If you've never heard of Ballerina Farms, it's a family that is as infamous as they are famous. The most popular person in the family is Hannah Neeleman, the wife and mother, whose name the farm is based on. Neeleman was a former ballerina who became what's popularly known as a "trad wife," while still maintaining her ballerina skills, some of which she passes down to her children.
Neeleman is something of a model woman for many. Incredibly feminine and graceful, a fantastic cook, and a mother of eight.
She's also the CEO of her own very successful company, and she just released what is probably one of the best ads I've ever seen that not only promotes pushing yourself to be better and putting in the work to produce something great, but she flips the script at the end and reveals she was also talking about motherhood this entire time. Moreover, she's pregnant with her ninth child.
You would think she would be the poster child for women. Here is someone who really does do it all. Successful company, lots of kids, happy marriage, but this has actually made her the target of many a feminist.
It doesn't help that they're devoted Christians.
The Neeleman family has been the constant focus of hit pieces, media attacks, and feminist hate. Her husband is especially a target for a lot of the rage that comes at the family, as he's often blamed for "imprisoning" her and using her as an incubator for his offspring. Taking a single look at their Instagram account, you can see he loves his children and his wife, and gives her everything. He even recently built a ballet studio for her that connects to their gym.
But the announcement that Neeleman was pregnant with her ninth child has brought out the tantrum throwers, and one comment in particular is being held up as the ultimate clapback for her pregnancy.
The fact that there's even a clapback for a pregnancy is insane to begin with, but welcome to 2026.
The post is from a woman named Rebecca Reid, in response to an E! News update that the Neelemans are expecting their ninth child, who came at the news with a "concern troll" angle that received over 33,000 likes:
You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids.
You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids. https://t.co/LR0RN0zd8Y
— Rebecca Reid (@RebeccaCNReid) March 1, 2026
A few things that I think I need to point out here.
Reid has openly admitted in the past that she's had an abortion despite saying she's pro-natalist, which is weird in itself because she's finger-wagging at a woman for being pregnant.
But my question is, how would people like Reid and the feminists who agreed with her by the thousands, enough to like the comment, know what it is to love multiple children? Many who've had abortions, like Reid, have denied that experience for themselves, so how can they know how it feels to love a large family?
Moreover, I kind of have to wonder why they think mothers, especially stay-at-home mothers who spend all day with their children, are less capable of giving their children "adequate time, attention, and connection" than, say, teachers, whom the leftist feminists are often advocating for. They seem to believe that "educators" are more than capable of working with large groups of children, teaching them, caring for them, giving them advice, and being a mentor... but not a mother?
Obviously, I can't see into Reid's mind, but I'm not exactly understanding the "why" of her post. Does she think she's helping children everywhere by promoting the birth of fewer children? If she doesn't understand what being a mother is because she stopped her own chance at motherhood from happening, how is it that she seems to know how much a mother can love each of her children?
It seemed to work out for us throughout human history when, historically, families were as big as they could get them, and many were perfectly happy with far fewer amenities and advantages than we have today.
There may very well be an element of jealousy, but if you ask me, I think the reason people like Reid get so angry is that people like the Neeseman family prove her ideological stances wrong. You can be a mother and successful. You can have a husband who loves you and children who need you, and still be the boss babe you were told you needed to be if you were to be anything at all.
For many like Reid, they bought the idea that it was one or the other, and you should always choose the "other" because marriage was actually slavery and men were trash, and mothers are all secretly miserable people who wish they'd never had kids.
I can see modern feminism dying in its own hands. It already is, but where I see its vital organs hit hardest is whenever they bash themselves against a happy, successful nuclear family.
