Ballerina Farm
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Anonymous
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I’m late on this but I’ve just been reading about Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farm. She’s an influencer in Utah who went to Juilliard and has 8 children and is married to the son of the founder of Jet blue. They are Mormon. She competed in a beauty pageant a few weeks after giving birth to her 8th child. I first saw her on instagram and enjoyed her videos of making recipes entirely from scratch, but then got progressively more weirded out by some of her behavior on instagram. She’s interesting. I realize she has help but still, she does a ton. How??
https://www.reddit.com/r/UtahInfluencerDrama/comments/195ikw4/ballerina_farm_does_it_again_what_cant_she_show/ |
Anonymous
| She's super rich. Her father in law is the CEO of jet blue |
Anonymous
| I know of her because I love Utah influencer stuff of all kinds, but she is a little sad to me because what mom of so many kids is still into that beauty pageant stuff and spends so much time doing it? It's just not interesting and feels insecure (and why be insecure when you have such a good full life in every way?!) |
Anonymous
| Those Mormons are doing something right. |
Anonymous
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Sorry actually meant to post this nytimes link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/style/ballerina-farm-mrs-world-hannah-neeleman.html |
Anonymous
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Is her father Dwight Eisenhower?
Why can I not tell Mormons apart? |
Anonymous
| Wait like she did a beauty pageant or she took her kid to one? I guess actually I don’t care I’m a no on beauty pageants of all kinds. |
Anonymous
What an impossibly rude and ignorant post! |
Anonymous
So why post here at all? |
Anonymous
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background from wiki: The New York Times wrote that Ballerina Farm was "simultaneously one of the most popular social media stars in the country and a lightning rod for criticism."[2] Hannah Neeleman has been criticized for failing to publicly display the farm's hired employees and not acknowledging the family's financial privilege.[1][5] Viewers have speculated that the family is probably not living off the profits of the farm and have pointed out that their home's stove, which Hannah says she purchased used, retails for about $20,000 and their property was listed for $2.75 million when they purchased it in 2018.[6]
Daniel Neeleman posts on Instagram on the account @HogFathering.[7] The account did a sponsored post for FedEx that showed Hannah mailing the farm's meat to Hawaii so that the family could eat it on vacation.[2] |
Anonymous
| She has a ton of help. Multiple nannies, farm employees, and people running the business side of the brand. The shtick of a hardscrabble family pulling themselves up by their bootstraps sells product but it's not at all reality. Most of the meat and other items they sell are not actually produced on their farm. And yes, the husband's family bankrolls most of their lifestyle. It's fun and games now but it won't be when the kids are old enough to realize their parents pretended to homeschool them and dressed them up in flour sacks and bonnets to get attention on social media. |
Anonymous
| What is the appeal of this? I find this incredibly boring. |
Anonymous
I find it weirdly interesting. Do you think she’s secretly miserable? Incredibly happy? Smug and self satisfied? Do you think she wanted that many children or is just doing it because it’s what’s expected of her? They have oodles of money but live in a very bare farmhouse. Is it just for the aesthetic or are they actually committed to the lifestyle? |
Anonymous
| I find it’s interesting that her job is influencing other women not to work. It’s nothing new but still. |
Anonymous
[/b] I find the self-promotion to be weird and anti-christian but then mormons aren't christian (look it up before you react! I am right!) |