A 19-year-old “trad wife” influencer is speaking out about what femininity means to her. Savanna Stone shares videos on Tik Tok of her traditional wife role and encourages other women to embrace traditional gender roles. In one viral video, she discusses dressing nicely for her husband and making him meals without nagging. Speaking with Fox News Digital, Stone addressed what inspired her to embrace the trad wife lifestyle.

“I had this moment before I got married and, through a lot of conversations with my husband now to where I realized, you know what, I just want to be a traditional woman. I want to stay at home, be a stay-at-home wife. I want to stay home with my kids one day. I want to rebuild a nuclear family because the left and modern feminism has truly tried to destroy that,” said Stone, who married at 18. A traditional stay at home wife and mother lifestyle, however, wasn’t always something she planned. “I was very feminist in high school, actually. I was quite liberal. Growing up throughout high school, I believed the lies that modern feminism taught, and I actually wanted to go to law school and get a law degree,” she said.

“I just quickly realized the lies that modern feminism pushes on young women, that we have to graduate high school, and then we have this huge career, and we have to go to college and get a degree and grind and kind of get our life together and experiment in the dating pool, if you will, until we find our husband. And then you still want to work because, you know, you have to be independent, and you can’t rely on a man.” Despite embracing being a trad wife, Stone doesn’t want to push a one-size-fits-all lifestyle. “You get to define what your life looks like. You get to define what your career looks like and what your whole life looks like.” For Stone, that means staying and home and eventually one day having children. For other women, that could look like having a career outside the home.

The trad wife trend has been controversial, even in conservative circles. Some trad wives are criticized as being more like “cosplayers.” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” spoke about the trend last year. After noting there are some trad wife accounts she follows, Stuckey added, “But not all “trad wife” content is Biblical. Some of it is straight-up 1950s fetishized cosplay. Some of it is just capitalizing on the aesthetics of homesteading without any moral substance. Like all social media trends, it has vapid and, yes, harmful elements to it.” Others criticized “Patriarchy Hannah” after the trad wife account was discovered to be completely fake. “‘Patriarchy Hannah’ isn’t the only ‘trad-wife’ with a fake online person,” wrote Samuel Sey of Slow to Write. “She’s an extreme example, but it’s obvious that some trad-wife influencers are just cosplayers taking advantage of desperate women and men with weird fetishes. There are some good trad-wife influencers. But many of the “trad-lives” you see online are performances, not real life.”