{"id":209004,"date":"2025-12-03T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/tradwife-vs-tradwife-even-christians-have-had-enough-of-ballerina-farm\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:55:37","slug":"tradwife-vs-tradwife-even-christians-have-had-enough-of-ballerina-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/tradwife-vs-tradwife-even-christians-have-had-enough-of-ballerina-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradwife vs. Tradwife: Even Christians Have Had Enough of Ballerina Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">For most of this year, <strong>Kyrie Luke<\/strong> has been telling her more than 72,000 YouTube subscribers that it\u2019s time for Christian moms to renegotiate their relationship to the internet. She didn\u2019t realize how important that advice would be until this September, when videos of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/fox-news-charlie-kirk-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing<\/a> rapidly began circulating online. Last month, Luke told <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> that while she never sought out footage of Kirk bleeding out, it appeared on her feeds anyway. \u201cI was shocked, and I couldn\u2019t sleep for days,\u201d she says. \u201cI was not meant to see that. I should not have seen that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luke doesn\u2019t post about the topics that would obviously put her in the Turning Point USA orbit, but Kirk and his organization\u2019s characteristic melding of politics and faith have been so influential on the Christian internet that she was hearing commentary from her audience immediately. She films videos for the Transformed Homemakers Society, her channel and blog, from her home in Idaho, where she lives with her husband and three kids. Over the last five years, Luke has built a strong relationship with audience members, who come to her for domestic advice using principles gleaned from the Bible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Luke is part of a wave of conservative Christian influencers whose content attempts to present a more realistic alternative to the pastoral ideal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/tradwives-influencers-onlyfans-tensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok tradwives<\/a>. They\u2019re building smaller but perhaps more engaged audiences across social media platforms, blogs, and alternative forums like Substack and Patreon. If the first tradwife era was about making the conservative lifestyle seem attractive, this new wave of influencers is trying to make it seem sustainable for women who have already chosen that path\u2014even if retaining that audience means turning away from right-wing rage bait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Luke started out as a basic domestic content creator, writing a recipe blog and decorating tips. \u201cIt was very surface level, talking about aesthetics and things like that,\u201d she says. Eventually she started feeling overwhelmed by the demands of an unsustainable ideal and decided she needed to heal. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, Is this our calling? Is this actually what God wants for us? Should women be doing this? Is this even healthy for us? This seems totally unsustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">So she pivoted. Her audience, she says, \u201cdoesn\u2019t resonate with the perfect house, the perfectly, aesthetically clean house. Nobody can afford that, really.\u201d Luke wants them to understand that successful content creators associated with the tradwife trend, like <strong>Hannah Neeleman<\/strong> of Ballerina Farm, aren\u2019t necessarily doing things the average woman can emulate\u2014not even the average Christian woman. \u201cNumber one, they have a great aesthetic online because they can fund it. Number two, they have very particular convictions when it comes to having children.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/tradwife-vs-tradwife-even-christians-have-had-enough-of-ballerina-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of this year, Kyrie Luke has been telling her more than 72,000 YouTube subscribers that it\u2019s time for Christian moms to renegotiate their relationship to the internet. She didn\u2019t realize how important that advice would be until this September, when videos of Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing rapidly began circulating online. Last month, Luke told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[944,11425,10052,950,1531,5193],"class_list":{"0":"post-209004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-culture","9":"tag-family","10":"tag-influencers","11":"tag-instagram","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-social-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}