You've Come a Long Way, Baby! Oh wait. No you haven't. You're going backwards.

Trad wives are taking over the internet.

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If you’ve spent any time on social media over the last week or so, you’ve probably heard about Ballerina Farm.

Ballerina Farm is the name of the brand that’s run by Hannah Neeleman. The name makes sense when you know Hannah’s story. She once had a spot at Julliard to study ballet, but then she met a multi-millionaire’s son and he moved her to a farm in the middle of nowhere where she could birth 8 babies (and counting probably) without pain meds, milk cows, and make him dinner from scratch.

A reporter from The Times spent a day with Hannah and her husband, Daniel, at their 300+ acre farm in remote Utah. The story Megan Agnew wrote about them, introduced a lot of people to “Trad Wives” and has gone viral—dividing the internet.

I heard about Ballerina Farm a year or so ago when the rise of the “Trad Wife” was just starting to get some notice. Now it’s a full-blown THING. And it’s the most irritating thing I’ve seen in a long time.