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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
I'm a tradhusband... I cater to my rich wife's every need at home
A couple has revealed how a life-changing event 'forced' them to change the stereotypical roles in their relationship - and why they love it. Utah-based Sharon and Kerry Johnson, both 39, share six kids aged 15, 13, 12, 10, eight, and six, with Sharon previously assuming the role of stay-at-home mom while Kerry worked full time. However, after Kerry lost his job as a health administrator, they switched roles; with Sharon now the breadwinner and working as a full-time content creator, and Kerry a stay-at-home dad or he refers to himself - the 'tradhusband.' The change was even more unique as the pair grew up in Mormon households, where typically, the wife stays at home to bring up the kids and take care of the household and the husband goes to work. Whilst it's not what Kerry grew up with - he loves his new life. 'I love being called a tradwife or tradhusband – it's a badge I wear with complete pride,' the father-of-six gushed to What's The Jam recently. 'It's such a rare thing in the circles we run in and it's been such a positive change for our family,' he continued. 'I can't imagine seeing it in a negative way.' Reflecting on what life was like before, Karry admitted most days were 'tremendously stressful,' and he was 'pretty dissatisfied' with the amount of time he was spending away from home. 'I felt very disconnected from my wife and kids and that created a lot of tension,' he explained. Kerry said there was pressure added because he didn't feel like he could 'willingly leave' the job that was bringing in the money to feed my family. 'So I was very unhappy overall,' he explained. It wasn't until Kerry's company laid him off, along with a number of workers, that the couple considered changing up their roles. 'This was not the first lay-off I had been part of and each time presented us with the reality that we enjoyed having me home more,' he explained. Kerry explained being laid-off again made him and Sharon question whether they should continue the 'traditional route' - which meant him finding another job - or if Sharon should start working instead. By this point, Sharon was earning enough money to support them through content creation through her social media accounts, and they were both eager to try it. 'It's had its difficult moments, but I enjoy this much more than the work I was doing,' Kerry said enthusiastically. The change was even more unique as the pair grew up in Mormon households, where typically, the wife stays at home to bring up the kids and the husband goes to work 'I don't feel any less masculine for the change – quite the opposite, actually,' he said assuredly. 'The idea that I can help my family in whatever way they might need is quite powerful.' He added that Sharon has been given a 'strong sense of independence and reality, which can very much get buried with women' - especially in the Mormon religion, which the family is no longer apart of. '[Her job] takes her away from the family more, but the time she has with the kids seems to be higher quality time,' Kerry pointed out. Sharon and Kerry have grown to feel more like a team in this transition, and while they've faced some backlash from people in their community, they don't regret it one bit. 'I enjoy that our kids have an example of a strong, independent woman providing for them,' he gushed. 'And the perspective we've gained has been great.' He said they have both come to appreciate what how much work they each do. 'If you are operating in the traditional sense, if making the switch is half as positive as the change has been for us, then it's absolutely worth it,' he declared. 'I love being a tradhusband,' he enthused. 'We've broken that norm and it's going better than we could have imagined.'
TechCrunch
2 days ago
- General
- TechCrunch
Coop is a smart chicken coop for beginners
It could be the rise of the trad wife or maybe self-reliance is just having a moment. Either way, it seems like Coop, the smart chicken coop company, is right on time. This high-tech coop is for people who don't have space for a whole farm. It has cameras, automatic door openers, rogue egg detection, and of course an app to keep the urban farmer up to date.
The Sun
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Win a copy of The Tradwife's Secret by Liane Child in this week's Fabulous book competition
TAPPING into the tradwife hashtag, this page-turner looks at the trend's dark side. Madison March lives in Montana, baking bread and living a seemingly perfect life with her adorable kids, while her husband Michael provides for them. But then what really happens behind the filters is revealed, and Madison goes viral for all the wrong reasons. 10 lucky Fabulous readers will win a copy of this new novel in this week's book competition. To win a copy, enter using the form below by 11:59pm on June 7, 2025. For full terms and conditions, click here.
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The TRUTH about Ballerina Farm... and what it's really like behind the scenes
Hannah Neeleman, known to her nearly 20 million followers by Ballerina Farm, perhaps became the most famous 'tradwife' in the world after a Sunday Times interview controversially labeled her the 'most well-known' of this particular brand of influencers. The social media star and entrepreneur lives on a 328-acre farm in Kamas, Utah, with her husband, Jet Blue scion Daniel, 35, and their eight children, showing their everyday life online to their large collective following. Raised in a large Mormon family in Utah, Hannah was the eighth of nine children. Though she trained as a ballerina at Julliard, hence the name, she gave up dancing professionally shortly after graduation, instead choosing to pursue a family and farming. Online, Hannah is primarily known for her aesthetically pleasing videos in the kitchen, where she whips up elaborate, homemade meals for her family. She shows followers how she makes herbed spaghetti, mixing the flour and egg by hand and then stretching it in her KitchenAid pasta attachment, or making raspberry jam from scratch. As their farm has grown, the Neelemans have built a booming business around their brand, selling everything from $67 Farmer Protein Powder to $44 sourdough kits, and various homemade spreads and seasonings. Customers can also buy frozen goods, like chocolate croissants, as well as cuts of meat, which comes from their farm and their sister farms throughout the US. They have their own meat processing facility in Springville, Utah. Neeleman's videos are captivating to her audience, to put it lightly. The idyllic life she portrays through her content seems to elicit an awed reaction from many, while others watch through a critical lens, unable to look away. Last year, the family weathered a media storm after the piece published in The Times of London titled, 'Meet the queen of the 'trad wives' (and her eight children).' The story highlighted certain complexities of Hannah's lifestyle, painting a particular picture about her relationship with her husband, parenting, her Mormon faith, and her career as a professional dancer. The writer implied Hannah was living a life that she didn't enjoy, or worse - one that she didn't choose. For her part, Hannah addressed the controversy afterward, telling viewers she felt like the piece was an 'attack on her family.' She claimed that it portrayed her as 'oppressed,' with her husband being the 'culprit.' She'd already refuted the 'tradwife' title, telling The Times she didn't 'identify with it' because although she is married and has children, she feels like she and Daniel are 'paving a lot of paths that haven't been paved before.' The Daily Mail visited Ballerina Farm in Utah - where we saw for ourselves what it's really like on the TikTok-famous farm. To perhaps the surprise of some viewers, and especially their most outspoken critics, the Neelemans are running a full-fledged business empire - and there's a lot more than meets the eye to both the brand and the couple themselves. During the Daily Mail's time in Utah, we traveled to the couple's new brick-and-mortar market, and had the opportunity to go on a private tour of their farm, led by Hannah and Jonathan Curley, their director of agriculture. The farm, which is nestled right in the Utah mountains, is vast and houses a red barn emblazoned with 'Ballerina Farm.' The sprawling land is home to 120 dairy cows and 150 cows total, who go out to pasture as often as they want and are milked whenever feels necessary - sometimes by hand, and sometimes by the couple's contact-sensing Lely robot. Jonathan and the Neelemans work as a team when it comes to the dairy. According to Hannah, a nutritionist comes in for the cows once a month, and tells the couple what to add to the cow's diets for the creamiest milk possible. Recently, it's been cotton seed. The farm was surprisingly quiet too, as Hannah and Jonathan explained that this is how a dairy should be. We learned that cows that moo are actually in need of something, and it's better to have a calm dairy. 'Daniel and I and the Ballerina Farm team, we do nothing halfway,' Hannah told the Daily Mail, after feeding us farm-fresh butter, fresh-baked croissants, which tasted like they were from a bakery in Paris, and a homemade orange seltzer. Lunch was a delightful mix of Ballerina Farm beef kofta with olives, pickled red onions and tossed parsley, as well as sugar snap peas and ricotta, salad, and glazed carrots and hummus. The farm was surprisingly quiet too, as Hannah and Jonathan explained that this is how a dairy should be The sprawling land is home to 120 dairy cows and 150 cows total, who go out to pasture as often as they want and are milked whenever feels necessary - sometimes by hand, and sometimes by the couple's contact-sensing Lely robot We were treated to an array of delicious food while we were on the farm, including a homemade orange seltzer 'We really try to provide products that are sourced in a way that's beautiful and direct and also, we want to be able to offer people delicious food,' she continued. 'I think people will think what they want to think, I guess, but when they come to our stores, our physical spaces, we want them to feel that love and intention.' Despite Ballerina Farm's booming success, one product continues to spark controversy - the raw milk they sell that has not been pasteurized to kill harmful bacteria. The polarizing product has stirred debate online, with heated discussions often playing out in the comments of Hannah's videos. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, consuming raw milk, which has become a trendy product among influencers and celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, can lead to 'serious health risks.' Despite the health risks, Hannah defends the sale of Ballerina Farm's raw milk, which the farm says is tested every day. 'There are so many benefits to raw milk nutritionally,' she told the Daily Mail, adding: 'But it does need to be produced in a very clean environment, and the cows need to be clean, and you have to make sure that every step of the way is just monitored.' 'We have an amazing team that's, like, so meticulous… so it's really fun being able to stand with total confidence behind the milk, and people are excited about it,' she added. However, Hannah did share that she feels a lot of milk today 'still needs to be pasteurized.' 'We have an amazing team that's, like, so meticulous… so it's really fun being able to stand with total confidence behind the milk, and people are excited about it,' she added 'I feel like if you're able to find farms that are local and small, and have good procedures, then I stand by raw, I think it's so great. But honestly, we love all milk. If we're out and about and we can only get pasteurized, like, we definitely drink it,' she shared. Last summer, Cleveland Clinic warned about the health risks that come along with drinking raw milk, such as salmonella, and Listeria monocytogenes. In addition, it can also put you at risk for avian flu, which has been on the rise over the past year. Though, not everything they sell is raw. Their team pasteurizes some of their other milk products, like their chocolate milk, as well as their yogurt, butter, and cheese. 'When we started farming, it was a whole new energy in life that we found, because there is something so beautiful about raising your own food,' Hannah said. 'The energy and passion comes from what we do.' Hannah explained that when she and Daniel first got married, just months after they began dating, she could tell that his heart was in agriculture. 'When we first got married, I really could tell that his love was with animals. It was every weekend or every night that he had off, he was going to tour a farm, or meet with farmers,' Hannah described to the Daily Mail of her husband. 'He learns a lot from farmers and from people we met along the way. That was the highlight of our trips to Europe, and to Maine, just meeting the people that are growing their own food and how they're doing it,' she continued. When they bought their first farm in Spanish Fork, Utah, which tragically burned down in 2018, Hannah said that the farmer they purchased it from 'really took Daniel under his wing,' teaching him about irrigation, building fences, and the health of the animals. 'He learns a lot from farmers and from people we met along the way. That was the highlight of our trips to Europe, and to Maine, just meeting the people that are growing their own food and how they're doing it,' she continued Upon returning from our trip to Utah, it was clear Ballerina Farm is not just a frilly 'tradwife' business, or just operating under a TikTok bubble strictly limited to her aesthetically-pleasing content - it's a real business entity, and a brand that the family has big plans for 'There have just been so many people in our lives that have taught us, and we're always learning too, we love traveling and going to farms, because in a way, they're life-changing, every farm visit,' Hannah said. As for the future of Ballerina Farm? The couple has big dreams. In the next few years, Hannah and Daniel want to open an agricultural tourism site on their farm, where visitors can experience a microdairy, chickens, a market garden, and farm stand. They also have plans to build out a creamery. 'We just want to be able to give our community part of Ballerina Farm in a way that's really thought-out and beneficial, educating,' Hannah shared. Now, the couple are expanding their business to their first brick-and-mortar storefront in Midway, set to open this June. Daily Mail got a sneak preview of the store, which was stocked with all of their own products, including their meat, as well as a curated selection of items that they love. In addition to buying groceries, you can also buy fresh-baked goods and sandwiches. Upon returning from our trip to Utah, it was clear Ballerina Farm is not just a frilly 'tradwife' business, or just operating under a TikTok bubble strictly limited to her aesthetically-pleasing content - it's a real business entity, and a brand that the family has big plans for. Although Daniel's family is worth an estimated $400 million, the couple appears to be self-sufficient, just as they've always dreamed - though the brand declined to disclose sales numbers to the Daily Mail. As for Hannah, we didn't see a woman who is oppressed, but rather a serious entrepreneur. With such a huge following, controversy and the occasional backlash is inevitable, but it's clear Ballerina Farm will be just fine either way.
Daily Mail
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Tradwife influencer Nara Smith SLAMMED for 'glamorizing' teen pregnancies
Popular 'tradwife' influencer Nara Smith has been slammed for glamorizing teen pregnancy after posting a controversial TikTok. The 23-year-old, who shares three children with husband Lucky Blue, posted a video celebrating being a young mom, which concerned followers who accused her of encouraging other women to have children at a young age. The clip, which showed her hugging her young child in a paddock, was captioned: 'POV: You decided to have kids at 18 and this is your fifth Mother's Day.' Nara rose to fame through TikTok, where she flaunts her 'tradwife' (traditional housewife) lifestyle, baking extravagant meals for her family while seeming to effortlessly care for her young children. While her social media shows a lavish lifestyle, where she wears designer clothing in a beautiful home, many have pointed out very few teen moms can afford the same lifestyle. 'Nara please don't glamorize this. Happy for you but your life at 18 is not most teens realities…,' one response read. 'Reminder to all the 18-year-olds, you do not have Nara Smith money,' read another. 'Girlies at 18 you don't have Nara Smith money so this ain't your sign,' someone else shared. 'No. DO NOT GET INFLUENCED PLEASE. Finish your college. Get a job. Become financially stable,' agreed another. In a Reddit thread, users delved into why the influencer, who is Mormon, is heavily advocating for the controversial take. '[Nara] is 100 percent serious on how she thinks this is easy and achievable,' one user wrote on a thread. 'No idea about the teen pregnancy stuff but they should be unfollowing her for pushing trad wife aesthetics. It's like Andrew Tate for Gen Z girls and we're falling hard and fast into mass conservatism,' chimed in another. Someone else agreed, writing: 'Especially when the couple are Mormons, there's definitely an underlying agenda to all this — hell, find me a tradwife influencer who ISN'T a Mormon or fundamentalist Christian.' They continued: 'And the problem is she's promoting such a glamorized fantasy that just isn't within reach for 99 percent of people if they got married and started popping out kids at eighteen, all on one income.' 'Her own social media income avoids the all too common scenario of being trapped in a loveless or even abusive marriage, or left destitute with her kids after her husband sets his eyes on that pretty young secretary, takes the house, and weasels himself out of child support or alimony,' they pointed out. has reached out to Nara for further comment. Tradwives are a trending topic on social media that showcases women who sport 1950s style clothing while embracing traditional gender roles. Last year, the South African star told Harper's Bazaar that she has had 'a really hard time' digesting the concept of the 'the trad wife, whatever it is,' defending her lifestyle. 'People are seeing her gaining some success from everything she's doing,' Lucky said. 'If you have someone who doesn't know you at all and they're making a video about you online with things that are not true, you can just tell it's coming from a place of jealousy. Let's call it what it is.' Smith has been married to fellow model Lucky Blue Smith, 26, since February of 2020, and the couple are parents to three children: daughter Rumble Honey, three, son Slim Easy, two, and daughter Whimsy Lou Smith, four months. Smith is also stepmother to her husband's daughter Gravity, seven, from his previous relationship to model Stormi Bree.
