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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read her blog when it first started, but I don't follow her now. She definitely appeals to a certain demographic and is wildly popular.

I have family in Oklahoma and I actually met her at a Barnes and Noble in Oklahoma many years ago. Her story was that she was a city girl in LA who became an accidental country girl after she met her husband. She always talked about how out of place she felt living in the middle of "nowhere" but the reality is she grew up only about 30 minutes away from where she lives now.[/quote]

I read her blog regularly in the early days and she was always upfront about being from Oklahoma and there was a bio section on the blog that described it neatly. She was a town girl who married a rancher. And she spent some years in LA and she did talk about visions of being a glamorous urbanite only to end up living in the middle of nowhere, aka ranch country. It's her humor, including the name of the blog.

I am not a "fan" but some of you are trying to turn her into a a different persona that isn't quite justified. [/quote]

Ree is very smart, but this persona is definitely her shtick. It's why so many people, even on this thread, think she's "urban" and not from Oklahoma. She's a fantastic business woman and married to one of the wealthiest ranchers in the US, but she'd like you to believe she's just a busy rancher's wife tasked with the job of wrestling up food for hungry cowboys. It's good marketing, but all those little half truths also rub people the wrong way when it is portrayed as being the reality of her life. Being a "city girl" turned pioneer woman is a much more interesting story than being a woman from small town Oklahoma who marries a rancher from another nearby small town. She is a city girl in the same way that Hilaria Baldwin is from Spain.[/quote]

I don't care about how she is a triumph of marketing this persona and outsourcing pretty much all the work of her life (writing the blog, developing recipes, homeschooling -- she does none of that) except to the extent that other women without staffs think they ought to be able to pull off something similar despite not having her marketing background or her resources.

I don't care that Hilary isn't Spanish. I mind very much that she tries to claim that she understands racism because people think she's her kids' nanny and that she claims one can get a slammin' bod by doing some pushups off the bathroom sink. [/quote]

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