NASCAR driver’s unexpected appearance in completely unrelated cameo – Motorsport – Sports

Another NASCAR driver was featured on a recent show; this time, it was Natalie Decker Lemke. 

Decker recently gave birth to a son in February 2025 with her husband Derek Lemke and took time away from the sport  to start a family. She first announced her pregnancy in August 2024 on social media, and since then, has admitted her mental state is not where she would like it to be. 

Still, the NASCAR star was able to make fans laugh by way of her cameo on the Netflix adult comedy show ‘Big Mouth.’ In season eight, episode eight of the show, Decker has a handful of lines as she helps one of the main characters understand how life could be simplified without the use of external stimuli.

During her brief cameo, Decker also was spotted driving her Xfinity Bikini Zone Chevrolet while also a cartoonish version of herself was seen standing outside her car on the cover of ‘Car and Driver.’ On her website, Decker released a statement on her appearance in ‘Big Mouth.’

In particular, the star explained how being in the cartoon was something she could tick off her to-do list. “I’ve always wanted to be in a cartoon,” her statement read. “Never in a million years did I think it would happen – and definitely not in ‘Big Mouth’s’ final season!”

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“I feel so guilty even saying this, but I’m so over being pregnant,” she said. “All my symptoms from my first trimester have come back. The nauseousness, the fatigue, the migraines, I could go on and on and on, but the biggest thing I’m struggling with is mentally. Just feeling good about myself and feeling like myself.”

She added: “I do not feel like myself at all, and I do not like looking at myself in the mirror. Don’t like the way I look, and I could talk for days about that. I know with pregnancy, you’re going to get swollen, but I didn’t know how swollen.

“My feet grew so much, I used to be a youth, child size 3, now I barely fit into a woman’s size 6. There is not one part of my body right now that is not swollen. It is so crazy. I did not expect that. I planned to do maternity photos by now… I just have not committed because I don’t like the way I look.”