It's a huge feat for a girl from Springville, Utah (a small town outside Provo, very conservative), homeschooled with her 8 siblings, to get into Julliard. It's not a path people in her orbit were taking. It was painful to read her comments about ballet and what it meant to her to give it up. She names her social media the Ballerina Farmer. |
The BFA is the last thing she did before she got pregnant and stopped doing anything not kid and husband centric. Its a huge part of what she identifies with before she became a mom-wife-farmer. |
Disgusting to have 8 kids fend for themselves |
Someone on Reddit searched the property records where they live in Kamas, Utah. Her name isn't on the Deed to the house or surrounding property. How about that? Might we also speculate that the Neeleman family had an air-tight prenup drawn up? She finishes her last year at Juliard pregnant and gives up her professional dancing career to marry a rich boy and follow his dream of living on a farm. She reported that she couldn't wait to get to NYC at 17 to attend Juliard. She loved the energy of the City. And here she is at 35, raising and homeschooling 8 kids with no nanny on a farm in Kamas, Utah, that isn't even hers. Stories like this are why I am not raising my daughter in a religion built on patriarchy. |
She has homeschool teachers to homeschool the kids. |
Allegedly she is also not on the business filings - it’s just him listed on the records for Ballerina Farm |
That's sad. |
Naomi /Love Taza was from Utah and got into Julliard too. There are lot of mormons who take this path |
Clearly the early years were much different than her life now… nyc, england, brazil. Not sure she realized utah was the last stop on this adventure. Her world definitely seems a lot smaller now, but I don’t actually follow her story so what do I know. |
I don't get why people think she is a special case. The dancer to sahm route thing is VERY common, in and out of mormonism. Women typically do not stay successful ballerinas for that long, though there are exceptions. She married well financially. She may or may not be happy with a dh who could be a jerk, but she isn't some poor jailed creature with no agency. |
Late to this, but I own a social media agency that works with high-level influencers. And yea, it’s all fake. There’s massive amounts of money that go into creating a brand like BF. There’s always a wealthy dad who funded it. Many of them are former performers, whether dancers, actors, singers, etc.
People like to promote the image that they were just a regular person who started posting online and things took off, but there’s a ton of strategy and money behind it. Andrew Tate didn’t happen by accident, there was an intentional strategy to get him plastered across the internet that took a LOT of money. Anytime a pretty 22 year old girl who posts outfit or dance videos randomly gets reposted by celebrities and gets millions of followers, she paid to get those celebrity endorsements. The alpha males surrounded by beautiful women? Those women are paid to be there, they have zero interest in the guy. Everyone pretends to be WAY wealthier than they actually are. Loads of people buy fake followers/views/engagement (ever notice how troll comments always come from private profiles? They’re fake). Social media really needs to be treated the same way as TV. People need to recognize it’s fake. Hopefully there will be more legislation in the future, but probably not for 10-20 years. |
She issued a statement, obviously not crafted by her (it's too well written), basically saying she loves her life. Yeah right. She admitted in the Times article that she wanted city life.
I think she could have done so much better than a rich guy who fantasized about the icky pioneer life and set about recreating it. Raising 8 kids on a farm whose only access to schooling is a "teacher" who comes over is just sad to me. Bu |
This. +1 |
I believe everything you are saying, but who is making money off this? I get the ballerina farm with their millions and millions of followers might be making some money. But what about all the mommy influencers with like 100,000 or less followers. Constantly asking people to DM them a certain word for tips on recipes or time management or whatever. Any of them making money or at least good money? Seems like a MLM to me. When they pay for followers, etc., invest in the business, and then get nothing back. |
DP. There seems to be a subset of them that go into entertainment/sports to spread the message. The houghs and the Osmonds come to mind. I also had a friend in high school whose dad and uncle were in the NFL and whose aunt was a Dallas cowboys cheerleader. |