Nara Smith Reveals Daughter Whimsy, 2, Is Battling Cancer and Starting Chemo

Influencer Nara Smith is opening up about her 2-year-old daughter Whimsy's health battle.

"There's no easy way to say this but late last year our daughter Whimsy got diagnosed with cancer," the content creator, 24, shared in a new Instagram reel posted on Tuesday, June 30, detailing how she and husband model Lucky Blue Smith found out. "When we saw something suspicious on her, we took her to the ER and they didn't quite know what to make of it."

"When we took her into our pediatrician, I just remember him going really quiet and calm … My heart dropped in that moment," she continued. "I don't know whether it was my gut telling me something or just a mom's intuition, but the first thing that I felt was she has cancer."

The couple, who also share daughter Rumble Honey, 5, son Slim Easy, 4, and 9-month-old daughter Fawnie Golden, took Whimsy to a children's hospital for further testing. (Lucky is also dad to daughter Gravity shared with ex Stormi Bree.)

"After a lot of X-rays, ultrasounds and finally a biopsy, they immediately called us and said that she had cancer, told us it had spread and that she needs to come and start chemo treatments immediately," Nara said.

Nara shared that it's been a difficult chapter for their family to navigate, noting they have been focused on Whimsy's well-being. "A lot of you have probably realized that I've been posting a little less and this is the reason why," she added. "Having found all of this out and navigating this while postpartum, also loving and caring for our other kids at home, also being in the hospital with Whimsy a lot and balancing work on top of that has been really challenging."

The Homemade author said she's been taking it one day at a time, revealing, "Some days are a little easier, some days are really hard." Nara continued, "All I can do is try my best and show up in all those areas in the best way that I can."

Nara's update came two years after she became the face of the internet's "trad wife" movement - which glorifies traditional stay-at-home mom duties.

In July 2025, the model said she "sometimes" struggles with her online presence as the internet sees her as the "poster child" for the movement.

"There's nothing truly traditional about us as a couple, apart from maybe that we chose to have kids young and get married young. But apart from that, we split chores 50/50," she explained. "There's things that Lucky does that I guess traditional men wouldn't do. 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."

"And 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," Nara clarified. "Which is, I guess, not traditional in their mind."

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This story was originally published July 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM.