Chrissy Teigen
Christine Diane Teigen[2][3] (born November 30, 1985)[4] is an American model and television personality. She made her professional modeling debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2010 and appeared on the 50th-anniversary cover alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge in 2014. She formerly appeared as a panelist on the syndicated daytime talk show FABLife (2015–2016). She co-hosted the musical competition series Lip Sync Battle (2015–2019) with LL Cool J and was a judge on the comedy competition series Bring the Funny (2019). Teigen has also authored three cookbooks.
Chrissy Teigen
Early life[edit]
Christine Diane Teigen was born on November 30, 1985, in Delta, Utah.[5] Her mother, Vilailuck, is from Thailand, while her father, Ron, is an American of Norwegian descent.[5][6] Her surname is usually pronounced /ˈtiːɡən/; despite this, she stated that she prefers the pronunciation /ˈtaɪɡən/.[3] After she was born, she and her family relocated to Snohomish, Washington, where her parents ran a tavern.[5]
When Teigen was 15, her father relocated them to Huntington Beach, California, after her mother returned to Thailand. During this time, she worked at a surf shop, where she landed a modeling campaign with clothing company Billabong through the shop's clients, and was discovered by a photographer.[5] In her early modeling career, Teigen lived in Miami, Florida, "for four years, six months out of the year".[7]
Personal life[edit]
Teigen became engaged to singer John Legend in December 2011, after four years of dating.[46] The couple first met while filming his 2006 music video for the song "Stereo", in which she played his love interest.[47] They married in September 2013,[47] celebrating their wedding on September 14 in Como, Italy.[1] Legend's song "All of Me" was dedicated to her.[48] They reside in Beverly Hills, California.[5] On September 16, 2023, Teigen and Legend celebrated ten years of marriage and renewed their vows by Lake Como, Italy.[49]
Teigen and Legend have four children.[50] Their first two children, a daughter born in 2016 and a son born in 2018, were conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF).[51][52] While the couple was expecting a third child in 2020, Teigen experienced pregnancy loss at 20 weeks due to a complication, initially described as a miscarriage. She clarified in 2022 that the loss was "an abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance."[53][54][55][56] In 2023, Teigen gave birth to a third child,[57] a daughter conceived via IVF.[58] Their fourth child, a son, was born via surrogacy later in the year.[59]
In May 2021, television personality Courtney Stodden said that in 2011, during her marriage as a minor to actor Doug Hutchison, Teigen tweeted and privately messaged her urging her to kill herself.[60][61] Teigen subsequently apologized to Stodden, saying she was sad and mortified at her past self, whom she described as "an insecure, attention seeking troll."[62] Stodden accepted her apology but deemed it an attempt to save her business partnerships.[62] A month later, Teigen released another apology in a lengthy blog post admitting to cyberbullying.[63] Fashion designer Michael Costello and television personality Farrah Abraham then respectively spoke out about being targets of her attacks, with Costello posting screenshots of taunting messages from Teigen.[64] In response to Costello, Teigen stated that his screenshots had been faked and shared screenshots of praiseful messages from Costello, after which the designer said he had evidence to verify his claims.[65][66]
On July 18, 2022, Teigen celebrated one year of alcohol sobriety.[67]