Nara Aziza Smith has a few misconceptions about her life that she'd like to clear up. In a lengthy profile for GQ 's September issue, the 22-year-old viral TikTok sensation and her 26-year-old model husband, Lucky Blue Smith, reflect on their family's rapid rise on social media thanks to Nara's pristine TikTok videos. "What people think online is that we have housekeepers and cleaners and nannies and all of these things, when in reality it's just me and Lucky wanting a family and sharing our lives online," Nara says of her and Lucky's three children: Rumble Honey, Slim Easy and Whimsy Lou.
The model found her niche on the ever-growing landscape of social media with videos that range from showing her cooking meals for her family -- from scratch -- to casual vlogs of her traveling overseas for work while toting her newborn daughter . The seemingly aspirational domesticity of her videos has racked up 9 million TikTok followers and possibly as many critics. Among the many opinions that the internet has formed about Nara and Lucky's "perfect" life, the idea that she is a toxic "tradwife" pushing the gender roles of the 1950s and the Mormon lifestyle is the most prevalent.
The German-born model has even been likened to Hannah Neeleman , the Juilliard-trained ballerina turned mother of eight and mommy blogger. Neeleman has 9 million followers on Instagram under the name Ballerina Farm and has been dubbed "Queen of the Tradwives." For those who aren't as knowledgeable on the subcultu.