Imperfect Paradise: Getting lost in Latina trad wife TikTok
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🗓️ 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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| 0:30.7 | If you're on the internet, you've probably seen a rise in a certain kind of social media video. |
| 0:36.3 | I know I have. |
| 0:40.1 | Here's everything I prep for my husband for the next two days. Tadwives. The definition of a trad wife is not merely someone who |
| 0:46.1 | stays at home, but who romanticizes it where we are looking back not only to the way things |
| 0:52.0 | worked in the 50s, but the values that families had in the 50s. |
| 0:56.0 | They are wives and mothers making beautiful, elaborate meals for their husbands and children, sometimes even wearing designer dresses. |
| 1:04.4 | The internet has been quick to call them tradwives, women who advocate for traditional gender roles. |
| 1:10.9 | And some of them are Latinas. |
| 1:13.4 | Webona. |
| 1:14.4 | That this man was landaujana, and me |
| 1:17.4 | took to get to land at the four of the morning and put her the leg and |
| 1:19.8 | bring everything and bring all right and bring all righties in |
| 1:25.3 | studios, a special collaboration with Latino USA hosted by Maria Inojosa. |
| 1:30.7 | And we are going deep with a viral Latina tradwife. |
| 1:38.4 | So, Antonio, we used to work together. |
| 1:41.7 | The first time Donald Trump was elected, we were actually in the same |
| 1:45.5 | newsroom here in New York City. Fast forward to 2024. I'm in New York. You're in L.A. |
| 1:52.8 | Yeah. And Donald Trump wins again. Latinos came out for this Republican candidate, winning 46% of their votes. |
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