Nara Smith says couples therapy gave her and her husband the tools to get through their daughter's cancer diagnosis

Nara Smith, 24, says going to couples therapy earlier a situation struck helped her and her husband, Lucky Blue Smith, navigate their daughter's crab diagnosis.

On Wednesday's section of "Call Her Daddy," Smith, a exemplary and TikTok creator known for her viral cooking-from-scratch videos, opened up astir the difficult play erstwhile her girl Whimsy Lou underwent chemotherapy.

Smith said she and her hubby didn't afloat process their daughter's test until the beingness effects of chemotherapy group in, including hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment and nausea.

"We started crumbling a small bit," Smith told podcast big Alex Cooper.

Smith and her hubby took turns leaning connected each other, pinch each stepping successful to assistance the different up whenever they felt they couldn't spell on, she said.

"When I had a difficult time pinch it, he picked maine up. When he had a difficult day, I picked him up, and we were like, 'Let's conscionable support going,'" Smith said. "It felt for illustration that crippled wherever you're tied to personification else, and you person to make it to the decorativeness statement together."

The mates besides has 3 different children: Rumble Honey, Slim Easy, and Fawnie Golden.

Looking back, going to couples therapy early successful their narration gave them the devices to navigate this play of their lives, Smith, whose contented is often associated pinch the "tradwife" aesthetic, said.

She added that she first suggested couples therapy because she knew they had grown up otherwise and wanted them to build "a beardown foundation" from the start.

Many group presume couples therapy is only for troubled relationships, but she doesn't spot it that way.

"Sometimes nothing's wrong, and you conscionable want to person the devices to person the champion life. I want to person the champion life successful each facet of my life, and that to maine comes pinch work," she said.

Smith said 1 of the main things she and her hubby learned was really to pass pinch each other, which "came successful really handy" during their daughter's treatment.

"Even though I mightiness person felt immoderate I felt, I created the abstraction for him to consciousness the measurement he felt, and for him to pass that pinch me, and for america to activity done that together and really beryllium heard by each other," she said.

Smith revealed successful an Instagram post successful early July that her girl had been diagnosed pinch crab precocious past year, though she did not disclose the type. At the clip of the post, her girl had already completed curen and was successful remission, an update Smith shared 2 weeks later.

Smith joins a increasing number of celebrities who person spoken openly astir the benefits of couples therapy.

In 2024, Rob Lowe said he and his wife, Sheryl Berkoff, spot couples counseling arsenic a measurement to support their relationship.

"It's for illustration taking your car successful and making judge the engine's moving great," he said.

In 2025, Manny Jacinto said the champion matrimony proposal he's ever gotten is to spell to couples therapy erstwhile things are good.

"It goes for therapy successful general. You don't want to beryllium going to couples therapy erstwhile you're successful a really bad spot because sometimes it mightiness beryllium excessively late," Jacinto said.