Proving popular with many teenage girls, its clear that Zoe has used social media sites to build up a strong fan base and support base. It just shows that you can start off literally as a normal person who is not really anybody, and with just a few steps in the right direction, you can become known by millions.
I have to say, Zoe happens to be my biggest inspiration and no matter what people say, it still doesn't shy away from the fact that she has become very successful and achieved many of her dreams. She is also, one of the reasons as to why I started this whole blogging scene, I mean when you see people gaining so much from it, It doesn't half make you want to do it.
Seeing as she has released her own beauty range and received over millions of subscribers its pretty obvious that she is doing extremely well, and therefore giving her a highly regraded reputation.
Most recently, Zoe released the first of 2 contracted books, breaking records and reaching over 78,000 sales within it's first week its clearly very popular. The book Girl Online: highlights some of her own life within the main character, anxiety attacks and blog writing, Many subscribers have backed the book and brought it as shown in the sales, and me being one who has bought it of course!
However, in a recent news paper article, it was suggested that the book was partly ghost written and was not all ideas from Zoe herself, leading to people saying they feel led down betrayed etc, etc.
I couldn't disagree more. I mean anyone who thinks someone with no experience of book writing can manage to come up with 344 pages worth of ideas is very muchly mistaken. In nowhere have I seen that Zoe had written the book entirely by herself, and also, even in the acknowledgments within the book, Zoe states 'thanks to everyone at Penguin for helping me put together my first novel', now this clearly shows that she has been given help to write it.
Now, it's fair to say that the whole situation has been completely blown out of proportion and it seems that subscribers are turning against their 'So called inspiration' and because of this, I think its perhaps safe to say that some people who say they love her are only there for the twitter following instead of being there to support her and help her achieve dreams.
Its really annoying to see that someone as lovely as Zoe feel like she has to come away from posting blogs and youtube video's in order to escape from all the 'hate' and controversy caused by this article. In my opinion she has done nothing wrong and is getting slated for simply just taking the help which was offered too her.
This probably isn't the only time someone has been accused of using a ghost writer and it probably won't be the last. Revelations such as this aren't arising when it comes to songs, I mean surely people such as one direction etc have had some input in writing lyrics, most singers out there aren't song writers, so whats the difference?
And the last point I want to make is that when people are saying that she couldn't have wrote the book because she hasn't had anytime to do so, erm excuse me but how do you know? She has uploaded video's stating that the past year she has been very busy and had many things planned to do, and she also mentioned that she started looking at writing a book at the beginning of the year, if not just before 2014, so its not like she has hidden anything, I mean she posts about half her life on the internet, so why would she shy away from the truth when it comes to her book.
So, personally, I think its completely wrong to criticize her and I think those who have questioned her book need to look at what she has said about the writing experience and the details behind it instead of jumping to conclusions and therefore almost forcing Zoe to take a break from it all.
Thankyou for reading todays post, I felt like I needed to say it because its annoying me, so I needed to get it onto some sort of site where people can see it! Anyway, just so you know Zoe, I'm backing you, ALL THE WAY!
Much love, with added hugs and bows,
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