South Africa: TikToker Nara Smith's Latest Cooking Video Could be her Most Outrageous Yet

South African-born model Nara Smith's tradwife-inspired TikTok posts are blowing up the internet, and not always for a good reason.

Real name Nara Aziza Pellman, the 22-year-old model made a name for herself on the social video-sharing platform and is currently sitting at 6 million followers.

Most of her content involves cooking, outfit changes and pandering to the tradwife aesthetic, much to the glee of her mostly male admirers.

But Nara's latest TikTok post may be her weirest yet.

In the video, which was liked more than 3.7 million times, she shared her recipe on how to make bubblegum from scratch, because her sister was in town and ran out of bubblegum, so she "just decided to make it for her."

South Africans were quick to jump into her comments section, making fun of a Mzansi favourite, Chappies Bubblegum.

Nara, who hails from Bloemfontein, has caught the ire of feminists and working mothers due to her affinity for posting tradwife content.

The term denotes a woman who believes in and practises patriarchal roles in marriage by giving up her career to take on a more traditional homemaking role, according to Wikipedia.

Late last year, she was forced to backtrack on a post where she discussed being a Mormon.

Married to Lucky Blue Smith, the couple share three children, Rumble Honey, Slim Easy and newborn daughter Whimsy Lou.

Nara most recently filmed the home birth of the newest addition to the family. "I was on all fours, leaning against our bed when I told Lucky I felt the urge to push," she said in the TikTok post.

"And he immediately knew what that meant, so I was just on the floor pushing and he was behind me trying to figure out whether this baby was coming or not because our midwives were still kind of far away."

She later described it as the "most magical experience" of her life.

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