Nara Smith Addresses Misunderstandings About Her Family

Despite the many online opinions surrounding Nara Smith, her husband Lucky Blue Smith and their performative traditional lifestyle, the couple says they aren’t concerned about the outside noise.

“I think [people] just project whatever they’re feeling onto us because it might be easier for them,” Nara, 23, exclusively told Us Weekly during a recent Double Serum Generation 9 launch event. “We just do our thing. And if it resonates, it does. And, if it doesn’t, that’s fine.”

The viral influencer has posted videos of herself cooking for Lucky, 26, and their children on TikTok since 2022 to an audience of 10 million followers. This led Nara to fall into one of the apps’ niches as a so-called “trad wife” — short for “traditional wife.” However, there’s been criticism online about Nara pushing the message of being a conservative, traditional woman — someone whose job is being a stay-at-home mom who cooks and cleans for her family.

There have been comments made about her Mormon religion and how that apparently influences her trad wife lifestyle, to which Nara set the record straight. “I know that my religion is a very hot topic on the internet,” she said in a March 2024 TikTok. “I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m still learning and figuring out my own faith. I’m not in any way a hardcore Mormon or anything like that. I don’t wear garments. I didn’t get married in the temple.”

Her husband — who is also signed to IMG — isn’t giving much thought about the criticism either. “To be honest with you, we really don’t pay too much attention,” Lucky told Us.

Lucky and Nara met when they were both models appearing in shows during Milan Fashion Week in 2019. After only six months of dating, the couple married in February 2020 when Nara was 18. They share three kids, Rumble Honey, Slim Easy and Whimsy Lou.

The couple are planning to move sometime in the near future from their home in Texas to Connecticut to not only have more living space but to reportedly be closer to major cities and more work-related opportunities.

“We didn’t grow up in Texas. We’ve only been here about two years now. And so we don’t have that love for it that a native would have,” Lucky told Us.

However, Lucky is excited for the family’s next chapter, even though they will miss certain things about their life in Texas. “We’ve definitely had some fun times here. The people here, that’s something I would probably miss the most,” he said. “The hospitality and the people.”

With reporting by Charlotte Moore