In an interview with the New York Post, Blogger Josie Denise explains how family events would be staged weeks in advance so that the post could go up on time. She said she spent more time getting the perfect photo than actually enjoying time with her family.
A former marketing director, Denise started her blog, “American Mama,” and quickly became known as an influencer in the world of mommy blogs. Denise had a monthly readership in the tens of thousands and generated nearly $12,000 in the first six months alone. However, the fake, yet cheerful front Denise created had started to wear thin on her.
“I was playing [a board] game with [my family], but I wasn’t really there,” said Denise. “I was watching and thinking about how I was going to caption the photo I’d take. It all took away from real time with my kids.”
After Denise gave birth to her third child, she had an epiphany. Besides going through a divorce, Denise was struggling with postpartum depression, so she decided to move back home and take a break from blogging.
Readers were shocked to find that Denise shut down her blog and wrote, “Nobody is reading your s–t,” Denise wrote in a post entitled “Dear Mommy Blogger.” “You are not being helpful, and you are not being interesting.”
Denise tells her followers that she has been manipulated by big brands, and wasted tons of money on professional advice. She even says that many bloggers are afraid to tell the truth when they’re doing product reviews since they get paid to write about them. But after switching up the tone of her blog and making it more authentic and genuine, Denise tells Good Morning America she feels relieved. She says she did not intend to attack an industry, and only wanted to show others that there is a better way to live.
Denise’s last words of advice are to “just quit.” “Quit now before you get burnt out and feel guilty. Quit before you realize you wasted years of your life writing bulls*** about your kids’ childhood and your relationships instead of being actually involved.”
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Popular Mommy Blogger Confesses Everything She Writes Is ‘BS’ is an article from: LifeDaily