Chrissy Teigen is a model, TV presenter, and unofficial Twitter queen who lives
a life straight out of a Hollywood fairytale - at least on paper. But fame,
money, and a beautiful family can't protect beloved celebs from major hardships in life.
Here are some of the tragic details about Chrissy Teigen.
In August 2020, Chrissy and John Legend brightened everyone's time in quarantine with
the announcement that they were expecting their third child through his music video for "Wild."
Soon after, Chrissy revealed that her pregnancy was high-risk. She was on strict bed rest and
later admitted to the hospital in an attempt to control heavy bleeding,
even sharing that she had two blood transfusions.
Tragically, on September 30th, Chrissy shared on Instagram that her pregnancy
ended with the loss of their son, whom she and John named Jack. She wrote,
"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we've
never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed,
despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn't enough."
Chrissy's heartbreaking post implied that Jack passed during or soon after birth. She continued,
"To our Jack - I'm so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many
complications, that we couldn't give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you."
Chrissy displayed an immense amount of strength by sharing their loss,
which was met with an outpouring of love and support from celebs and fans.
Prior to losing baby Jack, Chrissy had been open about her struggles
with infertility for a very long time. Her oldest children with John, Luna and Miles,
were conceived via in-vitro fertilization - and it wasn't an easy journey. In 2018, she told The Cut,
"When you go through IVF, it does feel like, 'Oh it's not fair I have to do all this.' Still,
it's a complete miracle when it works. Ours didn't work the first time, and it
was devastating. You realize that a lot of it is luck, and you can't blame things on yourself."
Despite logically knowing that it wasn't her fault, Chrissy admitted she felt guilty
and thought about all of the ways she could've changed her behavior so that she'd get pregnant.
Problems conceiving affect both halves of a couple of course,
and John opened up to Cosmopolitan about their IVF journey, saying,
"I think it's especially difficult when you can't conceive naturally. You want to
feel like everything's working properly and want everything to be perfect, but sometimes it's not."
In true John form, he remained mostly concerned about his wife. He added,
"I just want to support her. I want her to be happy and to live the fullest,
most awesome life she can, and I want us to do it together."
According to the official Postpartum Depression website, 1 in 7 women experience postpartum
depression within a year of giving birth. When women who've miscarried or had a stillbirth are
factored in, about 900,000 women in the U.S. have postpartum depression annually. Still, it's quite
difficult for mothers to talk openly about experiencing depression after having a child.
Helping to pave the way, Chrissy opened up to the whole world about her experience in an essay
for Glamour, detailing what being a new mom to her daughter, Luna, actually felt like. For one thing,
her diagnosis also included anxiety, so she had a lot of physical symptoms. She explained,
"I was different than before. Getting out of bed to get to set on time was painful.
My lower back throbbed; my ­shoulders - even my wrists - hurt. I didn't have an appetite."
She revealed that she would snap at people, spontaneously cry often, leave robes in the
kitchen so she wouldn't have to go upstairs, and was generally "not enjoying life." She continued,
"To have people that you respect, who are the best in the business, witness you at your worst is
tough. [...] But postpartum does not discriminate. I couldn't control it. [...] I want people to know
it can happen to anybody and I don't want people who have it to feel embarrassed or to feel alone."
Amidst being a new mom with a bright spotlight on her, Chrissy admitted to Cosmopolitan in
2017 that she was, quote, "point blank, just drinking too much." As the model explained,
the celebrity lifestyle makes that very easy to do. She revealed,
"I got used to being in hair and makeup and having a glass of wine. Then that
glass of wine would carry over into me having one before the awards show.
And then a bunch at the awards show. And then I felt bad for making kind of
an ass of myself to people that I really respected. And that feeling, there's just
nothing like that. You feel horrible. It's not a good look for me, for John, for anybody."
Chrissy classified herself as a person who, in her words, "can't just have one drink."
Combined with a family history of alcohol abuse and the anxiety medication she was taking for her
postpartum depression, she revealed that she began to worry for her health. She admitted,
"Nobody really brought it up to me. I knew in my heart it wasn't right."
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Chrissy has worked hard to become a cookbook author with a brand outside of modeling
and being known as John's wife. And considering the fact that she
makes an estimated $12 million a year on her own,
this multi-talent is doing fine. But not everyone in the culinary world appears to respect her.
In May 2020, The New York Times food writer Alison Roman infamously commented to The New Consumer on
Chrissy's success following her Cravings cookbook. According to Vox, Roman's since-deleted quote was:
"[Chrissy] had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom. Line at Target. Boom,
now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it's just, like,
people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me and it's
not something that I ever want to do. I don't aspire to that."
Roman's comments sparked controversy - and a response from Chrissy,
who said in a series of tweets:
"This is a huge bummer and hit me hard. I have made her recipes for years now,
bought the cookbooks, supported her on social and praised her in
interviews. [...] I just had no idea I was perceived that way, by her especially."
The racial implications of Roman's comments were also reported on,
and despite Chrissy accepting her public apology,
Roman's column was placed "on temporary leave." Of Roman's consequences, Chrissy tweeted that
she hadn't meant for Roman to be punished and didn't support the New York Times' decision.
No one writes a tweet quite like Chrissy - and no one gets trolled on Twitter
quite like she does either. The popular model has been blocked by President Donald Trump,
who also called her a "filthy-mouthed wife" in a 2019 tweet. But as Chrissy told Vanity Fair,
"I don't care about pissing off a bunch of bigots."
"Who's the scariest villain of all time?" "Donald Trump."]
However, it's been the comments criticizing her and John's use of IVF that took trolling to a
whole new - and incredibly mean - level for Chrissy. The model, who is famously
candid and rarely has the occasion to delete tweets, has sometimes erased her own responses
to comments about her fertility struggle. According to Glamour, after a Twitter user
asked why Chrissy didn't, quote, "give it a minute to try naturally," Chrissy responded,
"Hi Linda, thanks for asking, you complete witch.
I tried for about 9 years. Anything else, let me know!"
Fat-shaming is just plain wrong, and that includes insulting celebrities - even if Chrissy
does happen to have loud, epic clap-backs. When someone rudely tweeted at her, quote,
"chubby needs to get to the gym," Chrissy turned the tables on them, responding with,
"I hate to say this but...you are not a small person?
also I don't care about my weight sooooo this does not hurt."
Not everyone is able to brush off negative feelings about their bodies,
so how does Chrissy manage to do it? She told Glamour,
"If you hear the same comment over and over again,
it gets to you. But when you are happy in other aspects of your life, you care less about it.
I'm already thinking enough things I am mad at myself about, I can't my body into it."
Chrissy and John were named in the debunked "Pizzagate" theory that began in 2016.
In short, members of the Democratic party - including then-presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton - were falsely accused of running a trafficking ring out of a pizzeria.
As reported by Today, Chrissy and John had to threaten legal action against a
"columnist" who implicated the couple in the debunked ring.
When Chrissy questioned the accuser on Twitter, she responded,
"Chrissy you run in circle with people who [violently] traffic kids.
This is a fact. I expose [...] trafficking for a living."
The columnist's "verified" status on the platform was later revoked.
Chrissy wrote in a September 2020 Instagram post while promoting a Marie Claire cover
story that she was, quote, "struggling hard with some deep dark internet/real life days."
As she told the magazine, this eventually prompted her to seek help. She explained,
"I'm barely online anymore, and that was at the request of my therapist.
I didn't start therapy until quarantine. I used to avoid it and make fun of the idea of it,
and then I found the right person and it changed my world."
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