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On Friday, Hannah Neeleman,<\/strong> the influencer better known as Ballerina Farm<\/a>, shared that she would be on the third print-issue cover of Evie,<\/em> an online outlet aimed at conservative women. On their respective Instagram accounts, Neeleman and the magazine shared a soft-focus video<\/a> taken at sunset on Neeleman\u2019s ranch in Kamas, Utah. Following The Sunday Times<\/em><\/a>\u2019 profile of Ballerina Farm with her eight children and husband Daniel,<\/strong> which prompted widespread discussion and criticism when it was published in July, Evie<\/em>\u2019s yet-to-be-released story may be more of what Neeleman had hoped for when the influencer first invited a reporter to her home.<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In July, Neeleman said that she didn\u2019t identify with the \u201dtradwife\u201d label even as her social media presence became associated with the conservative-coded label applied to women who promote supposedly traditional ideas about motherhood and family in their content.<\/p>\n \u201cOn her first ever cover, the former Juilliard ballerina turned beauty queen and farmer brings us in for an intimate look at life, marriage, motherhood, and documenting her brand-building journey to an audience of 20 million people around the world,\u201d reads a statement<\/a> from Evie.<\/em> It added that its story about Neeleman is a part of its goal to be a \u201ca new vision of American culture\u2014a celebration of Americana, beauty, grounded ambition, and timeless values.\u201d<\/p>\n The issue, which blares the cover line \u201cThe Importance of Being Sexy,\u201d also features Vani Hari,<\/strong> a food influencer who has recently praised<\/a> president-elect Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong> to his Cabinet, and Eva Vlaardingerbroek,<\/strong> a right-wing Dutch political commentator who promoted conspiracies<\/a> during her appearances on Tucker Carlson<\/strong>\u2019s since-canceled Fox show.<\/p>\n Evie<\/em> was founded in 2018 by editor in chief Brittany Martinez<\/strong> (who sometimes goes by her married name, Hugoboom), a model and entrepreneur, and her husband, Gabriel Hugoboom.<\/strong> When the website launched, Martinez said that her goal for founding the magazine was to push more traditional ideas of womanhood. \u201cFor decades, women\u2019s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique,\u201d she wrote for Quillette<\/a>. \u201cIt was this gap in the market that made me and my colleagues wonder: \u201cWhat if there were a conservative Cosmo<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n In 2022, Martinez and Hugoboom also secured funding<\/a> from Peter Thiel<\/strong>\u2019s investment firm for a menstrual-cycle-tracking app called 28 that Martinez described<\/a> as employing \u201cscience-backed insights that look and feel like a horoscope for all the key areas of your life, only we use hormone science instead of astrology.\u201d\u00a0In 2023, Vice<\/em><\/a> noted that COVID-19 vaccine skepticism had become a mainstay of content on Evie<\/em>\u2019s website.\u00a0(In response to the Vice<\/em> article, Martinez posted on X, \u201cTruly insane that Vice<\/em> literally wrote, \u2018the many imaginary harms caused to women from COVID vaccines.\u2019\u201d)<\/p>\n In past press coverage, Neeleman and her husband have been loath to discuss their politics, though in the Times<\/em> interview, Daniel noted<\/a> that the pair shares traditional Mormon beliefs against elective abortion. Along with the rise of Trump\u2019s 17-year-old granddaughter Kai Trump<\/strong> on YouTube<\/a> and an upswell of criticism<\/a> aimed at Nara Aziz Smith<\/strong> over a MAGA-related post shared (and later deleted) by her husband, Lucky Blue Smith,<\/strong> Neeleman\u2019s side-taking may be another sign that the age of the apolitical influencer is over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nInstagram content<\/h4>\n