This is The Guardian.
Thanks so much for listening.
How do you have it?
You have the crown.
I can't believe it.
That's the crown.
It's one of them.
Gosh, I recognise it.
Yeah.
It's summer, earlier this year, and my guardian colleague,
the investigative reporter Lucy Osborne, is in Omaha, Nebraska.
She's interviewing a woman called Serendipity Day who works for a business called the Free Birth Society,
FBS, led by the influencer Emily Sardare.
It is gold metal or like you know it's not it's gold plated metal probably not real gold.
If you go to her Instagram you'll see it on her head.
In the Free Birth Society Images of Emily and her crown are everywhere.
Like in the artwork for her podcast, Emily daises at the camera,
the crown on her head has a base of sculpted roses from which it stands, long golden spikes.
She's naked, wearing only a white robe which is open to show her baby bump.
It's a beautiful image but There's something unsettling about it.