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She looks happy, peaceful, lit from within.
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Of course, shes not really alone.
Hannah may make life after ballet look easy and fulfilling, but the truth is far more nuanced.
Social media users found it beyond depressing that Neelemangave up her dreamsin order to follow her husbands.
His name alone is on theBallerina Farm LLC, though she is the face of the brand.
Though she gave up the stage years ago, she remains a consummate performer.
Were talking about the feminine person version of this dance form.
Were talking about the pinnacle of a very specific kind of womanhood, a very specific kind of femininity.
Dancers are rarely asked what would feel good to them.
These are, of course, all things that could also be said about trad-wife influencers.
From a young age, I learned to make myself just as subservient as Hannah Neeleman seems to be.
Juilliard dancers can earn a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree at the end of four years of training.
I was going to be a ballerina, she told Agnew.
I was a good ballerina.
But she knew ballet and motherhood, especially the motherhood of traditional Mormonism, were incompatible.
I knew that when I started to have kids my life would start to look different, she admitted.
In some ways, a ballet careers demandsare at odds with those of motherhood.
Hannah Neeleman may have pivoted her lifes dream, but other things remained exactly the same.
