stacia says:

Meaning that her schtick is manufactured and what is manufactured, isn’t done very well.

1. She portrays herself as a woman who does it all (and complaining about it) while isolated on a 150,000+ acre ranch, conveniently not mentioning she has (and this has been confirmed) a nanny, a housekeeper, a personal assistant, a separate assistant that handles the giveaways on her blog, several people to handle the technical aspects of her blog and several teachers that come out to the ranch and teach her kids for her while she claims on her blog that she Homeschool’s them all by herself. She even ALLEGEDLY lied about the way she met her husband since the original way obviously wasn’t sufficiently interesting for her “Love Story.”

2. Her “woe is me, I never expected this fame” schtick got old real quick when readers figured out she had planned her fame from the beginning. Nothing wrong with it, but most would have appreciated some honesty. As some readers discovered while surfing the archives, that kitchen she filmed the show in is not her everyday kitchen. She and her (multi-millionaire land baron) husband built a second 6,000+ sq. ft. residence specifically to host a reality dating type show they were pitching to several television companies. The concept was a cross between The Bachelor and American Cowboy. When that didn’t fly they tried to come up with several other ideas that didn’t pan out either. Finally, they bit the bullet and hired a professional PR firm to pitch the Pioneer Woman brand to the media and especially the Food Network. She always seems surprised and humbled when she wins a bloggie nomination, is invited to a televised interview, or “asked” to speak at a conference. What she fails to mention to her readers is that SHE (or her publicist) is the one who pitches her brand to get her those interviews, and submits herself for consideration as a speaker for those conferences.

3. Her recipes on her blog are mediocre on a very good day. They are notoriously unhealthy resembling the type of cooking Paula Dean does on her show. The main difference between the two is that Pioneer Woman adds a colossal amount of chili peppers and jalapenos to her food and not so much Paula. Overall the recipes have too much salt, too much alcohol, way too much butter and too much chili in them to be good —- and her cooking, shockingly, is geared for the novice cook. I pity the neophyte in the kitchen who makes these concoctions and thinks she’s learning to prepare quality meals. One of Pioneer Woman’s most controversial recipes is the The Bread. Visit her site and check it out yourself.

4. Long time blog readers also have a distaste for her “white-washing” her blog. She has deleted controversial posts and edited previous references to her use of offensive slurs directed to her developmentally-challenged brother. She also mocks her youngest child’s speech impediment. She has systematically scrubbed her blog of any controversial thing she has said or done in the past five years. Unfortunately for her, the internet never forgets and some readers have screen shots of some of those blog posts calling her brother retarded and of her mocking her child.

5. People who have met her have commented on her behavior and attitude off the ranch and outside of her “brand.” It isn’t pretty.

Allegedly.