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Japanese No. Nara Smith said in a TikTok video on June 10, 2025: “I’m not Mormon.” Her husband, the model Lucky Blue Smith, grew up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah. In March 2024 she had described herself as “not in any way a hardcore Mormon.”
What has Nara Smith said about her religion?
Smith is a model born in 2001 in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and raised in Frankfurt, Germany. She moved to the United States at 18. Between late 2023 and early 2024 her videos of cooking elaborate meals from scratch went viral, and some followers accused her of spreading “Mormon propaganda.”
She answered them in a get-ready-with-me video on TikTok in March 2024. According to The Independent, which reported the video on March 5, 2024, she said: “I know that my religion is a very hot topic on the internet.” She went on: “I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m still learning and figuring out my own faith. I’m not in any way a hardcore Mormon or anything like that. I don’t wear garments. I didn’t get married in the temple.” She said she and her husband had very different upbringings, and added: “Both me and my husband are on our own journeys and figuring out how we want to raise our kids.”
In June 2025, while expecting her fourth child, she was more direct. “No, I’m not having this many kids because I’m Mormon,” she said in a TikTok video on June 10, reported by E! News the next day. “I’m not Mormon. I just always wanted to be a young mom and do everything while I was really young. And I think that’s just a personal preference for me.”
Neither video says whether she was ever baptized into the church. In the first she spoke of “my religion” while still working out her faith; in the second she said she is not Mormon.
What are garments, and who can marry in a temple?
Both practices she mentioned belong to members who have made covenants in a temple. Adult Latter-day Saints who receive the temple ceremony called the endowment wear a simple undergarment beneath their ordinary clothes for the rest of their lives. The church calls it “a daily physical reminder of their covenant relationship with God” and connects it with the “holy garments” that God told Moses to make for his brother Aaron and the priests who served in the tabernacle (Exodus 28:2).
Only faithful members of the church may marry in a temple. A member may marry someone who does not belong to the church, but that ceremony cannot take place in a temple. Smith married Lucky Blue Smith on February 21, 2020, in a small ceremony on a California beach.
Is Lucky Blue Smith Mormon?
He was raised in the church. Lucky Blue Smith grew up in Spanish Fork, Utah, and moved with his family to Los Angeles to model. A 2015 profile in The Guardian called him “a 17-year-old Mormon model” and said “the Smiths are Mormons,” but reported that the subject of religion was off-limits in the interview. The Independent described him in March 2024 as “a Mormon and a model” and a Utah native who grew up in the church.
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