Mamamia Out Loud25 Loka 2024

From Mia: The Trad Wife Life Of Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman

Outlouders, Mia has a little treat for you today about one of our Roman Empires... Trad Wives.

Trad Wives like Hannah Neeleman and her Ballerina Farm empire have captured our imagination - and divided our opinions. They're an Instagram phenomenon using highly-produced content to promote traditional family values - specifically, the idea that women would be happier if they stayed home and served their husbands and children, trading in a life of career-focused grind for a life of content domesticity - and nobody sells this idea better than Hannah.

Megan Agnew is a journalist for UK newspaper The Times. She managed to spend a day with Hannah, her husband Daniel and their eight children on the notoriously hard-to-penetrate Ballerina Farm. Megan saw behind the scenes but what she witnessed is very different to what we see on Instagram. Her article went viral and sparked a million think pieces and spurred some very strong reactions… including from the Neelemans themselves.

So, what is behind the Trad Wife movement? Is it just harmless entrepreneurship, or is there a darker, more serious ideology beneath the surface?

You can follow Megan Agnew here.

You can listen to our episode with Tia Levings who barely escaped her Trad Wife life, here.

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