Imagine the scene: you’ve woken up to your children asking if they can have cereal for breakfast. It’s 7am and you’re heavily pregnant. Do you throw some Nesquik in a bowl and be done with it? No, you put on your silk dressing gown, apply a full face of make-up and style your hair into the perfect ‘clean girl’ bun before heading to your immaculate kitchen to get started on a fresh batch of baking.
In the occasional video, you’ll see her husband pop in to caress her pregnant belly. He happens to be, 25, who Millennials will remember from his meteoric rise to modelling fame in 2015, when his platinum blonde hair and bright blue eyes forged an obsessive fandom on blogging site Tumblr. Now, his TikTok content consists of styling videos, romantic montages of him and Nara plus mornings spent reading scriptures from theThat’s the other factor here: religion.
‘In America , our childcare situation is abysmal, there is no support for working families,’ Burke says. ‘Now there are so many women who are looking at these idealised versions of motherhood – or women to whom mothering isn’t mmediately associated with financial stress – and it’s so addictive to watch because it’s something we just can’t get right.