doesn’t get enough credit for keeping her head down, for staying incredibly classy and for choosing to pursue an education. Of course she got a fat settlement and bought a mansion out of it, but she’s not living like a rock star. Elin, a Swedish immigrant who has worked as a model and nanny, got her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rollins College in Florida in 2014. She was named valedictorian and gave an inspiring commencement speech in which she sounded both humble and grateful, saying that “education has been the only consistent part of my life for the last 9 years” and calling it “the one thing that no one can take away from you.” She also said that she hoped to be an inspiration to her two children with Tiger: daughter Sam, 10, and son Charlie, 9. Now Elin is about to get her masters degree is psychology and is downsizing, having put her home on the market. She also gets along well with Tiger and they have a successful coparenting relationship.

As Woods works on his comeback, his ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, lives a quiet life in South Florida. Last month, she put her North Palm Beach mansion on the market for $49.5 million to “downsize.”

Nordegren —who shares two kids, daughter Sam, 10, and son Charlie, 9, with Woods — famously purchased a home on the 1.4 acre waterfront parcel back in 2011 for $12.25 million using part of her reported $100 million divorce settlement from Woods and demolished it to build a three-story, custom residence.

But a source close to the golfer says that the former couple gets along well now. “They’re friends now,” the insider tells PEOPLE. “Everything that happened in the past is in the past. They both decided to be adults and to do what was best for the kids. So they get along really well.”

“Tiger says really great things about Elin,” the source continues. “He never complains about her, ever. He never says things like, ‘Oh, my ex is being unreasonable.’ On the contrary, he talks about her in glowing terms. They’re closer now than they were when they were married. The kids love them both.”

Nordegren continued her education after the split. She is scheduled to get a master’s degree in psychology next month.

[From People]

This is a smart, thoughtful woman who did not act hastily and who has worked to get along with her ex despite the very public way he humiliated her. He didn’t deserve her and he still doesn’t. She could have lived well off that $100 million for the rest of her life but instead she found a calling and that has made all the difference. I’m so impressed with Elin from the small glimpse she’s given us of her life and her character. Also, if she sells that mansion for her asking price she’s going to make tidy profit. You go, Elin.

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