LDS influencer Ballerina Farm says she’s not ‘oppressed’ [Video]

Utah’s Hannah Neeleman — aka Ballerina Farm — stepped into the storm caused by a recent profile of the Latter-day Saint influencer and mother of eight, calling The (London) Times story “an attack on our family and my marriage.”

“We had a reporter come into our home to learn more about our family and business,” she said Wednesday on Instagram and TikTok, explaining, “we thought the interview went really well. …We were taken back, however, when we saw the printed article, which shocked us and shocked the world.”

The video statement comes after nearly two weeks of debate that has gobbled up whole sections of the internet and overtaken family and friend text threads. At the heart of the dispute: whether Neeleman, who has won over millions of social media followers with videos of herself milking cows and baking bread, is a victim.

The match that lit the fuse was a profile published by The Times. In it, author Megan Agnew, who …