Nara Smith Says Running Her Fingers Through Her 2-Year-Old Daughter’s Hair, Only to Find It Falling Out, Has Been One of the Hardest Parts of Her Cancer Journey

A week after telling the world her toddler was in cancer treatment, Nara Smith went back to the small losses no one warns you about. The strands on the pillow. The curls she used to tuck behind Whimsy’s ears.

Whimsy Smith is 2 years old, in the middle of chemotherapy, and losing her hair. Her mom, model and content creator Nara Smith, shared the moment it hit her in a July 7 Instagram post set to videos of her daughter’s hair coming out.

“The day I ran my fingers through her hair, strands coating them, I realized I wouldn’t be brushing Whimsy’s hair much longer,” she wrote. “It’s such a small thing until it isn’t.”

Nara and husband Lucky Blue Smith have four kids together, and she’s stepmom to an eighth-year-old Lucky shares with ex Stormi Bree. She said the point wasn’t sympathy: “If sharing these pieces of our story helps even one family feel less alone, or encourages one person to learn more about childhood cancer, then this vulnerable part of our lives is worth opening.”

She’s also found small ways through it, recently posting a photo of Whimsy’s bald head covered in rhinestones with the caption, “Little warrior girl.”

And the update she chose to end on: “Today her curls are returning.”

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