If you've heard the term "tradwife," chances are you've heard of Nara Smith. The 25-year-old influencer has become practically synonymous with the trend, thanks to her cooking videos of the veryyy elaborate meals she makes for her husband, Lucky Blue Smith, and their four children.
Whether she's documenting "what my husband eats in a day" or spending hours making homemade Skittles for her four kids, Nara has built a massive following by sharing glimpses of what seems like a very picturesque domestic life.
But the whole "tradwife" phenomenon has sparked plenty of controversy. People argue that influencers are selling women an unrealistic, romanticized version of domestic life that encourages them to give up their independence — all while making money promoting that very lifestyle themselves.
And while Nara has become one of the most recognizable faces associated with the trend, she's made it pretty clear that she doesn't consider herself part of it. In July 2025, she appeared on Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast, where she got candid about how frustrating it is to have people assume they know everything about her life just from watching her videos.
“This is where social media gets tricky for me personally — is it doesn’t matter how much I voice those things and try to make people understand that I am actually a full-time working mom, that they just don’t want to get it. They use me as this poster child of this, like, very traditional wife, and I’m not."
A year later, in July 2026, Nara was still setting the record straight. She aired her "tradwife" grievances during an aptly titled episode of Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast, "Nara Smith: Stop Calling Me a Tradwife."
Nara admitted to Alex that that she wasn't even familiar with the term "tradwife" before people started calling her one. Then, she read the definition of "tradwife" on her iPhone before concluding, "I'm none of that."
As Nara explained, she's a working mom who cooks because she wants to, not because she has to. And despite what her videos might suggest, she and Lucky split childcare and housework 50/50. "I find it very concerning," she told Alex, "that we need to put women in very specific, very narrow boxes in order to make sense of them."
And now, Nara is sharing another very personal decision that might surprise anyone who's made assumptions about her family life. At just 25 years old, the mom of four has revealed that she's done having kids — and plans to get her tubes tied.
She made the shocking confession during an Oct. 8 appearance on Emma Grede's Aspire podcast, saying: "We only talk about pregnancy and sometimes postpartum, very rarely, but we never talk about what comes after, and that is really, really hard. The toddlers, the tantrums, the reasoning, all the things — I don't want to do that in 10 years."
"I want to do that now," she continued, "which is why I had them back-to-back. I'm going through all of it at one time, and in 10 years, they're going to be old. I'm not starting from scratch. There is no way," she said. "I'm going to get my tubes tied. I'm done."
Naturally, many people felt like this came pretty out of left field. "The backtrack of the century," one joked, while another added, "Oh that will throw the trad wifeys into disarray."
All jokes aside, plenty of people applauded Nara for taking control of her own body and fertility.
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Though some did question why the responsibility to prevent future pregnancies fell on Nara if she and Lucky mutually decided they were done having kids.
One redditor commented, "Why couldn’t her man get a vasectomy? She’s the one who had to give birth multiple times and spend the equivalent of 3 years pregnant."
In a similar vein, another wrote, "Honestly, I feel like if you’ve given birth vaginally, your man should be the one to do the vasectomy. why go through a whole surgery when for him it’s just an outpatient procedure"
But obviously, we don't know what's happening behind closed doors.