Ballerina Farm influencer Hannah Neeleman had a kitchen safety session with her daughters while making a meal.
“Lunch prep,” Neeleman, 34, captioned her Instagram Story video on Monday, December 30. In the clip, one of her daughters could be seen chopping garlic with what appeared to be a chef’s knife. After she was done, the little one used her finger to wipe the remaining food off the side of the blade.
A second video showed another one of Neeleman’s daughters using a serrated-edge knife to chop potatoes and place them in a large bowl. “Her favorite thing,” the influencer wrote. The next slide showed that she and the kids made a dish featuring “purple and red potatoes.”
Neeleman finished the mixture by pouring liquid over the top of the skillet. However, she never showcased the final meal.
The Instagram influencer, and founder of Ballerina Farm in Utah, is the mother of eight kids — three sons: Henry, 12, Charles, 10 and George, 9, and five daughters Frances, 7, Lois, 5, Martha, 3, Mabel, 2, and Flora, 11 months — whom she shares with husband Daniel Neeleman.
With over 10 million Instagram followers as of Tuesday, December 31, Neeleman and her family have made quite the impression on social media. The former Julliard ballerina went viral earlier this year when she competed in a beauty pageant two weeks after giving birth to Flora. (She was named Mrs. American in 2023 and competed for Mrs. World in Las Vegas nearly one year ago.)
“I had known it was coming,” she told U.K.’s The Times in an interview published this past July. “So, I had prepared.”
After she blew up on social media, Neeleman quickly became affiliated with a niche group of women online, known as the “trad wives.” Short for “traditional wives,” the moniker refers to women who essentially glorify an old-fashioned way of thinking when it comes to being a stay-at-home mom.
Neeleman, however, is not really on board with the title.
“I don’t necessarily identify with it,” she explained to The Times. “Because we are traditional in the sense that it’s a man and a woman, we have children, but I do feel like we’re paving a lot of paths that haven’t been paved before.”
She added, “For me to have the label of a traditional woman. I’m kinda, like, I don’t know if I identify with that.”
Fans who’ve read about the origins of Ballerina Farm might just agree with her because the brand is her brainchild.
“I wear many hats – mom, wife, cook, business owner, content creator, lover of God and all things butter,” the site reads. “For long time followers and those just joining the journey, I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you our story in my own words. My time before marriage, before kids, before I even dreamt of creating Ballerina Farm.”
