People are angry over this Mormon 'housewife' influencer...

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[amyu.]

I feel like people who grew up with social media forgets that social media isn’t real life. It’s entertainment. Nobody is telling anyone how to live.

[bb-uusv]

if you’re a mom and can’t find the time in your day to do what nara does don’t feel bad. she’s a wealthy woman meaning more likely than not she has help with her children. esp since she has time to make grilled cheese sandwiches and cereal from scratch, dress up for the video, get the perfect angles and then edit her videos. she’s doing her job, and her job is performance 🤷🏽‍♀️

[Love_cats]

People who are wealthy can put their energy into unrealistic ridiculous things because they have the support. The rest of us are to exhausted to do this.

[Housewarmin]

I thought it was obvious that her content wasn't real? She's making an aesthetically pleasing cooking video with a "story". I'm pretty sure she just loves to cook, and as a model this is how she does it. I don't think it's that serious to send her hate.

[cassandrawinona]

Ex-Mormon here, I’m 51 and left the church about 10 years ago after leaving my marriage in which I’d tried to live the full Mormon tradition-wife lifestyle for 13 years. I can tell you now that Mormon homes and families with gazillions of kids are CHAOS, and no average Mormon mum has time to be cooking like that with a house with kids and babies but they try to look like the perfect mum. I’ve seen this in the church all before, women trying to look perfect and be perfect but being super stressed under the surface. Don’t believe it’s perfect for a second, the perfectionism expected from Mormon women is insane, Mormon mums are so stressed, you have no idea.

And the difference between her and a lot of other influencers putting on this perfect facade is that she’s promoting a toxic cult (Mormonism is absolutely a cult) in which women are treated as second class citizens and expected to repress themselves in order to serve the authority of the church, it’s toxic af.

[stringsgalore]

I’m a homemaker and I cook from scratch the things that irritate me about these videos is 1) they never tend to show how chaotic it can be and 2) you know how much time you waste trying to video these things. My friends have been trying to get me to make a YouTube for years and I’m like that would add hours to my day and make it a job which is not the point of me leaving the workforce to be a full time homemaker

[mimi-ytgq]

She has a big team helping her. She is making several videos in one day. They don't live like this everyday. RIGHT???

[almoYO]

1. I like imagining the piles of messes shoved outside of the camera view.
2. I don’t know ANY kids that can wait for FREAKING CEREAL TO BE MADE!

[theweyrd]

She plays the perfect housewife who goes above and beyond with a soothing voice and absolute poise. It’s a show, just like everybody else’s highlight reels.

[AliceinJapanaland]

She's got 3 kids. All very young. It's not at all likely that she's actually dressing up like that, setting up and cooking all of this while her kids are all magically napping at the same time. She's definitely got a nanny or something she hasn't mentioned to take all this time away from them to set up and film her tiktoks. People have to just remember that what she's showing is in no way representative of reality, it's just a highly stylized photo shoot for Kitchenaid or whatever 😅

That said, her saying things that makes it all sound spontaneous and "I just woke up like this" is really I think what irritates everyone. It comes across as intentionally deceptive rather than merely artistic representation

[marieneu]

This is what I know about the Mormon religion… my intern got engaged to a Mormon and she transitioned to a Mormon so they could get married and so she would be approved by his parents. Her parents had to watch from beyond the gates, to see their daughter walk into the Mormon temple to get married, they weren’t allowed to be with her. How sad is that???

[DonnaLena]

A few people have pointed out that she’s to be commended for not using views of her children for views. Use this energy to go after family bloggers - there are many of them out there who would benefit from this kind of scrutiny.

[Paco.Sinbad]

What toddler is going to calmly wait for their mom to take 2 hours to make them homemade cereal.. there’s NO way she doesn’t have a nanny feeding her kids while she does this

[kittykat]

Aside from being Mormon, what’s the common theme between these two women… They are both wealthy and have help. Likely, people only show you what they want you to see they don’t see everything else! When you have money, you have the time you have the tools to make it happen. Also, it sounds like they have a lot of family supporting them. People need to just except what it is and it’s a fantasy everybody on TikTok shows you what they want you to see!

[emilybusby]

To the girl at 16:16 - why is it so hard to believe that someone might have basic ingredients on hand, such as cocoa powder and brown sugar? Especially someone wealthy who loves to bake! I have no trouble believing that this person has these super simple and versatile ingredients on hand at all times. They’re the fundamental building blocks of almost everything you can bake.

[MK-Hogan]

It’s cooking in those outfits that’s killing me. 😂 The chick saying “I don’t just HAVE brown sugar in my house.” Well, why not? Families typically should keep cooking staples in their home because they’re cheap and you can make lots of food with them. Flour, sugar, salt, brown sugar, baking soda, and baking powder. Depending on what you like to cook, have additional things like vanilla extract, cocoa powder, oatmeal, oils, breadcrumbs, spices & seasonings, etc. They’re staples for a reason. They’re inexpensive and last a long time.

[ellarah]

My husband and I grew up Mormon but left the church shortly after we got married. We once visited his sister and her family for a weekend. We woke up and found his sister in the kitchen making a huge breakfast for the family. She had to have been up before the sun because she was making everything from scratch and it was a huge breakfast. We walked into the kitchen and said, you don't have to do that for us, we are perfectly fine with toast or something. She responded saying that she does this every morning and that she had done this ever since she got married, stating that her husband insisted on it. We were shocked! We asked her how she felt about it and she said with a smile that she wasn't used to it at first but ever since she got married her husband insisted that she do this saying that's what his mom did for him and he wants a wife and mother who will do that for his family. It was so disturbing. Baking from scratch is not the problem. It's the idea that a woman MUST do this as her role as a wife and mother. Mormonism does promote this ideal to an extent. The fact that my brother-in-law INSISTS that his wife bakes a large breakfast, lunch, and dinner for their family from scratch is disturbing. And this is why people have a problem with this kind of thing.

[MsAsianNinja]

Ice cream with olive oil and salt is actually a common Italian dessert! It's called "GELATO CON OLIO E SALE"
I've seen it on nice Italian restaurant menus in USA too

[shrubsteppers]

When I was a teen I lived with a family that had a lifestyle like Nara's and their house was pristine all the time, they managed to keep it that way by harshly punishing their children for PLAYING because it was messy. The parents also spent basically no time interacting with their kids outside of church. The kids has only one room they were allowed to play in (the attic) which was disgusting and infested with mice, but it kept the main part of the house museum clean for when guests came over. That's why I have a problem with these kinds of influencers. Because maybe, like you said, they're totally normal people/parents when the cameras are off, or maybe they're neglectful and abusive parents who view their children as property.

[montanaroberts-newallo]

I feel that as a chef, this is completely doable. She's a model, he's a model, they like to dress nice and look good, she looks great... while prepaing her family's meals...and if she cooks like this, I'm sure her family is accustomed to her cooking time which can easily range from 2-6hrs per meal