Who is The Pioneer Woman in real life? Ree Drummond is a blogger, author and TV show host for the Food Network – but what are her family’s links to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon?
Anne Marie “Ree” Drummond, the American chef beloved for her wholesome, home-made recipes, recently celebrated Thanksgiving with her whole family – including her kids Alex, 26, Paige, 23, Bryce, 21, Todd, 19, and foster son Jamar Goff, 21 per People.
Fans were eager to get a glimpse into the Drummond family’s festivities on the Drummond’s Pawhuska, Oklahoma ranch.
In case you haven’t come across Drummond yet, here’s everything you need to know about her – and what she’s been up to lately.
Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman, is a blogger and TV host
The 54-year-old Oklahoma native is an American blogger, author, food writer and TV personality, best known for her work under the brand, The Pioneer Woman. She has a blog called ThePioneerWoman.com and has been a host for the Food Network’s The Pioneer Woman TV show under the same name since 2011.
She is a New York Times-bestselling author
Drummond is an established author with dozens of cookbooks, children’s books and memoirs to her name. According to Thrift Books, her most popular books include The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Ranch Wife, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier and The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays.
How did The Pioneer Woman get famous?
According to Mashed, Drummond started her blog back in 2006, and has since built her fan base through her articles and her popular TV show on Food Network.
Is The Pioneer Woman still married to her husband?
Ree has been married to her cattle rancher husband, Ladd Drummond, since 1996. The long-time couple celebrated their 27th anniversary this year. Per Hello! they first met at a local Oklahoma bar, after Ree had graduated from university in California and right before she was set to move to Chicago.
How is The Pioneer Woman connected to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon?
A Vanity Fair report published in October unveiled the “strange but true” story about The Pioneer Woman’s link to Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-tipped film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which tells the story of the 1920s-era Osage Indians murders, starring Hollywood bigwigs Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
A tweet that later went viral stated: “my mum just said her ‘roman empire’ is how the pioneer woman’s family owns all the land killers of the flower moon is about”, kicking off a heated conversation around The Pioneer Woman and her origins. Per British media, the Drummonds are one of the largest landowning families in the state of Oklahoma. Vanity Fair also reports that a 2022 Bloomberg podcast claimed Oklahoma’s Drummond extended family owns an estimated nine per cent of Osage County Land, worth some US$275 million.
- The Oklahoma native recently spent Thanksgiving with her kids – Alex, 26, Paige, 23, Bryce, 21, Todd, 19, and foster son Jamar Goff, 21 – at their Drummond Ranch in Pawhuska
- She wrote The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Ranch Wife and The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier, among others, and has been married to Ladd Drummond for 27 years