Nara Smith rejected the tradwife label in a recent conversation with Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy, saying the description does not fit her life. The 24-year-old influencer said people cast her as the face of a movement she never claimed.
Call Her Daddy and the label
“They kind of used me as the poster child for the tradwife movement, which was very bizarre to me,” Smith said. She said she had to look up the technical definition before pushing back on it: a woman who embraces or promotes a traditional model of marriage and family life, usually by prioritizing homemaking and primary caregiving.
Smith drew the line at that definition because, in her telling, she was never a homemaker. That is the part that changes the read on her videos: the cooking content made her look like a clean fit for the label, but she says the label was built on a shortcut rather than her actual routine.
TikTok and the tradwife tag
Smith has more than 12 million followers on TikTok, and her elaborate cooking videos — narrated in a soothing monotone — helped make her a recognizable example of a tradwife creator. She said she has pushed back on that narrative before, but it still stuck, which is why this interview matters now.
Tradwife content gained traction in 2020, mainly on TikTok and Instagram, as a romanticized vision of traditional gender roles. Smith’s comments cut against the simplified version of that trend: she said, “I’m a working mom. I am out in LA. I travel a lot. Sure, do I love cooking … but that’s a passion of mine and a hobby—it’s not something I need to be doing.”
Lucky Blue Smith at home
Smith also said she splits childcare work with Lucky Blue Smith, and that he prefers to clean the house himself. That detail matters because it separates the look of her content from the way she says her household actually runs. The internet label may be sticky, but her own description is less performative and more practical.
For readers, the useful takeaway is simple: Smith is asking to be understood as a working mom with a cooking hobby, not as a homemaker built around a single aesthetic. The remaining open question is how Smith and Lucky Blue Smith divide childcare and housework in practice beyond the broad outline she gave.
