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Over the weekend I saw two stories from two different women. Two women both exercising free agency, but how they viewed motherhood, how they viewed women in general, how they viewed relationship with men, how they viewed purpose and fulfillment could not be more different. And the message that it's sending to young women could not be more different. One worldview says become yourself. The other worldview says give yourself. So today we're going to talk about where both both of these women find their purpose and what their reported outcome and feelings and fulfillment towards themselves and the world around them really is. Let's start with Emily Ratajkowski. If you don't know who she is, you've probably seen her before. Actually, I've got a picture of her on screen. She's a supermodel. Clearly makes sense. She's beautiful, gorgeous, stunning. Like so symmetrical. Her hair, her face, her body. Body tea. That's what the young people are saying. She's got 28 million followers on Instagram. Actually she's an actress. She played John Girl, also an author. She wrote a book titled My Body a few years ago which is like this collection of essays about the modeling industry and consent and objectification and feminism and how her body had been both her power and something that over the years others tried to and as she describes it, have successfully owned. One more thing about her that I learned in researching her for this, this episode was that she's a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood. Uh, which makes her reported experience of motherhood and feelings towards being a mom that we're going to break down a little less surprising. Uh, she is a self described, a self identified feminist. Uh, I would argue, most importantly, even if maybe she doesn't agree, most importantly, she is a mom to I believe a now five year old boy. Uh, I saw this article, at least the headline, you know, the COVID photo of this article pop up on my Instagram over the weekend. We've got the photo on screen which feels a little explicit to show I don't know how we're going to have to like edit this to make sure this is even able to stay up on YouTube, you see Emily Ratajkowski again. Beautiful, very large breast, right? You see her posing here with an open shirt. She's got a baby. I thought this was a real baby. At first debunked. This is a baby doll. So a f. Fake baby. The setting looks like a New York City apartment. She lives in New York City. I found out from this article. If you're looking on screen, you can see that she is holding the baby, obviously emulating nursing. So she has this fake baby doll that looks like a real baby sucking on her breasts. There are also photos. Look, we're scrolling through here. So on one hand she's nursing her baby. The other hand she has. It looks like alcohol. And based on the article, I think this is a gin martini. So over the weekend, this photo pops up on my instagra. It was the first thing I saw before knowing anything about the article or the crux of the article. I see this photo and the first thing that pops into my mind is, I don't like this. This is uncomfortable. I'm looking at these pictures, trying to understand again, what's going on here. At the time, thinking this was a real baby. This photo is genuinely disturbing, right? Like, this is a very clear and desperate cry for attention. At least that's how I see it. I see a woman who has completely lost sense of taste and class and has crossed into the realm of pure ridiculousness. And I know some people will say, like, you know, Riley, this is art. We're just showcasing the. The dichotomy that can exist with moms. On one hand, you can be an attentive mother and be there for your child. On the other hand, you can prioritize yourself and go out and have fun and drink alcohol. I don't really see this as art. Maybe the message that's trying to be sent here is a good one, but I believe this image actually totally distracts from that message. I. I think the issue here is turning this into, like a sensual photo shoot while a baby, a fake baby, albeit, is attached to your breasts. I just feel very strongly now, especially after having a child, especially a little baby girl, that there should never, ever, ever be a setting where a child is placed in a context that's meant to be sexy or provocative. Right. And I think society actually agrees with that. Most people aren't okay with that. It crosses a line for many people, certainly myself included. And honestly, Emily Ratajkowski's platform is a little bit ironic because I mentioned her book, My Body in it. I was reading some Online, she's very clear on her stance on the objectification of women. Yet this is a woman who has done a lot of highly sexualized work. She's in various shoots for Sports Illustrated. Actually, one of the things that actually probably the thing that made her as famous as she is now was being cast and starring in Robin Thicke's music video for Blurred Lines. That music video made her famous for showing her breasts for many minutes across the screen. And now she's taken it upon herself to explain how showing your breasts. Your call has been forwarded to voicemail.
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Netflix, can in fact lead to being exploited and objectified thanks to what she calls the CIS hetero patriarchal construct that we live in. I don't know, it feels very Meghan Markle of her. Anyways, she was married to Sebastian Bear McLard. They were married for four years. I think he's like a movie producer. They were married for about four years before divorcing, but the article actually says they stopped having sex about six months postpartum. Post birth she says. Actually that is the piece that led to their separation and their divorce, which was finalized in 2025. The piece that she wrote was titled Mother Effort, which actually in the literal sense kind of makes sense based on what she's describing. She describes embarking on this period of like compulsive dating following her separation, saying that she's just trying to figure out what kind of woman that she wanted to become. So ironically, this self described feminist needed men to tell her what kind of women she can and should be. Just to go through some of the articles, she talks about the birth experience that she had with her five year old son and she describes it as pretty horrific. She Sundays it was four hours of pushing, severe tearing. She actually describes how in pretty graphic detail, by the way, I'm just summarizing here. She describes how the muscle between her anus and her vagina like ripped. She said that her baby had matching scabs on his head from being tugged out similar to the scabs that she had on her downstairs region. She says verbatim it was a violent transition into a new reality of a screaming baby. On her aching tit. I don't want to discount or discredit any woman's birth experience or birth story because labor in its literal sense, by the way, is traumatic. Like, it's a traumatic thing for your body to go through. Nothing is where it's supposed to be. Your organs have shifted, especially women who go through a C section. I mean, you're physically being cut open, like, sliced in half, if you will. So is it uncomfortable in, like, 99% of experiences? Yes. Does it come with pain? Yes. Does it come with trauma? Certainly. But if you talk to most moms about their labor and delivery, you know, maybe they'll recount the pain, but it will almost pretty immediately be followed with, but I would do it 10,000 times over because it gave me this beautiful little child that I'm now holding in my hands. That doesn't seem to be how Emily Ratajkowski viewed it. I talk about it all the time, and this is just really another example of this. But the messaging that young women are fed all the time online and on social media about pregnancy and delivery and postpartum and having a baby that turns into a toddler, the toddler tantrums and the newborn trenches, and you're never going to sleep again, and your life changes dramatically. You're never going to be able to go out and have fun or a late night with your friends. Your. Your relationship with your husband is going to change. Motherhood is just filled with sacrifices. Look, I'm not here to say that some of those things, or in some cases, maybe all of those things are true. But what that's not followed with the message that young women aren't receiving is the purpose that you find in being a mom. How I believe it's the highest calling for women, how beautiful and unique and intentional. God's design for us as women is to be able to grow a child and to. To push a baby out of our body. How our body changes and adapts specifically so we can do these things, how we're able to then nurture our baby body contains everything we could possibly need to literally grow a human being. It's so cool. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily that she talks about her pretty horrendous birthing experience, because I think it's a good thing for women to. To know that. But it's also important to know that that's not the case for everyone. I've talked about it. I had a fantastic, positive, lovely birthing experience. It is the closest I have ever Felt to God, to heaven. It felt ethereal. I loved it. So much so that I'm ready to do it again immediately, whenever this is my time to get pregnant. Like I am ready, God willing. But as I said, she goes on to then start compulsively dating to figure out what kind of woman that she wants to be. She says that she had only slept with eight people prior to motherhood. She had always avoided one night stands because she wanted to stay precious. She wanted to maintain this good girl Persona. But now, word for word, she decided to F her way into a new kind of woman. These are, this is a quote from the article. She says, I wanted to destroy the Madonna, the special girl I'd worked so hard to be before an 8 pound baby had torn my vagina in two and replace her with the whore. She writes about, you know, some of the dates that she went on, which range from weird, I think, at best, to absolutely degrading and demeaning. She talks about a DJ that she was with who was into incest pornography. She mentions an older guy in the piece, a guy she refers to as elder millennial who got off on degrading her, calling her names like street walker and dirty whore during sex and slapping her around. Yet she consistently went back because she wanted to be the praying mantis. She felt like she had power over him, although again, he's the one slapping her around, which, that alone, I think, sends a pretty horrific message to women. She would talk about how she would end these relationship with these men when they say they love her. And so her big takeaway was the more that she seemed not to need a man, the more that those men desperately needed her. And so it spends the majority of the article talking about her, her dating life and the purpose that she found in that and being this, you know, dominatrix, all while being slapped around in bed. But the, the very end of the article, I'm talking like it spins, you know, a pretty short paragraph on this. She talks about how she's proud ultimately that she left her husband. She talks about initially struggling with feelings of rejection and being alone and being seen as the single mother. She says, I wasn't the one that was left. I actually left, I'm assuming, talking about her marriage. Being able to leave, to say no, was the real superpower that I'd gained through divorce. And so her core reflection that you only really get once you get to the very bottom of the article was that leaving her marriage was the very brave thing to do. Single motherhood is not ruinous she rejects, you know, the pitying looks that single moms get or the divorced single mom label. I think the main point she wanted to make in this article was that purpose for a woman or for a mom comes through sexual self reclamation, improving that, you know, you need nothing from, from men. All while still attracting, desperately attracting that attention. One more quote in the article. She said, what I wanted was his attention. I wanted to feel a man's desire and to be reminded that I was a sexual, not just a mother of a toddler. She goes on to say, having a child with the wrong man was the fastest way to ruin your life as a woman. It meant having no freedom, no choices, no emergency exit, all baggage and no security. Which this breaks my heart to read because you have to imagine that her son maybe will one day grow up and read this. I don't want to shame Emily Ratajkowski, although I do believe that as a society we should bring back a level of shame. First and foremost is that this was absolutely and totally out of touch with reality and with real people. Clearly she is a supermodel. She can afford daycare or a nanny. She has, I guess, access to endless amount of guys, affluent men by the way, in her sleeping around era. Whereas most single moms don't really have that. They can't just go to the bar in New York City and pick up a really rich man to then take back to his apartment and sleep with. A lot of women online saw this as insulting to single moms who are like truly struggling every day to survive. They didn't really feel like they could relate with her single mother experience. But beyond some of the backlash for the COVID photo, the photos that we showed on the show and kind of like the out of touch celebrity privilege narrative that doesn't represent typical single mom realities. There was a lot of praise for Emily Ratajkowski. I'm sure you're shocked, right? The Internet praises self identified feminist who's attempting to find herself by sleeping with a bunch of men while her child's at home with the nanny sleeping in the crib. Right?
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Shocker.
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But I shared this with you though, because I wanted to explicitly highlight the hypocrisy and the difference in response that we see from a story like this. You know, the response from people online, in social media, comments from media outlets from societal institutions versus a woman like Hannah Nealman or Ballerina Farm who is a mom of nine and a CEO of a company. First and foremost, who is Ballerina Farm. Like I said, her name is Hannah Nealman. She's also objectively beautiful. I've got a picture of her and her husb green and you can just tell by the photo they, they look happy, they look content. She's 35 years old. Her husband is Daniel, the guy in the photo. Important to mention that he was independently very wealthy, or at least his family is very wealthy. He's the son of JetBlue founder. She trained as a ballerina at Juilliard. It's actually where she met her husband. They got married. They're Mormon. They have nine children together. I think the ninth was born this past March. To have nine children by 35 is pretty impressive. I mean, just from like a biological standpoint. They live in Utah on a 300 plus acre ranch. Her and her husband are also co CEOs of Ballerina Farm. That's their brand. She homeschools in like a barn, school house. She posts a lot of her content and lifestyle online. It's very beautiful, it's very curated, it's very aesthetic. She has like these glowing videos of homemade meals and her kids playing in the yard and dirt in their feet and all of her animals and that, that beautiful aga st actually watch one of her videos.
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One of my favorite family traditions that we do are birthday breakfast on the kid's birthday. So we got going this morning because Henry is turning 13 today. And I'll never forget 13 years ago, Henry was born in a little hospital in Brooklyn, New York, just six days before my college graduation. So I remember walking across the stage to receive my diploma and holding tiny little Henry in my arms. It was such a special memory that I'll cherish forever. And it feels like yesterday. So crazy. It's been 13 years. So today we made his favorite, which was German pancakes. And Daniel made some homemade yogurt and water kefir. Last night, Charles made some glazed carrots. Daniel whipped up some beautiful French omelettes. The kids had fun setting the table and lighting all the candles for Henry. He's the best oldest son to this crazy bunch of ours. He's patient and he's loving and he's a very hard worker and he's a foodie and we love celebrating him today.
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Like, come on, that's beautiful and peaceful and wholesome. At least to me that is the, the depiction, the embodiment of wholesome. As you saw. I mean, she posts her content online. She's clearly not just a homemaker. She has this company with her husband. She's an entrepreneur, she's a brand builder, she's a creator She's a public figure, which kind of goes against the entire reason why she's in the news. As of recent anyways, there's a best selling novel by Carol Claire Burke called Yesteryear which totally pokes fun at, you know, makes the whole tradwife movement very satirical. Many readers couldn't help but notice the parallels between the main character Natalie in the book Yesteryear and Hannah or Ballerina Farm, saying that this book was very clearly inspired by Ballerina Farm. A reporter asked Ballerina Farm about this and she rejects the trad wife, which I guess I haven't really defined. Trad wife. Maybe I should. Trad Wife is women who reject modern gender roles and reverted to a more old fashioned definition of womanhood. Right. Trad meaning traditional. So traditional wife. But Hannah rejects this label altogether. She says, yes, I have nine kids, yes, I love my husband, Yes, I care about my, my family and my role as a mom to my children. But she says I'm kind of the furthest thing from traditional. You know, she has a high earning job as a contributor to their. She was in Ballerina at Juilliard. She said those things don't really seem traditional to me. But I don't pay attention to the labels or to the noise online. I just focus on my family and I really do what God feels like he's leading me to do. And that sort of security and confidence, confidence that you find in being a present mom, it drives people crazy. Let's watch some TikToks.
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If you don't believe yet that patriarchy
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operates like a cult, look no further than this Ballerina lady.
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Whether we view their content as aspirational and we secretly want to be like them, or whether we are critical of them and view them through a feminist lens that says the kind of content they create and profit off of the kind of content they are selling to us is patriarchal, anti feminist content intent on subjugating women.
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It was, is, and always will be about the subjugation of women. And for some reason, y' all just aren't grasping it. The cruelty is the point, y'.
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I see Hannah or Ballerina Farm getting mocked, mocked all of the time online. And it's not just Hannah. It's anyone who really loves motherhood and homemaking and family life and spending time in the Word and growing in your relationship with the Lord individually, but also with your. Your husband or your spouse or your partner. Okay, I see people getting mocked for that all the time online. People like feel the need to psychoanalyze Ballerina Farm. She. She must secretly be unhappy, right? You know, is she trapped? Is her husband half her trapped in that marriage? Brainwashed? There's this whole thing. Performative. She's constantly called regressive. Her content is called patriarchal propaganda. She's accused all the time of hiding her wealth and the help that she has. She's told constantly that she's the one who's setting women back, taking us back in time. So just to be very clear, that same culture that often celebrates and encourages that sexual autonomy narrative for young women treats the visible choice of a large family and making that large family a domestic priority as dangerous. And the response online should tell us something the Internet cannot handle. A woman who finds joy and contentment in a life that is not centered on self optimization. And actually, I really do believe this. I think the people mocking Ballerina Farm online live in this, like, primal state of jealousy. I think they're jealous of what Hannah has, how she portrays herself and the things that. That she finds joy in. People are oftentimes. I've learned this over few years. They're oftentimes most offended by someone who seems happy, who lives a life that they like, a life that they chose to live, mind you. And that's what Hannah does. She appears content. Even how she's responded to reporters over the years and just saying, look, I keep my head down. I don't focus on the noise. That sort of contentment drives people crazy and it's deeply threatening, particularly when it comes from a life that modern elites oftentimes just dismiss. Taking a quick pause because I want to mention a college success story. Spotlight presented to you by Y. Refi. Today's Spotlight is an incredible story about using your platform to lift up others. I want to highlight Mudia Rubin, which is a fantastic wide receiver for the USF Bulls. Mudia grew up hearing about the extreme hardships that his parents faced in Nigeria. I mean, even to get clean water. He saw the deep scars on his father's leg from that sort of grueling labor. Instead of just playing football and enjoying his own success, Mudia took a major portion of his nil earnings and founded the Nigeria Water Project, which has now brought clean, safe drinking water to six different villages in Nigeria. That is incredible. And on top of that, he's pursuing a master's degree in biomedical engineering. I don't know how he has time for all of that. I love Mudia's story because it shows, of course, not just his athletic prowess, but his incredible character. He is playing for his Family's heritage and for the future of people. I mean, half a world away, why refi? They understand that your life is about more than just a balance on a screen. It's about your family and your legacy and your future. They help you manage and restructure your student debt. So you can stop focusing and stressing over the numbers and focus on what really matters. Go check out YREFI today. That is Y R E F y dot com. So to just compare the two worldviews again, that of Emily Ratajkowski and that of Hannah Nealman or Ballerina Farm. Ballerina Farm Hannah. She talks about her greatest work being within the walls, the four walls of her home. She talks about how motherhood has gotten sweeter with time and with every child. You know, she loves the chaos. She never tries to hide the fact that motherhood is in fact a sacrifice. She talks about her sacrifice all the time, or one of them. There are many sacrifices you make, but the big one for her was she sacrificed the professional ballet path because she wanted to, because family mattered more to her purpose and legacy for her, they come from what her children will say about her, not from any sort of public opinion or climbing some external or corporate ladder. She really frames it as leaning into, as I said, the talents that God gave her. Nurturing and building something entrepreneurial, but more importantly, a legacy for her kids to carry on. And that was one thing I noticed when looking at these two stories. For Hannah, her legacy is relational and it's multi generational. She talks about what her children will say about her and her farm and her family culture. These are things that will outlast her. It didn't seem as if Emily thought much past, you know, the next guy she would be under or on top of, I don't know. Emily was into self gratification. I mean literally even sexual self gratification. She talks about it in her piece. She's into self gratification, immediate gratification, gratification. There was nothing long term about her thinking. And I'm not surprised by the response that we have seen, especially from media outlets and online because that's the world that we live in. It is very self serving. It is a very immediate. And so the thought of sacrifice I think society is increasingly uncomfortable with. We live in a very me, me, me, I, I society. So someone else pouring into others is like a foreign concept. Comparing their view of motherhood. For Emily, it's this violent body altering rupture that requires active offsetting through sexual agency and dating. It's real and raw. Like I said in the essay, you have to give it to her. She's. She is vulnerable in talking about the tearing and the scabs and the aching tit. But the story arc is. And then I went out and reclaimed my sexuality. Anyway, so motherhood to Emily, it appears to me. Again, I'm just analyzing this and interpreting how I read the piece. Motherhood to Emily is something that you survive and then transcend or balance with hot, single mob sexual energy. But for Hannah, it starts hard. Yes. Like she mentions, this last pregnancy, her ninth one, was very tough with a sciatic injury. So it starts hard for Hannah, but it gets sweeter. She talks about loving, being covered in babies. What blessing. Motherhood to Hannah, again based on how I'm interpreting it, is not an obstacle to overcome or a season to escape. It's central to her. It's an irreplaceable vocation that reshapes everything else. How you view the world, your perspective on every topic, including how she runs her business. Clearly, those two frameworks and mindsets could not be more different. On how these. These women view moms view other women, also important to mention, how they view men is entirely different. Here's what I'll kind of wrap it up with. Obviously, both of these women are exercising agency and free will. But these messages, they land differently in a culture that's already struggling with loneliness. Especially my generation, especially young women, a generation that is struggling and suffering with feelings of isolation and desperation and anxiety and high suicide rates and declining marriage and birth rates. Young women, they do. They often report high anxiety about the future. You have one narrative that we discussed today that feeds the idea to young women especially that family and traditional forms of femininity are obstacles to power. Those are hurdles. Those are in the way. And you have another narrative that quietly demonstrates that they can be sources of power and beauty and legacy. It's a really chaotic time. I believe this to be a young woman. They're fed so many conflicting messages. On one hand, they're told, you know, get married. And there's a level of pressure to that. And I think a lot of times young women want that, but they have a hard time finding their person, so they're stressed with that. On the other hand, they're told, you know, you don't need to get married. Go sleep around, have fun in your 20s that will be there later for you in life. Go travel the world, climb the corporate ladder. All sorts of conflicting messages for young woman. You don't have to want Hannah Nealman's life or ballerina farm's life. You don't have to want Emily Ratajkowski's life. But let's at least be honest that these women represent competing visions of of life. One that is primarily rooted in self def. One that is rooted in family and sacrifice. And every young woman who's watching online, not just this show, but who has social media, who consumes content, they're learning from both of those worldviews. My hope isn't that all young women make identical choices and go out and have their farm and do the homestead trad wife thing. My hope is that women are free to choose without being mocked, free to embrace motherhood without apology, free to build beautiful homes and families if they desire, free to pursue careers if they so desire. But above all free to recognize that their worth doesn't come from likes or beauty or status or sexuality or achievement. Their worth is inherent. It comes from the Lord that in every culture, it really does, it eventually reflects what its women are taught to value most. So I guess the bigger question is, what are we teaching young women now? You know, I thought being bloated after every meal was normal. It's not. Once I really focus on changing my gut, everything changed. I'm talking, yes, obviously, the bloat, my hair, my skin, my nails, even my immunity. And one thing that I noticed that made a really big difference for me was taking cowboy colostrum. 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