Nara Smith Pushes Back on Being Trad Wife 'Poster Child,' Calls Narrative 'Odd'

The 23-year-old influencer says she's a full-time working mom despite what her critics say.

July 10, 2025

Nara Smith is once again pushing back against the internet’s obsession with labeling her a "trad wife" or “traditional wife.”

In a new interview for the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, Smith spoke about the criticism she receives for the life she’s chosen: marrying young, having kids early, while challenging the perception of being a “traditional wife.”

“People love projecting things onto me and kind of how I live my life, just because I cook for my husband [Lucky Blue Smith] because it's my love language and I love cooking,” said the 23-year-old influencer near the 53-minute mark in the video linked above.

“They project onto it that I'm in the kitchen and trapped and I'm just at home and he's the breadwinner and all of these things. And I'm like, ‘No, I work,’ I'm very busy. I travel almost every week, I have kids that I raise. I love being in the kitchen because it's a passion of mine, not because I have to,” she continued.

“It doesn't matter how much I voice those things and try to make people understand that I am actually a full-time working mom that they just don't want to get it,” Smith added. “They use me as this poster child of this, like, very traditional wife, and I'm not. There's nothing truly traditional about us as a couple apart from maybe that we chose to have kids young and get married young.”

Smith, who has nearly 12 million followers on her TikTok account, says they split chores equally. While she cooks, her husband Lucky Blue is responsible for cleaning, dressing the kids, and even doing their hair.

The influencer also expressed frustration that no matter how much she clarifies her reality, people online still cling to their assumptions about her family.

“It's odd and I feel like people see that side of my life and I voice that side of my life, but they still don't want to accept it,” Smith explained. “So I've just kind of learned to do me and whoever resonates with that great, if they don't, then there's nothing really I can do to change their minds.”

Last month, Smith and Blue, who have been married since 2020, announced they are expecting their fourth child together.

They share three older children—Rumble Honey, 4, Slim Easy, 3, and 1-year-old Whimsy Lou. Blue also has a daughter, Gravity, 8, from a past relationship.

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