Who is Hannah Neeleman, the controversial “queen” of tradwives?

In a rural town hidden among the mountains of Utah, lives Hannah Neeleman a 34-year-old woman who once dreamed of becoming a famous dancer and touring the stages of New York. Away from the spotlight, the woman now wakes up to the sunshine of a clear sky on her farm, the home where she raises her eight children.

But because she is on the ground, she is not far from the public eye and the tabloids. The young woman – who shows what her life is like on Instagram and TikTok – was crowned with the social networks as the “queen” of professional woman , a trend in which women are rejecting modern gender roles and opting for a more conservative and traditional role.

They prefer to be Housewives , wives devoted to their partners and mothers above their professional career.

This course is the one Hannah would have chosen. In a controversial interview with the media The temperature The young woman revealed that She gave up her dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer after meeting David Neeleman, her current husband.

Although she didn’t want to get married so soon, as she wanted to finish her studies at the prestigious Juilliard Academy, David insisted and, three months after they began their relationship, the bells rang.

The conversation the couple had with him Times It has been widely commented on on social media. And even the same interviewer, Megan Agnew Do not touch Daniel the husband, repeatedly interrupted Hannah or vouched for her.

This is an excerpt from the controversial moments of the dialogue with the queen of the tradwife.

Hannah and David Neelman are devout Mormons and have eight children. : Henry (12 years old), Charles (10 years old), George (9 years old), Frances (7 years old), Louis (5 years old), Martha (3 years old), Mabel (2 years old) and baby Flora.

They live on a 300-acre farm in a small town called Kamas, in the state of Utah, USA. There, they have animals and crops that they use for their own livelihood, but also to sell.

And Hannah is the one who usually does most of the work.

But he knew how to monetize it: The young woman created her account on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube under the name Ballerinas Farm where he shows how he treats cows and even how his deliveries took place at home and without anesthesia.

Her popularity skyrocketed after she entered a beauty pageant 12 days after giving birth to her eighth daughter. In addition to the efforts she was already making for the pregnancy, she put in three times more effort to maintain a fit body and become the new Miss World in Las Vegas.

I did not know that She had also earned the title of queen of tradwives or “traditional wives” on social networks. Although Hannah does not consider herself as such, this Internet movement has appropriated her figure and, from now on, she is recognized as the most famous tradwife on the Internet.

“I don’t necessarily identify with that. because we are traditional in the sense that we are a man and a woman who have children, but I feel like we’re breaking new ground that hasn’t been paved before.” He said to the TimesAnd by showing how a “traditional wife” lives, has created a kind of well-paid influencer profession.

While Hannah’s dream was to become a dancer and live in New York, Daniel’s was to live in the Wild West and devote himself to farming. Their aspirations were fulfilled, according to journalist Agnew who interviewed them.

As the journalist pointed out, When she speaks, Daniel usually interrupts and corrects what she says. Sometimes even older children talk about their mother.

In the house, there is no television, no tablet and even less a phone for the children. Sometimes, on the computer they have, they watch Little House on the Prairie. Daniel does not want them to hire a babysitter at home, so His wife takes care of all the cooking and parenting.

Hannah has to go shopping and chooses to cook everything from scratch, like bread and pasta. They never eat prepared meals. They have a cleaner and Daniel does the laundry.

But the woman has so much to do that, according to her husband, “Sometimes he gets so sick from exhaustion that he can’t get out of bed for a week.” According to what she herself has stated on her networks, she does not like to take medication and prefers homeopathic and natural medicine. This has led her to have conflicts with users who interact with her account.

The journalist asked them their position on abortion: “The Church is against ‘I’m going to abort because I’m not happy about being pregnant,’” Daniel replied. “We see the joy of having children, it’s the sanctity of life.”

“And would they see that as a sin?” the interviewer replied. “Yeah. “You need Jesus,” the man replied.

“I can’t get a response from Hannah without her husband or children correcting her, interrupting her, or responding.” (…) I was faced with an army of little children who love their mother and a husband who thinks he knows best,” the interviewer said in the note she published in The temperature.

Regarding the criticism she received for being a businesswoman and leading a more conservative life, Hannah responded that “Daniel is very good at this, he says I can’t trust what people say or what titles people give me. You just have to live life and put that aside, otherwise it will overtake you.