Hope Dworaczyk Smith was born in a small town in Texas in 1984. She grew up with a love of fashion and, while in high school, competed and won a beauty pageant in 2000 where she was crowned Miss Teen Texas America 2000. After winning this title, she received the opportunity to model professionally with Wilhelmina Models in New York City. She went on to model professionally until 2012. While modeling, Hope also studied and received her esthetician license. Hope was the host and a producer of Canada's link=tt2973616 television show from 2006-2009. She also appeared on Season 11 of link=tt0364782.

Hope took her interest in self-care, beauty, and luxury skin care to create her own company, and founded MUTHA in 2019, where she is CEO and actively involved in product development. MUTHA is not only an internationally renowned brand, but also gives back, with donations to The Conscious Kid, which offers education and fosters positive identity in youth and the International Medical Corps, which supports women and children. Hope is a doula, which she explored after her first children were born, she has deep interest in the mental and physical transformations of motherhood. She has published her first book titled "Your Body Is Magic: Wellness Strategies for a Healthy Pregnancy and Birth" about pregnancy, conception, and her experience becoming a mother in 2021. She is married to entrepreneur and philanthropist Robert F. Smith, with whom she has four children.

She supports many philanthropic causes that are dear to her heart, and are primarily groups that lift up mothers and children, as well as organizations that fight racism. Some of her favorite causes include Unlikely Heroes, which helps children escape sex slavery and the International Medical Corps, from whom she received a Humanitarian Award in 2018, along with her husband. Together, she and her husband also support Together We Rise, a nonprofit organization that helps foster children achieve greatness by attending college.