TikTok Creator Nara Azia Smith Brushes Off Tradwife Label: 'I'm a Working Mom'

Don’t get too comfortable calling TikTok creator Nara Aziza Smith a "tradwife." The model, wife, and mother of three slams that title in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar.

Over lunch with the publication’s culture editor, Bianca Betancourt, Smith, 22, explained her thoughts on being dubbed a "tradwife." The term refers to traditional housewives who adhere to stereotypical gender roles for women, like homemaking and cooking. Although Smith is seen in TikTok videos regularly cooking for herself, her husband Lucky Blue Smith and their three children, she quickly dismissed being a part of the social media phenomenon.

"That’s one of the narratives that I have a really hard time wrapping my head around: the trad wife, whatever it is,” she said. “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."

She continued, “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.”

Recently, Smith’s TikTok buzz has landed her brand deals with makeup brands Hourglass Cosmetics and Charlotte Tilbury, along with Marc Jacobs, promoted by a TikTok of herself “baking” a luxury handbag. Explaining that she “grew up in a household that wasn’t wealthy at all,” Smith’s commercial hustle overweighs the accusations of being a tradwife.