This Trad Wife's Not-So-Perfect Life Was Exposed
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00:00This tradwife's perfect life is exposed in a new interview.
00:04The tradwives of TikTok are sparking outrage yet again.
00:06Tradwives, or traditional wives,
00:08is a trend among female creators
00:10that promotes a lifestyle glorifying conservative values
00:13and conventional gender roles.
00:14Tradwives believe women belong in the kitchen
00:17and not the workplace.
00:18Creators like Nara Smith have gone viral
00:20with their over-the-top deference to their husbands
00:23and complicated cooking from scratch.
00:24Here's everything I eat in a day
00:26as someone that loves to cook,
00:28but is also 37 weeks pregnant.
00:30I start off with some herbal tea
00:31and then take my prenatals.
00:33But none of the tradwives have been more controversial
00:35than Hannah Nealman,
00:36one of the most popular tradwife creators on TikTok.
00:39She shares her life as a devoted wife
00:41to her husband, Daniel,
00:42and a mother of eight living on a rural Utah homestead
00:45as Ballerina Farm on social media.
00:48Her TikTok account has more than 8 million followers.
00:51Who can't get enough of Hannah's idyllic farm life,
00:53where she's often seen milking cows
00:55and cooking meals from scratch.
00:57But people started to question Hannah's lifestyle
00:59after the 34-year-old gave an intimate glimpse
01:02into her so-called perfect life in a recent interview.
01:05Because to readers,
01:07her situation seems pretty far from perfect.
01:09Okay, that's my birthday present from Daniel.
01:13I'm holding their tickets to Greece.
01:15So, plane tickets?
01:17Oh, my egg apron!
01:20I made it.
01:23Great, now you can gather eggs.
01:25So cute.
01:25It's really cute.
01:26You're welcome.
01:28Thanks, honey.
01:29Before Ballerina Farm,
01:30Hannah was a professional dancer
01:31who studied ballet at the prestigious
01:34Juilliard School of Dance in New York City.
01:36Oh, fulfill her dream of dancing in New York?
01:38Hannah competed in beauty pageants
01:40with hopes of earning a scholarship.
01:42But everything changed after a rather unique first date
01:45with her now-husband, Daniel.
01:46After meeting her at a college basketball game,
01:48Daniel called upon his father,
01:50the founder of Airline JetBlue,
01:52to get the seat next to Hannah on a five-hour flight
01:54from Salt Lake City to New York.
01:56Despite still being an undergrad,
01:58she married Daniel just three months later.
02:00Fast forward to today,
02:01Hannah has traded her ballet shoes for work boots
02:04in order to build her and Daniel's dream homestead.
02:06She shares her daily tasks,
02:08like milking the dairy cows, shoveling manure,
02:11harvesting the crops she uses
02:12to feed her family of 10, and more.
02:14She brought her followers along
02:16as she stepped back into her gown and tiara
02:18to compete in the 2023 Mrs. American Pageant and won.
02:22She even returned to compete in the Mrs. World Pageant,
02:25pulling off the impossible,
02:27taking the stage a mere 12 days
02:29after giving birth to her daughter, Flora,
02:31breastfeeding her newborn backstage
02:32while wearing five-inch heels.
02:34Beagle, our soaring national symbol
02:37of resilience and majestic beauty.
02:40Once on the endangered species list,
02:42Americans have helped it regain its foothold
02:45as king of the skies.
02:47God bless America.
02:48In a new article with The Times,
02:50Hannah is the main focus of the interview.
02:52How does she do it all?
02:54And how much does her Mormon faith play a role
02:56in their rustic, wholesome lifestyle?
02:58But it's husband Daniel,
03:00an ever-present figure behind Hannah,
03:02who rephrases her answers to the writer's questions,
03:04who revealed himself as Ballerina Farm's mastermind.
03:08The Times article depicts Hannah
03:09as a cheerfully ignorant prisoner,
03:11overworked and underappreciated.
03:13She admits she never wanted to live
03:15the life of a homesteader, but her husband did.
03:17The Neelman's homeschool, their children,
03:19they don't have a television, they don't have iPads,
03:21and they don't use nannies.
03:23Per their faith, Hannah gave birth
03:25to nearly all of her kids at home,
03:27and without pain medication.
03:28Though she never complains, her husband says,
03:30Hannah sometimes becomes so ill from exhaustion
03:33that she stays in bed for a week.
03:34People are cringing at the contrast
03:36between the idyllic image
03:37portrayed on Ballerina Farm's TikTok
03:40and the brutally hard work it takes Hannah
03:42to make her family's life on the farm
03:44as pleasant as it looks.
03:46Many feel sorry for Hannah's sacrifice,
03:48noting that Juilliard's admittance rate
03:50is one of the lowest in the country,
03:51making her rare achievements as a young ballet dancer
03:54even more impressive.
03:56Worst of all, the dynamic between Hannah and Daniel
03:59has become tainted in the public's eyes.
04:01One video in particular shows Hannah opening
04:03a birthday present from her husband
04:05that left both Hannah and her millions of fans
04:08incredibly disappointed.
04:09As a fan of Ballerina Farm's, it's the egg apron.
04:13It's the unwrapped gift.
04:15It is the lack of effort put forth
04:18that solidified the end of my marriage.
04:22The trend of internet trad wife influencers
04:24seem to emerge in response to the popular feminist
04:26girl boss stereotypes of the 2010s.
04:29Not too long ago, young women were being primed
04:31to lean in to the world of career climbing,
04:34to break the glass ceiling in industries
04:36that have been long dominated by men.
04:38While some still consider Hannah's life on Ballerina Farm
04:41as the American dream,
04:42others are waking up to the idea
04:43that she's merely a trophy wife
04:45who gave up everything to honor her husband and her faith.
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