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‘Ballerina Farm’ Content Creator At Center Of Furor Over ‘Trad Wife’ Phenomenon

A revealing profile on the popular ‘Ballerina Farm’ account has put the spotlight on TikTok’s ‘trad wife’ trend—and the well-connected family that inadvertently started it.

She was among the latest to glorify a throwback lifestyle and praise a return to traditional gender values, but The Times suggests she was duped into marriage, pregnancy and abandoning her dreams to be a big-city dancer by her well-off husband, whose father founded the JetBlue airline. The biggest trad wife accounts include Ballerina Farm, Nara Smith(famous for making everything from sunscreen to bubblegum from scratch) and Estee Williams, who has posted videos about women's "biblical submission" to men. Calculating views, video length, algorithm and the TikTok creator fund, somehave speculated stars like Nara Smith and Hannah Neeleson make hundreds of thousands of dollars per month via their ultra popular content—not including sponsored posts.

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