Why is Everyone Mad About Ballerina Farm Now?
glamour.comFor the obsessively and chronically online, or those who make a career out of dissecting every inch of the modern female experience and doing so through the curated social media profiles of influencers, merely whispering of Ballerina Farm, a.k.a.
Hannah Neeleman, produces a variety of conspiracy theories, opinions, and rhetoric.To them, Neeleman—a beautiful, Juilliard-trained, Mormon mother of seven children who lives on a ranch in Utah and chronicles her experiences on social media to an audience of millions—has for several years represented the pinnacle of the unrealistic expectations placed on American mothers.These women, many mothers themselves, watch Neeleman’s Instagram Stories of herself delivering her babies near a hearth, without drugs and surrounded by her loving brood, and feel attacked by their own, less idyllic birthing experiences.
They stare at her lithe dancer’s body, her perfectly proportioned face and wide smile, and cry foul that any woman could pretend that looking that good after so many babies is easy.
They pick apart her clothes, her home, and her meals that she makes from scratch. They insist she must have a secret army of nannies at her disposal, that she is faking most of her life for content.Over the past few years, a prevailing narrative has emerged.
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