{"id":737817,"date":"2026-07-01T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:27:24","slug":"nara-smiths-two-year-old-daughter-was-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737817\/","title":{"rendered":"Nara Smith\u2019s Two-Year-Old Daughter Was Diagnosed With Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4fbeb145ac7a8ac54fb476b4a4b68044c6-nara-smith.rvertical.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"Clarins\u2019 \u2018The Night of Extra\u2019 Beauty Event, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 20 Mar 2026\" width=\"330\" height=\"412\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Chelsea Lauren\/Shutterstock\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmr2hi6eq000i0ifd2pnyxrbq@published\" data-word-count=\"24\">In a video posted to social media on Wednesday, Nara Smith shared that her 2-year-old daughter, Whimsy, was diagnosed with cancer late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmr2hj1zz000z3b7c08mxtyf6@published\" data-word-count=\"62\">In the two-minute video, Nara recalled taking her daughter to the ER and then to the pediatrician\u2019s office, before being referred to a children\u2019s hospital. After multiple tests, Nara said, the doctors told her and her husband, Lucky Blue Smith, that Whimsy had cancer. They were told that the disease had spread and that their daughter needed to begin chemotherapy treatments immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmr2hjvvt001a3b7cyupp7rv5@published\" data-word-count=\"97\">Nara noted that, on top of spending time at the hospital with Whimsy, she\u2019s postpartum and raising three other children. (Nara and Lucky are also parents to Rumble, Slim, and Fawnie.)\u00a0Balancing it all has been a daily struggle. Her professional life is also moving quickly \u2014 she recently announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/nara-smith-announced-her-cookbook-homemade.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019s releasing a cookbook<\/a> and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/nara-smith-acting-debut.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cast in an upcoming film<\/a>. \u201cSome days are a little easier, some days are really hard, and all I can do is try my best and show up in all those areas in the best way that I can,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmr2hk45c001g3b7chktih2jl@published\" data-word-count=\"59\">\u201cThroughout all of this, I\u2019ve been on a plethora of forums, social media, also talked to parents and family in the hospital, and all of that combined really brought me a lot of comfort and alleviated the feeling of loneliness for me,\u201d Nara said in her video. \u201cWe wanted to share this to hopefully bring someone else that comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>          Stay in touch.<\/p>\n<p>The latest in style, self, culture, and power in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Chelsea Lauren\/Shutterstock In a video posted to social media on Wednesday, Nara Smith shared that her 2-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[687,7568,690,88,69901],"class_list":["post-737817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cancer","tag-celebrity-children","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-nara-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}