Ballerina Farm

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don't understand why they posted that birthday video. It's so sad to watch, I hated it. How did they think people would respond? It's like so bad it almost feels scripted to make a point or something. A Ukrainian egg apron when she wanted a trip to Greece??

The bday video was planned bc she edited it before posting it. She could have edited out her preliminary statement that she wanted tickets to Greece and just showed the apron…or not posted it at all.

Right that's the part I don't understand. She posted that intentionally, why?!

a cry for help. As someone who has followed them for a long time she has ALWAYS made questionable sad comments. Before they were famous she had a blog and said he was happy she lost the world pageant she was in.

In the interview, husband claimed she extends herself so much she spends a week in bed. That is definitely a cry for help and she likely has severe depression to do that. What family support would encourage her to continue working like that if it truly resulted in a week in bed sometimes? And if this happens, then it proves that they have extensive help if she's able to shut out the world for a week at a time.

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The part that did it for me was when she admitted that she had an epidural for the one birth where the husband wasn't present and that it was great. How sick. She is a willing captive, like many of these Mormon wives. They are brainwashed from a young age to accept this lifestyle (total obedience to a husband) and they don't know any different. I think it is cruel that her parents allowed her to go to NYC and get a taste of the real world if she was going to be encouraged to settle down like a good mormon girl.

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don't understand why they posted that birthday video. It's so sad to watch, I hated it. How did they think people would respond? It's like so bad it almost feels scripted to make a point or something. A Ukrainian egg apron when she wanted a trip to Greece??

It's a joke! They are making content

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I didn't know who this woman was before the Times article. Having read it, looked through her feed, and now read through this thread, what I'm struck by is the certainty of those posters here who think she's a victim issuing desperate passive-aggressive cries for help, OR a victim who can't admit to herself that she's miserable.

How on earth do y'all square this with the fact that she also apparently is a very savvy self-promoter who created an incredibly lucrative social media presence?

Her lifestyle is bizarre to me, but if you're criticizing it as a product of sexist patriarchal fantasy, maybe look in the mirror, because it doesn't get more sexist or patriarchal than to say that a woman who's achieved this level of fame and financial success ACTUALLY is secretly miserable and desperately needs our help, even if she won't admit to herself that she wants to be rescued from the life she says she loves.

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Anonymous wrote:So she’s up at 6, no nanny and does her job when the kids are in bed and goes to sleep around 1 am (I listened to the podcast). This is why she’s in bed sometimes for a week.

I get the trad wife appeal….although she’s a working mom. Being a typical working mom feels impossible most of the time. Hence the appeal of “traditional” roles. But I’d wager that my middle class life and 35 hour per week jobs affords me significantly more leisure time.

I read a lot of Reddit influencer gossip, and she does have nannies and lots of help. This is all for show.

I noticed the reporter said "he doesn't want nannies in the home, so there are none" rather than "doesn't want nannies" - sounds like they're not live-in? Plus the kids were being "homeschooled" elsewhere on the property by someone who doesn't actually live in the home. The image they're projecting is clearly just that: I mean they have 3 employees just to deal with their media images.

I agree with the people who say the reporter clearly had an angle, but I'm not sure that absolves this guy of being a piece of work or means she's happy or fulfilled.

Well, they did a hideous job of lining up othis family to interview with the very liberal LA Times. Anyone in PR could have predicted have this would come out. And what's worse - every publication is riffing off of the Times piece. Google Ballerina Farm: the story is everywhere: Axios, Forbes, Tiktok, X, Reddit, Glamour, Vanity Fair, NY Post, etc. This is a PR disaster

The article was not published by the LA Times. I don’t think you read it.

The Times. Point is the same. Sometimes scrolling on a phone makes getting back to the letterhead difficult but, yes, I read every word. Thank you for your kind comments.

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don't understand why they posted that birthday video. It's so sad to watch, I hated it. How did they think people would respond? It's like so bad it almost feels scripted to make a point or something. A Ukrainian egg apron when she wanted a trip to Greece??

It's a joke! They are making content

It's not a joke. Go watch it.

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TLDR even for Mormons this is bizarre. It seems like some kind of pioneer cosplay. It's totally self-induced hardship.

I agree with this, but still it doesn't mean she isn't happy. She has the ability to leave, and often spends time with her mom. I wouldn't love that lifestyle, but I'm sure she would be unhappy living my life as well.

Right, because that would be a very simple matter, what with the kids, the money, the property, etc. Right?

and the social ostracism of leaving a husband in the Mormon church. She is sealed to him "for now and eternity". Potential loss of family and friends. The loss of a temple recommend. Possible excommunication. The next life spent not in the Celestial
Kingdom but in outer darkness. The list goes on.

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I also didn’t know who this was and just watched the birthday video. That was so sad.

Then I watched a few vids of her making homemade food. Wow. I feel like I’m watching my great great great grandmother at home on the prairie. This lady knows it’s not 1880 right?

I have mad respect for anyone who can cook meals like that with eight kids hanging around. She must have patience for days.

She’s really gorgeous too. It’s weird to see someone with that much natural beauty choose to be stuck in a house cooking and working on a farm.

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don't understand why they posted that birthday video. It's so sad to watch, I hated it. How did they think people would respond? It's like so bad it almost feels scripted to make a point or something. A Ukrainian egg apron when she wanted a trip to Greece??

It's a joke! They are making content

It's not a joke. Go watch it.

I agree. She seemed disappointed (as anyone would be). His “you’re welcome” when she hadn’t even said thank you was obnoxious. I legit felt sad for her after watching and I don’t even know these people.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how it’s now a job to convince women that they can make homemaking their job. But no paycheck for those that buy in.

If it’s so wonderful, why is she taking to her bed for a week like the woman in The Yellow Wallpaper.

The detail about going to bed for a week is bizarre and sad as heck but tracks with other Mormon women I've known, in that they appear almost too perfect but then will come down with an illness that will take them out for a while. It happened so often to my friends and their relatives that I began to think it was stress-related. I just think the cultural expectations are impossible for them.

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This is for money and attention. It’s entertainments and for advertising.

It’s for her 15 minutes of fame.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how it’s now a job to convince women that they can make homemaking their job. But no paycheck for those that buy in.

If it’s so wonderful, why is she taking to her bed for a week like the woman in The Yellow Wallpaper.

The detail about going to bed for a week is bizarre and sad as heck but tracks with other Mormon women I've known, in that they appear almost too perfect but then will come down with an illness that will take them out for a while. It happened so often to my friends and their relatives that I began to think it was stress-related. I just think the cultural expectations are impossible for them.

From experience I agree. Appearance is everything in the Mormanism community. In fact a lot of religious communities are like that.
I know a few families where the women have been indoctrinated from a young age to be righteous as possible not for themselves, but for their husbands and future kids. These are teens and young adults my dd's age. It's sad.

I am somewhat religious but I am a stronger believer some teachings and the way they're taught can be detrimental to a person's agency. In this case it's almost impossible to tell if she's truly okay with he situation because of her upbringing. In that sense she is stuck. Deep down being on that farm and being trad wife is not what she wants.

https://wetookthetrain.blogspot.com/2013/01/here-she-is-miss-america.html?m=1#comment-form this is their old blog. [ b] ^^^after miss ny 2011, daniel was so happy i didn't win. [/b]he brought my engagement ring with him.

It's telling.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know who this woman was before the Times article. Having read it, looked through her feed, and now read through this thread, what I'm struck by is the certainty of those posters here who think she's a victim issuing desperate passive-aggressive cries for help, OR a victim who can't admit to herself that she's miserable.

How on earth do y'all square this with the fact that she also apparently is a very savvy self-promoter who created an incredibly lucrative social media presence?

Her lifestyle is bizarre to me, but if you're criticizing it as a product of sexist patriarchal fantasy, maybe look in the mirror, because it doesn't get more sexist or patriarchal than to say that a woman who's achieved this level of fame and financial success ACTUALLY is secretly miserable and desperately needs our help, even if she won't admit to herself that she wants to be rescued from the life she says she loves.

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The birthday video is a bit! Come on.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I think they're like free range kids, but I can't believe none have them have gotten hurt. They ride motorcycles and do all sorts of stuff with no supervision.

Most LDS influencers are like that, really reckless with their kids.

+1. The latest IG had a bunch of kids including a toddler jumping on a trampoline with no net in the middle of a field. With a cow in close proximity.

Y'all need to get out more. Lotta kids all over this country have a trampoline with no net. And, a cow - what's it gonna do nibble them? Cows aren't dangerous in the slightest. Unless it's a bull, but those kids know that.

Cows kill more people a year than sharks.