Ballerina Farm: Quitting school to marry a billionaire's child, now disillusioned after 8 births

For those who like to watch videos about rural life on social media, Hannah Neeleman (better known as Ballerina Farm, born in 1990, American) is not a strange character.

She was impressed by the image of a family woman, at home taking care of the farm, making cakes and having small children around.

Currently, Hannah's Instagram account has 9.2 million followers, which are 8.3 million and 1.6 million on TikTok and YouTube, respectively. Counting all social media platforms in total, Hannah Neeleman has nearly 20 million followers, partly showing her popularity globally.

However, recently, the marriage of Hannah Neeleman and her husband - Daniel Neeleman has become a topic of controversy. The keyword "Ballerina Farm" and many related phrases have also become popular keywords on social media.

The flash love story of an art student and a billionaire's son

It all comes from an interview about the love and marriage journey of Hannah and her husband with The Times, published on July 20.

Hannah and Daniel met when they were both students. At that time, Hannah was studying at The Juilliard School - one of the most prestigious private conservatories in the United States and dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. As for Daniel Neeleman, he is the son of billionaire David Neeleman - the founder of JetBlue airline. Fascinated by Hannah at first sight, Daniel tries to flirt but is rejected.

Daniel then learned that Hannah would fly from Salt Lake City (Utah, USA) - the home of the two to New York (USA) on a JetBlue flight. Taking advantage of the position of the young master, Daniel arranged to sit next to the crush.

From the flight, the couple's love story developed rapidly. Just 2 months later, Hannah and Daniel got married. Although Hannah said that she wanted to date for about a year before moving back to the same house and this was also the time for her to finish her studies. However, Daniel disagrees and insists: "We must get married now."

About 3 months later, Hannah became pregnant with her first child. This good news caused her to drop out of her studies and become "the first Juilliard student to become pregnant in modern history". Since then, Hannah has been attached to the life of a wife and mother on a 328-acre (nearly 7,400m2) farm in Utah.

Currently, Hannah has 8 children, the oldest is 12 years old and the youngest is only 6 months old. Not only doing housework, taking care of children,... she also created content and gradually became famous on social media. In addition, she also sells agricultural products from her family's farm and helps her husband manage farm work.

Unveiling the curtain of married life behind the clips of millions of views

Like many other video channels about rural life, Hannah's clip is highly aesthetic but no less realistic. She often wears lightly flared dresses, cooking from ingredients from the backyard garden or in the barn, everything is self-sufficient.

Although she is married to a billionaire son, has a farm, has tens of millions of followers, and has a business,... but Hannah's life was quite hard. According to the interview, she had to do everything by herself with 8 children, without a maid to support her because her husband did not want strangers in the house. Although Daniel also helps with housework, sometimes Hannah is so sick from exhaustion that she can't get out of bed for a week.

In addition, Hannah's wishes were not met by her husband. On her birthday, she wanted a plane ticket to Greece but instead of giving her this gift, Daniel gave her an apron. Or when Hannah also wanted to turn a small barn on the farm into her own dance studio, now it is a classroom for her children.

In the interview, when asked about the tradwife label (short for "traditional wife") that she is being assigned by netizens, Hannah said: "We are traditional in the sense of a man - a woman and have children together. But I feel that we are opening up many new paths, which have never been experienced before. So with the label 'tradwife', I have similarities, but I don't know if I identify with that concept."

From this series of sharing, the author of the article describes the owner of Ballerina Farm as a person trapped in the world of marriage, where there is only the dream of the husband and the wife only follows because the husband wants without his own freedom.

After the interview was posted, netizens left a lot of mixed and controversial opinions about the marriage of Hannah - Daniel. The wave did not stop in the United States but also became a topic of discussion in many places, including Vietnam.

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