Who is pioneer woman sux

Amen sister. PW is a fake, shallow, narcisstic woman- glad to hear more people are seeing through her sham. Have you seen the dog and pony show at Rechelle's? Yes, you can thank PWSux but that was a beautifully written letter. It makes my heart glad to know that there are still American women with intelligent thoughts alive and well. I do know that I could kill off my husband in a year by cooking like PW does, not that it doesn't cross my mind, but I don't need all those useless calories.

I like your site. The Egg and I is one of my all time favorite books. Love everything by Betty McDonald and desperately want to visit Vashon Island and stare at her old house some day. Great letter by the way. This letter just continuously gives me the giggles. Back last year when I was contemplating a blog, my sister insisted reading and following PW.

I couldn't do it I felt at the time her writing seemed disjointed and the calories! I've no fear of fat, but her recipes just appeared calorie ridden for extravagance sake.

It felt like a marketing ploy then.. Alas, my sister has drunk deep of the cool, cool, drink and is lost for all eternity. If I haven't said it before Thanks for the nod, you put me in some incredible company. I love your letter. I was at the same book signing as you, and actually waited until my close to the end letter was invited up. But, I didn't really fall off her wagon until I watched her on The Today Show--she is completely fake. Good letter. Thanks for posting this.

You are so right, with a full time job, a tiny urban garden and just 1 person to feed besides myself, I hardly find time to blog as much as I would like, which is a LOT less than PW does. I guess that's why I'm not making millions, but have an actual real life, right?. The PW has found a wonderful way to market herself, and that's great for her, but I'm done with her and am moving away from her blogs and the bloggers who adore her!

I teetered slightly when she made the apple turnovers with mountain dew. It wasn't necessarily the soda, but the butter.

OMG, my family had no comment other than how 'bout cutting the butter by more than half if you ever decide to make this again. Couldn't take anything but butter! It was right around the Charlie book announcement that I went right over the cliff as fast as I could to get away from her nonsense and on to what the sheeple probably consider the "dark side". Keepin' it real??? Ok, then how about Ree "confess" that once she realized her "popularity", she began designing her life towards fame?!?

Just be honest, we might even respect you for it, Ree. Sorry, I think I just blogged on your blog. Thank you for writing your letter and sharing it. Hi Jenn! I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this letter.

I also had previously drank deeply of the PW kool aid I think after she was in Southern Living. Anway, I was having fun blogging about whatever struck my fancy Suddenly my writing wasn't good enough or funny enough. I compared myself to her and found I was lacking.

In short I felt like a loser!! I became obsessed with getting more followers and studied everything she did But guess what happened? I lost myself instead But over time I woke up and realized she is a character So glad I woke up and realized that I can be me It's ok! I don't begrudge Ree her success or popularity, I just know it's not for me. Excellent letter! The more one googles, the more evidence there is that PW is the biggest fraud on the planet.

Love this. Has anyone seen when she was on the Bonnie Hunt show? She was talking like she'd never made the recipe before. Like she didn't even know what she was talking about. It's so hard to not laugh at her. Her parents must have sold her soul to the devil at birth.

I am also finding that I wanna be just like her. And I am nowhere near the level of absolute perfection that she "is". I started wondering the same thing Then I found this letter. And I find that I'm not the only one questioning the PW!? So can someone explain it all to me and fast I feel so duped! I have been struggling with PW doubts as well, and found your site through Pioneer Woman Sux tonight.

I blogged today about why I'm splitting from Ree and why she is no longer my blog idol. Thanks for expressing yourself openly and sincerely on this matter. Great post. I, like you, have become disillusioned with PW. Initially 3 years ago , I was all over her website.

I loved the layout, the stories, the pictures, the recipes. I have had great success with many of them, although disappointed in just as many dump cake and braised ribs are the ones that come to mind. But I still plugged along happily, blissfully. Then she created tasty kitchen. I found that almost unethical for some reason, that she would profit from other people who would post willingly. It was the mentioning of her BFFs hubby who was a judge, and another post made mention that the state governor had visited.

It was the more often than not guest posts in her homeschooling section. It was her photograph contests in which she chooses professional entries over amateur entries. I found that disrespectful to her base readers. It was her highly edited comments section, where dissension is not allowed. You are getting my point, no doubt. Almost unethical?? Around that time, she also began to post step-by-step cooking pictorials. These days, the lessons can be even more exhaustive—for example, how to make a smoothie in twenty-three pictures.

The readers clamored for more. She started posting regular tutorials for her simple recipes: cinnamon rolls, skillet corn bread, lasagna. Drummond brought in a marketing and Web-development firm called Voce Communications its other clients include eBay and PlayStation , which now hosts her site and manages her server. Whenever I brought up the subject of ad revenue, Drummond grew acutely uncomfortable.

Drummond gives away products she likes—iPads, KitchenAid mixers, and Nikon digital cameras—at least once a week, with each contest garnering thirty to forty thousand entries. The blond-wood kitchen has a large breakfast bar that wraps around a Viking Range, as well as two stainless-steel Bosch dishwashers.

The room opens into a den with soaring ceilings, where a colossal flat-screen television faces a prodigious brown tweed sectional couch. Pretty much everything in the Drummond house is supersized.

After returning from rounding up the cattle on that morning in November, Drummond conducted a desultory few hours of homeschooling. Ladd comes from three generations of cattle ranchers; in northeastern Oklahoma, the name Drummond carries a mystique similar to that of Astor in New York City. According to local news sources, Ladd and his brother Tim own twenty thousand acres combined.

Ree sat on the couch and put her feet up on a massive leather ottoman. Ladd, who was standing behind her, began to massage her shoulders. He joined her on the couch and cracked open a can of Dr Pepper, one of at least six that he drank that day.

They sat for a moment in the quiet. She extricated herself from the couch cushions. He also drives the kids to their soccer games or takes them out to work on the ranch, to give her time to blog. Drummond began to click through the photos she had uploaded. Her writing begins with an image. Drummond selected the photo of Todd and began to apply different effects with Photoshop. She deepened the colors, rendering his skin alabaster white, his lips rosebud pink, and his eyes a lovely but artificial shade of blue.

When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes. Drummond typed for fifteen minutes, adding and deleting text with the urgent, deliberate keystrokes of a mother who knows she may be interrupted at any moment.

Ladd slipped out to check on the kids. But Alex, the thirteen-year-old, is perhaps not entirely at ease with hers. While she describes herself as " happy, messy, and weird ," Drummond is a savvy business woman who has leveraged her charming lifestyle and storytelling abilities, into sharing her everyday life with millions of readers.

While Drummond has not been shy with information about her curious and carefree life as a wife, rancher, and mom of four, there is still so much to learn about her.

There are some things even an open book like Drummond doesn't announce to the world. From a life-changing bar encounter, to a Food Network episode she probably wishes we'd all forget, there's a whole lot to discover about The Pioneer Woman. While Drummond isn't shy about sharing her family's life on the small screen, she has to draw the line somewhere. It's not easy for family, when your mom or wife is famous for sharing your life. I've found a comfort level there of sharing.

There's a line that's there, for sure, but for me it's sort of innate and undefinable. Even though her blog is full of perfectly decorated rustic tables and cute compliments for her husband, Drummond has dealt with struggles just like each of us.

Fortunately she's had a solid partner to walk that path with her. When Drummond was first married, not only was she adjusting to a completely new life, but her entire world was in upheaval.

Despite homesickness, and her parents' divorce, she found strength in her marriage. My heart would race when I was around him. With her sweet demeanor and down home style, Drummond seems pretty scandal-proof, but she made headlines back in After re-airing an old episode of The Pioneer Woman , Food Network began hearing from angry fans about Drummond's comments in regards to her spicy Asian hot wings.

During the episode , Drummond was making snacks for game day. When she pulled the Asian hot wings out of the oven, her family looked less than enthused. Drummond laughed and pulled out a pan of traditional buffalo wings from the oven. I wouldn't do that to you," she said. The Twitter account Thick Dumpling Skin quickly tweeted, "Hey FoodNetwork — this anti-Asian sentiment being promoted on thepioneerwoman 's show really isn't cool.

Drummond has yet to comment on the matter. When we think of a rancher family, so many of us imagine Drummond in the house cooking those amazing meals while Marlboro Man drives the cattle — but don't be fooled. They have a modern marriage, and don't accept the traditional roles. When your mom is a celebrity, your life is probably super glamorous, right? Not for the Drummond kids.

Mama Ree makes her living writing about her family life for hundreds of thousands of fans, but for the kids, it's just normal life. We're very grounded here in the country. And does she seriously want to kill her family?! If you haven't, let me introduce you. I was really crestfallen.

Your pic of her "indgredients" proved it to me even more! I could not agree more. I really like Ree. I got sucked into her blog a few years ago. I had never heard of her, but caught it by accident when I was off work one morning.

Death Of Pioneer Woman's Mother. And depending on what's clean. Why would that be, these were clearly women who were far more organized and direct than I? She has so many loyal fans who are given the impression that eating like she does on a daily basis is okay.

It was the mentioning of her BFFs hubby who was a judge, and another post made mention that the state governor had visited. Which we as women should celebrate. The thing is I might not have even minded her shtick if she really sold me on it. I am so tired of the heavily scripted, over the top greasy food and unrealistic shows that food network puts out these days.

Which is very deceiving and all I can say now is "yuck". Overall, this project discovered that blogging is a medium that people turn to for self-expression and community; a space in which ordinary people can feel a sense of belonging.