Of the many questions people have for Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman, there’s one the mother of eight gets more than others: Does she want to have more children?
The 34-year-old beauty queen and her husband, 35-year-old JetBlue heir Daniel Neeleman, previously took to Hannah’s TikTok. to answer the burning question: “How many children do you plan to have?”
Although they haven’t confirmed if they will have more children, they certainly don’t rule out welcoming a new baby.
“This is by far the number one question we get,” Hannah said.
“We don’t actually have a number,” Daniel chimed in. “We’re just trying.”
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman share eight children, all between the ages of 12 and six months.
Hannah and Daniel met and married when she was 21 and he was 22, after meeting at a college basketball game.
Hannah and Daniel, who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are raising their eight children: Henry, 12, Charles, 10, George, nine, Frances, seven, Lois, five, Martha, three, Mabel, three, and Flora, six months, on their 328-acre farm in Utah.
Their ultra-traditional lifestyle came under intense scrutiny following a recent article by The Times of London which gave a vision of its reality.
In the piece, the couple talked about whether or not they wanted to expand their family.
“For me it’s a prayer thing,” Hannah said in the July 27 article. “I think, ‘God, is it time to bring another one to Earth?’ And I’ve never been told no.”
Daniel added: “But for some reason, it’s exactly nine months (after having a baby) that she’s ready for the next one.”
Hannah added that growing their brood is “definitely a matter of prayer,” while Daniel said, “It’s a matter of prayer, but in some ways it’s exactly nine months.”
However, Hannah is happy with her life as it is, she told The Times.
“I feel like we’re doing what God wants,” she said, while Daniel nodded: “We’re kind of on His chore.”
Shortly after marrying, Hannah and Daniel welcomed their first child together, a boy they named Henry, followed by two more sons in quick succession, Charles and George.
After graduating from Juilliard, the budding dancer put her career on the back burner to focus on starting a family.
Their ultra-traditional lifestyle has come under intense scrutiny following a recent Times of London article that provided a glimpse into their reality.
Many comments on TikTok referenced the article, which claimed that her husband often spoke to her during the interview and noted that she was so exhausted by her hectic lifestyle that she was bedridden for days.
“She’s not a machine that f…k you up… this is crazy. She’s exhausted. She can’t have vacations, she cooks all day without anyone’s help… (poor) woman,” commented one user on the video.
—He answered! As if he had no opinion! —another shouted.
“Large families are something completely different. Those who haven’t experienced them can’t even understand them. I think they’re wonderful,” argued another user.
Hannah and Daniel often share snippets of their idyllic life on social media, posting under Ballerina Farm, the name of their shared business.
Hannah and her husband launched their company Ballerina Farm in 2019, which now sells a variety of products made from their livestock, including ground beef and pork, as well as desserts and fresh produce.
She has She amassed millions of followers on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube thanks to her “trad wife” content — a shortened term for “traditional wife” that describes a woman who trades modern femininity for household chores, including cooking, cleaning and childbearing.
Hannah’s farming business, social media presence and brood continued to grow, and in the years that followed she welcomed three more daughters: Lois, Martha and Mabel.
Just two weeks after giving birth, she traveled to Las Vegas to compete in the Mrs. World beauty pageant, with her newborn baby in tow.
An aspiring dancer, Hannah moved to New York City at age 17 to study at Juilliard, but met her current husband shortly thereafter.
They married just a few months after they started dating and began having children before she graduated from Julliard.
After graduating, the budding dancer put her career on the back burner to focus on starting a family.
He moved to Brazil after Daniel was offered a position at one of his father’s startups, which was based in South America, and it was there that the self-proclaimed “urbanite” discovered his passion for agriculture.
In 2017, she, her husband and children moved back to the US and to a farm in Utah, where Hannah began documenting the ups and downs of running the ranch while also caring for her many children on her Instagram.
Hannah recently returned to beauty pageants and competed in the coveted Mrs. World contest just two weeks after giving birth to her eighth child in January.
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