Getting lost in Latina trad wife TikTok
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
During a flurry of election-related anxiety, Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido re-downloaded TikTok and fell down a very specific rabbit hole: Latina trad wife content. Videos of women waking up at three in the morning, making “lonche” for their husbands and espousing traditional lifestyles – have become popular and gone viral on social media. In the first episode of a three-part collaboration with Latino USA, Imperfect Paradise goes behind the scenes with one particular so-called trad wife, Lupita Duarte, to understand what her motivations, politics and aspirations can tell us about the cultural moment.
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| 0:32.0 | If you're on the internet, you've probably seen a rise in a certain kind of social media video. |
| 0:37.3 | I know I have. Here's everything |
| 0:40.2 | I prep for my husband for the next two days. Tradwives. The definition of a trad wife is not nearly |
| 0:46.4 | someone who stays at home, but who romanticizes it, where we are looking back not only to the way |
| 0:52.6 | things worked in the 50s, |
| 0:56.9 | but the values that families had in the 50s. They are wives and mothers making beautiful, elaborate meals for their husbands and children, |
| 1:02.5 | sometimes even wearing designer dresses. |
| 1:05.4 | The internet has been quick to call them tradwives, |
| 1:08.7 | women who advocate for traditional gender roles, and some of them are Latinas. |
| 1:13.6 | Heybona! |
| 1:15.6 | That this man was to handoj in the fogon and me to get to get at 4 o'a-mina and to put the leg and to bring all and bring all the tortillas the man. |
| 1:22.6 | Today on Imperfect Paradise from LA Studios, a special collaboration with Latino USA hosted by Maria Inojosa. |
| 1:31.7 | And we are going deep with a viral Latina tradwife. |
| 1:39.4 | So, Antonio, we used to work together. |
| 1:42.2 | The first time Donald Trump was elected, we were actually |
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