By Nadia Santiago

Updated 3 hours ago, July 1, 2026

Nara Smith doesn’t usually go quiet. The model and cooking-video creator built a big following on the rhythm of her near-daily posts, so the slowdown got noticed. On July 1, she explained it.

She shared that her and Lucky Blue Smith’s 2-year-old daughter, Whimsy, was diagnosed with cancer late last year and has been going through chemotherapy. “There is no easy way to say this or to talk about any of this,” she said at the top of the video.

Nara Smith at the Valentino show during Paris Fashion Week on March 9, 2025. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images. At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, Lucky Blue Smith and Nara Smith make an appearance at the “A Night Of Extra” Beauty Evening on March 20, 2026. Photo by Tommaso Boddi / Getty Images.

She walked through what happened: something suspicious on Whimsy, an ER visit that didn’t produce answers, then the pediatrician. “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,” she said. He sent them to the nearest children’s hospital, where x-rays, an ultrasound, and a biopsy confirmed it. Months of hospital time followed, all while she was postpartum and caring for her other young kids at home.

At Park Avenue Armory in New York City, Nara Smith and Lucky Blue Smith appeared at Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden launch event on April 16, 2026. Photo by Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images. Lucky Blue Smith and Nara Smith together at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles for a Clarins event in March 2025. Photo by Tommaso Boddi / Getty Images.

She was clear about why she was sharing any of it. “We wanted to share this to hopefully bring someone else that comfort,” she wrote, or to “incentivize you to go check something out that you’ve been avoiding.” She closed on the part she seemed to want to land most: “I hope that by sharing this I can bring someone a little bit of comfort and make you feel a little less alone.”

At Park Avenue Armory in New York City, Lucky Blue Smith and Nara Smith appeared together for the Tiffany & Co. Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden launch event on April 16, 2026. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images.

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