She left Amish life. Now millions watch her cook in Amish dress.

Lovina Zook is using technology once forbidden to her to reinterpret a tradition she fled, complicating both the internet’s “tradwife” fantasies and outsiders’ romantic ideas about the Amish.

(Joe Taylor Cinema via Adobe Stock) An Amish covered buggy travels along a road in Davis County, Iowa. Lovina Zook fled her Amish roots and now is a TikTok star.