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LDS influencer Ballerina Farm is adamant: She is not ‘oppressed’

The Utah woman at the center of one of the hottest internet debates called the reporter’s angle “predetermined,” and insists she and her husband are “co-parents, co-CEOs.”

(Bridget Bennett | The New York Times) Hannah Neeleman, last year’s Mrs. American pageant winner, holds her newborn daughter, Flora Jo, after the Mrs. World beauty pageant at the Westgate Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Jan. 21, 2024. Like many online influencers, Neeleman has successfully monetized her popularity. With that success, however, has come scrutiny. And now the Latter-day Saint mother of eight is pushing back on what she says was a biased attempt by a journalist to paint her as the submissive wife to a controlling, if devoted, husband.