Nara Smith Doesn’t Think Her Marriage Is ‘Traditional’
Nara Smith may widely be known as Tik Tok’s most glamorous tradwife, but she really doesn’t think she’s all that trad. While appearing on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast this week, TikTok’s resident Mormon sunscreen-maker said she doesn’t understand why people think her marriage to model Lucky Blue is traditional.
After a sprawling 50-minute conversation about food, fashion, and communication tools, Shetty asked Smith if she’d always planned on having kids so young. (She gave birth to her first child, Rumble Honey, when she was 19 years old in 2020 and is currently pregnant with the couple’s fourth.) Smith said she never really imagined herself as a young mom until she met her husband. “I’ve always been such a believer in having people make their own choices and never judging someone else based on how they choose to live their life and much rather celebrating them,” she said. “It was such a foreign concept to me that people would have a negative opinion on me choosing to start my life in that way, early on.”
Also foreign to Smith: the concept of her marriage looking old-fashioned to the general public. “The other day, someone brought it up to me, and they were like, ‘You have a very traditional way of life.’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean?’” Smith said. “We split chores. I work. My husband works. We have children. We split everything. I cook because I love to, not because I have to. Lucky cleans. There was nothing traditional.”
“There’s things that Lucky does that I guess traditional men wouldn’t do,” she added. “Like do the dishes or get the kids dressed or do their hair, or whatever it may be that people don’t associate with a traditional man.” Smith also theorized that “there’s things that I do, like having a full-time career and having Lucky be home watching the children while I travel for two weeks, which is, I guess, not traditional in their mind.”
Smith also insisted that she’s “not confined to the kitchen” and that she only spends this much time cooking things from scratch because it doesn’t feel like a chore to her.
You know who feels similarly? Hannah Neeleman, better known as Ballerina Farm, who recently invited Smith to milk cows and whisk up homemade pasta dough for their (combined) 11 children at her farm. When asked whether she considers herself a tradwife last year, Neeleman told the Times of London that she and her husband “are traditional in the sense that it’s a man and a woman, we have children,” but she believes “we’re paving a lot of paths that haven’t been paved before. So for me to have the label of a traditional woman, I’m kinda like, I don’t know if I identify with that.” Sounds like good conversation fodder for her next ice-cream-churning sesh with Nara.
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