{"id":669746,"date":"2026-07-02T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:15:08","slug":"nara-smith-daughters-cancer-diagnosis-prompts-wave-of-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669746\/","title":{"rendered":"Nara Smith: Daughter&#8217;s cancer diagnosis prompts wave of support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Support has flooded in for US influencer Nara Smith after she revealed that her two-year-old daughter has cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The TikToker, a mother-of-four, said Whimsy-Lou was diagnosed late last year after she and husband Lucky Blue Smith spotted &#8220;something suspicious&#8221; and took the toddler to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the couple were referred to a paediatrician for tests which confirmed their child had cancer that had spread to other parts of her body. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celebrities including singer Raye and influencer Haley Baylee were among those who posted well-wishes underneath Smith&#8217;s video about the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her two-and-a-half minute video, posted on Wednesday, has been viewed by more than 25 million people across Instagram and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In it, the 24-year-old says: &#8220;After a lot of X-rays, ultrasounds and a biopsy they immediately called us and said she had cancer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They told us it had spread and that she needs to come and start chemo treatment immediately.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commenting under Smith&#8217;s Instagram post, award-winning singer-songwriter Raye wrote: &#8220;My beautiful superwoman friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow British artist Leona Lewis said she was &#8220;sending so much love&#8221;, accompanied by three love hearts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Popular New York influencer Haley Baylee added: &#8220;Sending so much love and strength to your family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on TikTok, US artist Charlie Puth said &#8220;the whole word&#8221; was with Smith and her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our prayers are with you,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support has flooded in for US influencer Nara Smith after she revealed that her two-year-old daughter has cancer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}