Nara Smith: Stop Calling Me a Tradwife

**Alex Cooper** (0:00)
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It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Her Daddy.
Nara Smith, welcome to Her Daddy.

**Nara Smith** (3:19)
I'm so excited.

**Alex Cooper** (3:21)
I am so excited to talk with you today. You are one of the most talked about people on the internet, whether you are making potentially skittles from scratch.

**Nara Smith** (3:33)
We're getting there.

**Alex Cooper** (3:34)
We're getting there. You're in full couture in the kitchen. You really are at the center of so many conversations when it comes to womanhood, motherhood, family. And so I just, I can't wait to get into all of it with you today.

**Nara Smith** (3:47)
Let's do it.

**Alex Cooper** (3:48)
Nara, recently you shared online that your daughter, Whimsy, was diagnosed with cancer.
And first, I just want to say, I am so sorry for what you and your daughter and your family are going through. I truly cannot imagine. So just all the condolences sent your way. Something that I really was struck by is that when you shared online, you kind of talked about how you were hoping that sharing would allow other families to maybe feel less alone and be able to feel like there are other people going through what you're going through. And I thought that was really beautiful. And I hope that maybe our conversation today can give a little bit of that to anyone watching too.

**Nara Smith** (4:28)
Yeah, I hope that too. I think there's something so beautiful and grounding and supportive about having a community. And you feel like when something bad happens in your life, it's usually a very isolating experience to where you feel like no one else would get it, or no one really understands, or all these different things. But the more time I spend in the hospital and kind of seeking that community myself, the more I realized that there's actually a lot more parents going through the exact same thing, maybe in different ways, but essentially the same thing as me. And I think also by sharing it, it opened up that whole world to me to where my DMs were flooded with parents going through the same thing and being really consolidated almost by what I posted.