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Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children)

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H annah Neeleman was pregnant with her eighth child and she had two due dates. The first was for a baby, obviously. The second, just under two weeks later, was for a beauty pageant. Neeleman had been crowned Mrs American in August 2023 at a Las Vegas mega-casino and resort, so she was invited back to the city to compete in Mrs World, parading around the stage in a swimsuit and 5in heels, shoulders back and hip popped, spray-tanned, glistening — and 12 days postpartum. Obviously. “I had known it was coming,” says Neeleman, 34, sitting in her kitchen in rural Utah, two of her children literally swinging off her long golden hair. “So I had prepared.” During the pregnancy it took brute strength, guts and bravery to make sure she could eventually look so perfectly pretty. She kept fit, weightlifting before her children woke up. She had ice baths, lowering herself into the irrigation ditches on the farm. And she took iron supplements to speed up the healing. On January 2 this year Flora was

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