Tradwife Content Is Coming For Teens Now. What Parents Need To Know

‘I’m 19 years old, married, no degree, no 9 to 5, and I’m exactly where I want to be,’ said one creator in a TikTok that went viral.

Lifestyle Reporter, HuffPost

No, you’re not imagining it: Tradwives are getting younger and younger.

Like the tradwives who came before them – Estee Williams; Hannah Neeleman, known online as Ballerina Farm; and Nara Smith, who now pushes back on the label – the current crop of TikTok tradwives make elaborate, from-scratch meals, cater to their husbands and families, and happily tidy up the home.

The difference? Many of them are just 18 or 19 years old.

“I’m 19 years old, married, no degree, no 9 to 5, and I’m exactly where I want to be,” said Ava Ahavat in a TikTok that went viral earlier this summer. The video was viewed almost 17 million times before Ahavat deleted it amid the online controversy that ensued.

“She’s one argument away from being homeless,” one Redditor wrote in response to the video.

But Ahavat sure looks like she’s living well and happy at the moment, wearing a smart puff-sleeved dress and a pricey Van Cleef bracelet, and smiling big throughout the clip.

Another tradwife teen on TikTok, Lily (@xoxo.lilyyy_alexa), posts picturesque videos of herself cooking and caring for the baby she and her husband had last year, when she was 18. Even if the domesticity she portrays is genuine, some of her content is clearly designed to rage bait.

“Make me a sandwich… Yes, sir!” reads the overlay on one video, which shows Lily flouncing around the kitchen in a cotton sundress as she cheerfully prepares a roast beef sandwich entirely from scratch.

Others actively encourage couples to marry young and raise a family as soon as possible.

“Marry YOUNG. Cute outfits. Baking/cooking. Pregnant at 19. Baby by 20. 4 Kids. All in Gods will,” @faithdauph writes in one video showing off her ring to strains of Lana del Rey.

HuffPost reached out to all three influencers but did not hear back.

Parents of teen girls have valid concerns about the videos, experts say

Understandably, some parents are worried about their teenage daughters falling for this kind of glossy, aspirational content on TikTok. The concern isn’t necessarily that young women will aspire to be stay-at-home mothers, but that social media can present financial dependence on a partner as an........

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