However, I feel this information needs to be brought to everyone's attention as much as possible.
It's no secret that Ellen Ross ("famed" for being Jon Gosselin's current girlfriend) and her advertisement blog (she calls it a "review blog") was the inspiration behind my creating this blog.
My mom mentioned Ellen Ross was claiming herself as pro- fashion expert and advice-giver. I took a look at her blog, quite in depth, and discovered that someone who is only a few months older than me dresses horrendously for her age and weight. Her elite fashion and style is that of someone still in high school. Childish colors, bright patterns, "burnout t-shirts", leggings, UGG boots, and BeDazzled everything. And to top it all off, everything she wears is many sizes too small for her nor appropriate for her body type. Ellen, that hoodie you're wearing when you're "skateboarding", isn't suppose to fit skin tight. No hoodie is suppose to fit skin tight. Not cute. Also, you wouldn't need to "review" girdles or spanks if you wore clothes your proper size and suited for your body type.
Like I previously said, I dug rather deep into her blog. Finding that all of her "reviews" read like infomercials and not ONE post amongst her thousands has a negative word to say. I want to go ahead and say this:
DO NOT RESPECT ELLEN ROSS'S REVIEWS. THEY ARE NOT REVIEWS. THEY ARE PAID OR OTHERWISE COMPENSATED ADVERTISEMENTS.
Anyway, she was my inspiration. Albeit, VERY negative inspiration. My distaste for Ellen doesn't only come from the fact she presents herself in a very trashy manner, or that she is unfortunately involved in the Gosselin 8's lives. It comes from the fact that I absolutely despise people who are not 100% forthcoming, honest and try to claim they're something when they're not even in the ballpark of what they claim.
So, I created this blog. An account of me and my journey into updating my closet and style to better suit a 20-something. Not a teenager.
So now that is out of the way, why am I making this post? Because. Ellen is indirectly (and sometimes directly) using the Gosselin children's opinions on her advertisement blog. She never refers to them as the Gosselin Children, or by name, I'll give her that. But, she does refer to "my boyfriend and his kids" or "my boyfriend's kids" and what they thought of the products. Any idiot in the world knows who Ellen Ross is due to the simple fact that she is dating Jon Gosselin. And anyone is going to assume that any children's products "reviewed" on her blog is being gathered from the Gosselin 8.
Ellen Ross NEEDS to have a FULL, LEGAL DISCLOSURE POSTED ALL OVER HER BLOG & ON ANY APPLICABLE POST that either she
- Has complete, 100% permission from Kate (acquired via the proper legal channels) to use the Gosselin's 8 children to gather opinions, reactions, reviews, information from. And also legal documentation stating that she has permission from Kate and/or Jon Gosselin to post any opinion, reaction, review, etc gathered from the Gosselin's children on her advertisement for profit/compensation blog. If this route is take, she MUST be held responsible for paying or re-paying the Gosselin's children 15% (as the law states) any money received, equal monetary value of products reviewed, and any revenues (money or other form of compensation) generated from her advertisements using the Gosselin children. This includes ALL past, present and future posts. This means that, if Ellen receive $100 for posting an advertisement using the Gosselin children, the Gosselin children are entitled to $15 of that. This ALSO included other forms of compensation. IE: If Ellen uses the Gosselin 8 to review a product that has a value of $100, the Gosselin children are entitled to 15% equal cash value, meaning $15. This includes free gifts or products purchased by Ellen and reviewed by the Gosselin Children. Any profit that Ellen is responsible for paying or re-paying the Gosselin children for should be paid in their names and put into the Gosselin children's bank account.
- Ellen posts FULL DISCLOSURE all over her blog and attached to any advertisement post applicable that the Gosselin Children were in NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM used to gather reviews, opinions, reactions, input or information on qualifying advertisements (read: any children's products). She is also held accountable for paying or re-paying the parents and/or children used to generate any opinions, reviews, input, reactions, or information in the same manner than the Gosselin children are entitled. Unless, however, so declined by any child's legal guardian, parent or otherwise.
I however believe that Ellen SHOULD NOT be allowed to review ANY children's products, whatsoever. She has no kids of her own nor legal consent to generate ANY compensation (monetary or otherwise) for children's reviews, opinions, input, reaction or information of, for or about any products she advertises. Nor does she have the right to collect 100% of any compensation (monetary or otherwise) for advertisements involving other people - especially not children( any children, Gosselin children or not) -- unless so declined by the adults involved, or the parent/legal guardian of children involved.
Ellen falsely represents herself as a fashion expert/aficionado and pro advice-giver. She is anything but these two. She is a paid advertiser and nothing more. (edit: She has recently updated her about section to include a small statement saying, "I don't have a degree but I am able to provide an unbiased opinion on every situation." This information is not clearly on display, nor readily found, though.)
And for further clarification: my blog is completely different from Ellen's. I post HONEST, TRUE reviews of items I have purchased with my own money. Negative and positive. I do not claim to be an expert in style, hair or fashion. I also do not give advice. I am not trained to give advice, whatsoever. My blog is simply a documented account of my journey into growing up my style and choices. I am sharing what I think on these products to my readers. I am not soliciting them to go out and buy merchandise. I am merely suggesting (or not) items that may interest other people with like interests in fashion and style. I am also expressing my own opinions on trends today. I only post links to items to purchase in order to make it easy for my readers to find any products or items featured on my blog. I have previously encouraged my readers to browse the internet to find better deals on products that are not store specific. I also receive no compensation, monetary or otherwise for anything posted on this blog. Ellen does. Ellen is a paid advertisement blogger. Short and simple.
Dear readers, SPEAK OUT. Stop Ellen from exploiting the Gosselin children and other children to line her own pockets. Stop Ellen from exploiting her friends and/or family to line her own pockets.
