Ree Drummond, a popular Food Network personality and creator of the Pioneer Woman lifestyle blog, has provided an update on her daughter Paige Drummond, sharing that her second eldest child quit her corporate job to work full time at the family’s cattle ranch. “She can really hold her own with the cowboys,” Ree Drummond said. “She’s not learning it for the first time.
She grew up doing this.” Paige Drummond is the first of the Drummonds’ five children to return to the family business, which Ladd—a fourth-generation cattle rancher—runs. The couple, who wed in 1996, also share daughter Alex Drummond Scott, 27, sons Bryce Drummond, 21, and Todd Drummond, 20, and are foster parents to son Jamar Goff, 21.
“This job is not like a hands-off job. It’s physical, it’s tiring, you get kicked by cattle, like, I have bruises all over my legs,” Paige Drummond shared in a video accompanying the blog entry. “It’s definitely something where you kind of feel and see the physical toll of it.
” For these reasons, Paige Drummond—who now lives in the home of her late grandfather, Chuck Drummond—acknowledged that she didn’t enjoy her work on the ranch growing up. “I never really thought that I would be back here working on the ranch—I kind of had it written off,” she said. “But then as I got older and I went away to college and then started working a full-time job, I just really realized how much I missed it and that I just kind of wanted to come back he.