TikTok Tradwife Nara Smith Talks Choosing Motherhood Over Partying: ‘Been There, Done That, & It Just Wasn’t for Me'
With three young kids to take care of — and 10.4 million TikTok followers to entertain — at just 23 years old, tradwife influencer Nara Smith is very busy. Between making her own bubblegum or Nutella from scratch, modeling at runways around the world, and making content with her husband and fellow model Lucky Blue Smith, there’s probably not much time for anything else, like going out to clubs or hanging with friends like most 20-somethings might do. But to hear Nara tell it, her life and recipes are actually “easy” — and she just prefers parenting over partying anyway.
Nara looked gorgeous in pastel-colored gowns from Balenciaga, Michael Kors, and other high-couture in a new interview with Elle, where she addressed some of her common complaints on her videos.
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“I always giggle at comments that say, ‘You should be in the club living it up,’” Nara told the outlet. “I was traveling the world by myself at 14. I went to clubs when I was 16,” she continued, explaining that she was born in South Africa, raised in Germany, and started modeling at 14. “You can drink a lot earlier in Germany. I’ve been there, done that, and it just wasn’t for me.”
Unlike other young moms who might not know what they’re missing out on, so to speak, Nara does know, and she likes this life better. The 23-year-old met Lucky in 2019, and they got serious fast. “When he asked me to be his girlfriend, I didn’t say yes. I literally said, ‘I take this very serious,’” Nara said. “And he was like, ‘Me too.’”
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Nara also rejected the idea that her tradwife content is regressing feminism. She revealed that she and Lucky split childcare for their kids evenly, where she works on her TikTok content in the second half of the day. “She edits her videos after getting her flock to sleep and tries to be in bed by 10 P.M., but just as often, she’s still texting her manager at midnight as ideas come to her,” the outlet wrote. It doesn’t explain how she handles the next morning with her kids Rumble Honey, born in Nov. 2020, Slim Easy, born in 2022, and Whimsy Lou, born in 2024. Does her husband handle breakfast duties? Does she wake up early then take a nap later? What about when they are both working or flying across the world for Paris Fashion Week?
Of course, sharing actual parenting tips or advice to help the common mom isn’t really on-brand for Nara. Like she said later in the interview about her incredibly complex recipes, “I genuinely think they’re easy. I don’t think they’re hard at all.” What’s a mom who can sometimes barely make a regular peanut butter and jelly sandwich supposed to think when someone like this says everything is easy and great?
In an Aug. 2024 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Nara said making her content doesn’t feel like work. “I never know what to say when people ask me [what I do], because technically, yes, I create content,” she said. “But then I’m just living my life and sharing that with people, which a lot of people do.”
She later almost contradicted herself, saying that people don’t always see the work that goes on behind-the-scenes. “That’s one of the narratives that I have a really hard time wrapping my head around: the tradwife, whatever it is. You don’t see me getting on a plane, hopping to New York, modeling, coming back — all while I have a newborn — paying bills, filming content, getting my kids dressed. Being put into a certain box, just because people think that I’m slaving away, is so weird to me. I’m a working mom who gets to go about her day in a very different way than [someone with] a normal nine-to-five job would.”
Nara summed it up by saying the same thing to both outlets: “I’m just a girl,” as if she wants to minimize all the hard work she does. Sure, sure, as long as we can all agree that being “just a girl” means working your butt off to provide for your family, embracing your femininity and passions, navigating fame like it’s no big deal, and being a present and caring mother, then yes, we couldn’t agree more.
Before you go, check out these celebrities who had kids before they turned 25.
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