March 9, 2026

Ballerina Farm Is in the Feminist Crosshairs Once Again

Hannah Neeleman can’t seem to win when it comes to angry leftist women. The reality is that no one who eschews feminism can.

When it comes to “inclusive” Democrat women, anyone can have an opinion — except if it differs from leftist orthodoxy. We are running into this problem once again with the latest controversy concerning Ballerina Farm.

Hannah Neeleman, owner of Ballerina Farm, is a social media influencer and former professional ballerina — hence the name of the 300-plus-acre ranch she and her husband, Daniel, run. She posts short-form videos documenting her family’s farm life, her passion for baking and cooking, their farm-fresh wares, and homeschooling their eight kids.

Neeleman has been caught in the feminist crosshairs before. In 2024, she invited Megan Agnew, a British reporter at The London Times, for an interview. Agnew then penned a hit piece about Neeleman, portraying her as a poor, put-upon mother of eight whose kindness is being taken advantage of by her overbearing husband.

The Neelemans were not pleased with the article, as one can imagine.

This year, Hannah and Daniel released a commercial for their new Farmer Protein Powder. In the commercial, it was revealed that Hannah is pregnant with her ninth child.

The internet, of course, lost its mind. One post in particular — from Rebecca Reid, also a British journalist and playwright — received a lot of traction. “You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention, and connection,” Reid asserted. “You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids.”

Notably, Reid has made a living analyzing other people’s lives and relationships, so judging a situation with limited context is par for the course. She does have two small children of her own, each from a different partner, and she was also briefly a single mother with her firstborn, which is a level of difficulty that is tough for many people to imagine. I’m sure those experiences have tempered Reid’s view of large families.

Nevertheless, her comment is ludicrous, and it understandably brought conservative mothers to the defense of the Neelemans. They all pointed out that in larger families, children often get more attention, not less, because more siblings are helping shape and provide love to their family members.

Granted, having a large family in this environment seems like a luxury — not just because of the cost of living, but because we as a society have become very disconnected from one another. Perhaps that double richness of community and material possession explains the jealously and ire against Ballerina Farm.

Another wing of the angry mob is lambasting Neeleman for using her baby to promote a product. That criticism is inauthentic and unfair. Those who follow Hannah on social media do so for the lifestyle she portrays: homesteading, homeschooling, and being a housewife. Getting mad at her for promoting an instinctual brand — being a mom and having a large family — seems silly. Why wouldn’t she promote that?

At the end of the day, feminists will find any reason whatsoever to tear Neeleman down because she’s thriving via a lifestyle that diverges from what their ideology advocates. Leftists contend that men and children are oppressors. Neeleman shows that being a wife and mother is beautiful, hard, and worthy. Feminists advise pursuing your own dreams and gifts in exclusion of everyone else. Neeleman was a professional ballerina who gave up the stage for family and is happy with her decision.

Ballerina Farm exposes feminism’s lies, and the Left hates it every time those lies are brought under the spotlight.

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