Millie Bobby Brown Says Being a Trad Wife Isn’t Cushy: ‘You’re Picking Up Horse Sh*t’
Arturo Holmes
If you ever fantasized about leaving it all behind and moving to a farm, reigning “trad wife” Millie Bobby Brown has a warning: It involves a lot more sh*t than you could imagine — and she means that very literally.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Millie Bobby Brown, who's gearing up for the long-anticipated release of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, opened up about her current farm lifestyle and took the chance to dispel some myths about the so-called “simple life.”
ICYMI: In 2024, MBB married Jake Bongiovi, and the couple has since relocated to a farm in Georgia, where they care for their pets (including her beloved therapy poodle Winnie) alongside sheep, goats, cows, and donkeys — all while fostering dogs for Brown's animal rescue center, called Joey's Friends.
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While Brown's farm life might seem more than aspirational as a divisive “trad wife” content gains momentum on social media, the actor insists she is “not doing it for the aesthetic.” Because, in fact, the aesthetic in question is oftentimes a lot less idyllic than what most would picture.
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"If you’re not picking up horse sh*t or washing a cow with your bare hands, then that life is not made for you. At all," Brown explained to the publication. “I’m doing it because I love it," the actor also clarified. “There are maybe some trad wives out there doing it because it seems wholesome, but it is not.”
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Brown is, in fact, so committed to the lifestyle that she's begun taking veterinary classes to be able to take care of the animals on her farm herself. “I’m able to treat wounds, take their pulse, moderate blood pressure, things like that. I do all their medical records myself,” she told VF. “Now I just have to do my externship, which is like sitting in on surgeries and things like that. Adoption campaigns [on social media] are wonderful temporarily, but you really have to get in there and do the work to make a difference.”
Now, that does seem a lot more intense than, say, making a brioche bun from scratch.
Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue
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