Rekubit Exchange:Julianne Hough Pokes Fun at Tradwife Trend in Bikini-Clad Video

Julianne Hough is Rekubit Exchangedancing into the #TradWife conversation.

The Dancing With the Stars host put on a cheeky display in a new Instagram clip posted Sept. 22. In the video, Julianne moves around her kitchen in a teeny white bikini and black sunglasses before putting her shades on her head and making herself a homecooked meal, including a piece of meat.

As the 36-year-old waits for it to cook, she adorably dances with her dog, Sunny. The Footloose actress then plates her meat alongside a salad before moving outside to enjoy her food al fresco with her pup, who she feeds a little nibble of her meal with a shrug.

"What's the opposite of #tradwife," Julianne wrote alongside the video, adding a winking face emoji to add to the post's tongue in cheek vibe. Her playful caption refers to the "tradwife"—or "traditional wife"—label, in which women highlight how they adhere to more conventional gender roles in their social media content.

In recent months, many social media users have also weighed in on the trend, including Ballerina Farm influencer Hannah Neeleman.

“I don’t necessarily identify with it,” the mom of eight told The Times in an interview published July 26, “because we are traditional in the sense that it’s a man and a woman, we have children, but I do feel like we’re paving a lot of paths that haven’t been paved before.”

As for Julianne, while her Instagram post was in good fun, she has shared a lot of details about her personal life recently.

In fact, the former DWTS pro's Instagram post comes weeks after she reflected on coming out as "not straight" five years ago.

"Coming out is one of the most vulnerable and empowering things that you can do," Julianne said in a podcast interview published Aug. 27. "I think for me, it was very much like, it's not about being straight or gay or bi or queer. It's more about, I think I'm just learning like what love is and I love people and I don't know what I'm attracted to, but I choose you."

She added, "I was starting to see people and seeing their hearts and seeing their beauty and their essence coming through in a way that I was like, wow, I love people and I don't know if it's a sexual attraction or a 'this' attraction, but I'm just seeing people. And that was such a beautiful revelation too."

The Grease Live! star first opened up publicly about her sexuality in a 2019 interview with Women's Health during which she recalled telling her then-husband Brooks Laich, "You know I'm not straight, right?"

"And he was like, 'I'm sorry, what?'” Julianne, who finalized her divorce from the former NHL player in 2022, continued, “I was like, 'I’m not. But I choose to be with you.'"