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Why We’re Still Obsessed With Nara Smith

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Nara Smith or at least come across one of her aesthetic recipe videos online. Who is she? Why does everything she do go viral? And why can’t we get enough of her content?

By Ella Carroll-Smith4 min read
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When you picture a stay-at-home mother of three children under 3 in your head, you probably do not picture someone who looks like Nara Smith. Most of us associate motherhood with chaos. Fisher Price toys strewn across the living room like a plastic war zone, broken crayons littering the dining room table, frozen fish sticks baking in the oven – these are the things our society has associated with child-rearing, but it doesn’t have to be this way.