After spending years building audiences and influencer careers showcasing traditional gender roles, some of the earliest so-called tradwives are now denouncing the category, including those who say they never claimed the label for themselves in the first place. While this could be seen as a shift away from conservative influencers, a new crop of teenage tradwives is already waiting to prove that notion wrong.

Influencers dropping the label
Despite having built much of her more than 12 million followers on TikTok through an “outlandish portrayal of domestic perfection,” model and influencer Nara Smith (pictured above with her husband, Lucky) has made waves after “vehemently” disavowing the tradwife label on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, said Jessica Grose at The New York Times. And she’s not the only popular tradwife who has veered clear of the terminology. In June, Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman admitted that she “steers clear of conversations around tradwives,” said Vanity Fair.

For some, the sudden shift can be tied to tradwives being regarded as MAGA-coded. It’s no longer “considered cool” to be “tacitly embracing the Trumpian vision,” said Grose. 

The next generation
There’s a new cohort of “young, often teenage, married influencers,” said Vanity Fair. They have gone viral in the last few months by “mimicking the content formula perfected by their tradwife forebears.”

The lifestyle choices of “teen tradwives” are “certainly not reflective of the country as a whole,” especially as Gen Z women are still “going to college and entering the workforce at a higher rate than their male counterparts,” said Isabel Bekele at Dazed. Still, the fact that these videos “exist and are gaining traction at all” feels indicative of the “current cultural dissonance” in the U.S. 

Smith may not be a tradwife, but that “doesn’t mean that the movement is going anywhere,” whether that’s due to the country’s “shift to the right,” the internet’s “obsession with hate-watching,” the algorithm’s “tendency to reward extreme content” or all of the above, said Bekele. With or without the first-era influencers, tradwives will “continue to exist.” 

Most people “guess” that eight hours is the optimal amount of sleep, but a study published in the journal Nature has found that the “sweet spot” is rather less, said Allie Hare, a consultant in sleep medicine, at The Telegraph. And “falling short or exceeding” this “precise window” is “linked with poorer brain, heart and immune health.”

What does the research say?
The ideal amount of nightly sleep is between six hours and 24 minutes and seven hours and 48 minutes, according to researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan. Getting this amount of shut-eye is associated with a lower risk of early death and disease, and insufficient or excessive sleep may be “markers of poorer overall health across the body,” said the study.

Previous research has found that getting too much or too little sleep is “largely linked to aging and the pathological burden of the brain,” said lead author Junhao Wen in the study. But this new research “goes further” and shows that it’s also “associated with faster aging in nearly every organ.”

Is it different for men and women?
Women “seem to do better with a little longer,” said Marie-Pierre St.-Onge, the director of Columbia University’s sleep research center, to The Washington Post. They need “15 to 20 minutes” more sleep than men, which reflects sleep durations reported by the “general population” that “tend to be slightly longer” for women.

So everyone should be getting 7 hours?
There are conflicting theories. “Individual needs” theories hold that there’s no universal ideal because different genetics, age, health and activity levels influence each person’s optimal amount of sleep. And “adaptive or evolutionary” theories contend that the correct amount of sleep varies according to the season of the year, workload, stress and illness.

But we “might be overthinking it,” said The Guardian. Sleep is “important and fascinating” for scientists to explore, but “surely for the rest of us” it’s “best left mysterious.” There’s “so little we can do” to reach the “ideal” amount of unconsciousness, so “knowing precisely how bad that is for us is unhelpful.”

Giant panda Katyusha celebrates her 3rd birthday with a bamboo cake at Moscow Zoo. The first of her species ever born in Russia, she is among about 800 giant pandas in captivity worldwide, while around 1,800 remain in the wild. 
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For every traveler who wants to kick back and relax on their vacation, there’s another who refuses to sit still. These hotels and experiences are for the active voyager who is never too far from their golf clubs, knows where all the best tennis courts are and is always game for a new activity.

Play padel at Adare Manor, Ireland
Pickleball had its moment, and now it’s padel’s time to shine. A mix of tennis and squash, this racket sport is growing in popularity. Once the ancestral home of the Earls of Dunraven, the grand Adare Manor sits in a “secluded” area, and its many activities on top of padel, like fishing and falconry, are “fit for Irish nobility,” said Forbes.

Get high up at Miraval Arizona, Tucson
Take a flying leap and go out on a limb — safely, of course. While on the property’s Challenge Course, you can swing through the air, climb up a giant ladder, cross a tightrope and elevated platforms, and zipline. The course “encourages you to step out of your comfort zone both physically and mentally” and is “designed for personal growth,” said Condé Nast Traveler. 

Explore trails at Río Perdido, Costa Rica
Guests have access to a vast network of solid rock trails for mountain biking (pictured above) that twist and turn through dry forest and a thermal canyon. Afterward, they can wind down in the property’s naturally heated thermal river and mineral pools covered by a canopy of lush tropical foliage.