New Mom and social media maven Chrissy Teigen sat down on Tuesday morning and chatted with Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan, who has obviously wasted no time after leaving Live with Michael and Kelly. The 30-year-old Mom hasn’t let motherhood, which she confesses is “really fun,” slow her down, telling Michael she “bounced right back into the stream of work.”
During the interview, Michael brought up the “Mom-bashing” Chrissy recently received online after she and husband John Legend went out to dinner without newborn daughter Luna. As you recall, Chrissy was hit with a firestorm of criticism calling her parenting into question. The comments prompted John to publicly muse about the lack of Dad-shaming on the internet. Chrissy said, “I used to read mommy blogs like crazy so I knew mommy shaming was a thing but I didn’t think it would come from going to dinner” and was glad her husband had her back.
When asked how John was as a father, she joked, “I don’t even want to say because everyone already thinks John is so perfect, so I love to kind of twist it and make sure people know that nobody is perfect, but he’s been really great.” She added that although John has been great with his daughter, especially at bath time, his musical accompaniment has been met with a less than enthusiastic reception, kidding “that’s winning no awards. We need to get him into children’s books more.”
During the segment, Chrissy also showed off her culinary skills, making a batch of John’s signature chili. She admitted that the “secret ingredient” in many of her recipes is Lawry’s Seasoned Salt. Who knew? I use that stuff all of the time. I am definitely not a chili in the summertime kind of gal (it’s a Super Bowl tradition with my group) but that chili does look pretty yummy. She lost me with the hot dog though. Gross.
Chrissy looked great during the segment. I love her in emerald green. I actually think everyone looks good in emerald green. I’m not a big fan of the ruffled top, but she pulls it off. Of course she does, she’s a model, and you can’t even tell she’s had a baby – in a pencil skirt. Well played, Chrissy. The dress is actually a custom made top and skirt from Fame and Partners. She accessorized with a silver and gold choker and metallic gold strappy heels and her slicked back hair and makeup were on point.
Speaking of looking good, Chrissy and John made quite the striking couple walking through the streets of New York on Monday with Luna in tow. Chrissy posted a pic on Instagram with the caption “Get it, dilf!” referring to her handsome hubby. Chrissy looks pretty great herself and I am having major #bootenvy.
I hope this interview put the Mom-shaming issue to bed for good. She and John are good parents and they have an adorable, happy baby to prove it.
Photo credit: WENN.com, GMA, Instagram/Chrissy Teigen, Pacific Coast News, Fame Flynet
Why is she a model? Legitimate question over here. I hadn’t heard of her until John Legend and that “All of Me” song came out.
Because she is gorgeous? She’s a SI model most famously, I think.
Why? As in, what was her motivation? Or, who hires her?
She is a regular Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, getting the cover once. She’s in various other fashion mags. She also takes cooking classes because she’s super into that and put out a cookbook that’s getting a ton of praise, and has done various cohost duties on various tv shows.
Since there are a lot of instagram selfproclaimed ‘models’ out there, this just seemed an honest question from someone who hasn’t seen her in any fashion spreads and wanted to know if she’s referred to as legit or not and why.
When Chrissy’s covered on CB it’s mostly about her internet presence. I’ve never seen her in anything other than the All Of Me video either tbh.
She admittedly has a unique look. She can look stunning from certain angles, and odd from others. But her body looks good 360 degrees. Haha.
Oh okay, I didn’t know if it was a nepotism or an actual talent/interest situation. Thank you for the replies everybody!
I think she’s absolutely stunning. But she’s not a conventional beauty at all. I can understand if people find her ugly – but I think that “ugliness” is what makes her so pretty.
Swimsuit models in particular are always as bread-and-butter pretty as they get. Seeing someone with a more odd look like Chrissy is a warm welcome. Not to mention her body is out of this world.
Oh no, I wasn’t trying to say she was ugly. I think she’s quite pretty as well. I was just confused for a bit, because I didn’t think the high fashion world had become that accommodating for unique beauties lol.
Oh. But she’s not a high fashion model, though. She does swimsuits and catalogs more than anything. Which isn’t a bad niche at all, as it pays much more.
And “model” is a better word for “professional famous person”, which is more what she does. So you’re not exactly wrong about asking.
She’s done SI for several years as well as Victoria’s secret swim and she’s been in add campaigns for Levis and Bongo jeans. Understandably she’s not a high fashion walking every runway model, but she’s done lots of print and magazine work.
She actually dates back as far as those Alloy magazine order things. She was basically the face of that line.
Thats the thing she was never a “super model ” who did any high fashion or runway work, but was mainly a catalog model. Her star really began to shine after she hooked up with John after being in one of his music videos
This was pretty much a part of her strategy for fame and she alluded to as much in an interview with Tyra who had given her some advice earlier on , on how to achieve that fame she so desperately wanted
He is just too cute/hot for words. She is a lucky lady!
I’m fed up with her. She loves the attention she receives from trolls. That way she can put herself back in the spotlight and pretend like she’s defending some cause.
I’ve been thinking about this from reading the last few posts about her. Before she got to be so well known, she used So Delushious as a blog (I’ve admittedly been a fan ever since I stumbled upon the blog a few years or so ago and started using her as a recipe source.) It looks like she’s deleted a lot of the old content but a long time ago, she wrote a very personal post about how upsetting it is to read disgusting comments about yourself regardless of whether you know the person or not. I was going through a hard time and I remember her writing “you don’t know what I’ve been through when you say these things…you don’t know the hours I’ve stared at a window and imagined the fall.” I’m paraphrasing but it struck a chord with me.
I think she just really finds it unacceptable how hateful social media has become. I agree that she doesn’t need to respond to as many trolls as she does because ultimately and sadly, it just causes them to multiply but I think her heart is in the right place.
I agree. She appeared on the Daily Show and talked about how she always has to react to trolls and to me she came across as genuine and just not able to not get triggered.
I just can’t stand this woman…go away.
Mom shaming is wrong but this woman craves and deliberately courts ANY attention be it negative or positive.
She loves to play the victim but her fans conveniently forget when she has been the instigator like when she bullied an 8 YO girl on line totally unprovoked and uncalled for.I have had little use for her since then.
Yeah she loves the attention. Please ignore her and stop giving her ammo to continue the thirstiness. Not long ago she was laughing along with the degradation of a child, talking about how much she hates kids…now she’s a mommy martyr? Please. I’m sure she’ll pop out another child if it means more positive attention. Her Twitter try-hard trolling didn’t work but obviously this is working
Motherhood is one of those things that’s so confusing from the outside (probably from the inside too, but I don’t have kids). Every mom acknowledges how difficult it is, and yet, tons of moms also judge each other so harshly. You’d think it would be the first thing they’d unite around, but hearing the stories of my friends…. wow.
Doesn’t matter what you do, there will always be shaming (and just not on parenthood). That being said, you don’t have to answer every one of your detractors. You have to learn to pick and choose your battles and who to fight. One statement should have sufficed from Chrissy and then she should let it go.
Don’t have kids, but I think there are certain situations that cause fear and stress, and some people react to that by being hugely invested in “their way” of doing it being the “right” way. I saw this a lot when I had cancer. My kind of cancer did not respond well to chemotherapy and my doctor advised against it, believing it would do more harm than good. Several people who had been given the choice to have chemo “just to be safe” which is a completely different scenario, were very forceful, even furious, about telling me that I was wrong not to do it and my cancer would probably come back. I think parenting is like that. Some people are just so worried that they aren’t making the right decisions that they become angry if another person makes a different decision.
I agree, great analysis.. You can tell the degree of their fear by how out of proportion their aggresiveness is towards your choices.
Yeah, I saw this with one of my friends who had breastcancer. There are so many options and so many uncertainties, it must be really scary.
She is way too thirsty dragging this mommy shaming thing around.
We get it. Pay the haters no mind it speaks volume instead of crying to every social media available about how strangers on the internet are mean. Like people had no idea.
I don’t know (or care) much about her, but the mommy shaming thing needs to be spoken about. It’s not about her specifically- it’s about a culture that once again targets women. Do you ever see dads attacked? No, they’re patted on the back for “babysitting” their kids. Dads can go back to work, but moms are attacked for it. If they do, they better have an expensive nanny, because if you send your kid to day care, you’re a “bad” mom. If a woman has kids by a lot of partners, she’s a “whore”, but a guy’s a stud. If a woman gets drunk, she’s a “shit mom whose kids should be taken away”, but a guy does it, and people shrug their shoulders. Our culture always, ALWAYS finds a way to revile women and make them feel like s–t.
Beautiful family!
I like Chrissy. She loves attention and she puts her foot in her mouth a lot of times, but I don’t think that makes her a bad person. I get a very honest vibe from her, “this is who I am, it’s cool if you like me and fuck you if you don’t”.
And it bothers me people always point out how much attention she gives to her trolls, without mentioning she also uses social media to reach out for her fans. I have a soft spot for celebs who do that – getting a “thank you” or a “that’s sweet” from a celeb you like on twitter is a nice feeling, and I really like it when they take the 5 seconds to do that. Yeah, she could ignore the haters while doing this, but I don’t think she brings them up to victimize herself. She just takes twitter too seriously, imo.
Obviously I side-eye her for a lot of things, but no one is perfect. Overall I think Chrissy is funny, nice and smarter than what may appear. I enjoy her.
This is pretty much how I feel. Also, as a part Asian kid. I think I am drawn to her and overcompensate for her even more. There aren’t a lot of us OUT THERE if you’ve noticed. Even if I look NOTHING like her, if you all think she isn’t pretty enough for the attention or work she gets than my people are truly screwed.
@Elns, FWIW I think she’s very lovely and don’t see how anyone thinks she’s not attractive. I’m in California, though, and there’s a lot of Eurasians here. I don’t think of her as being unconventional looking at all.
I think Chrissy’s an unconventional beauty because she has a rather assymetrical face that looks odd at times, but not because she’s exactly unique. I don’t know her racial background, but I’m South American and girls like Chrissy aren’t hard to find here at all.
She bugs but they seem cute. As for Lawry’s salt, I don’t use it but one of my friends has been making killer burgers for years and that’s his secret ingredient.
She put hot dogs in chili? *shudders*
It seems like she lives for getting social media reactions, talking about it ad nauseum….she’s making a bit of a career of it.
So we’re at the point where women are being criticized for leaving the house without their babies in tow to have a date night meal with their husbands? That’s where we are now?
These self-appointed Mommy Police trolls are no doubt the first people to have an undies-bunching conniption if they hear or even spot a child in a restaurant.
Who are these people, and why do they think they are literally the bosses of everyone?
I think a lot of them are mothers themselves. Lots of sanctimommies out there.
I’m surprised that they didn’t go at her over daring to do an interview. They don’t like when moms work or when kids have sitters/nannies/day care. They are the PTA moms, enjoying their small pond and their sad version of power; they are the ones judging your kids at preschool, to see if yours is worth accepting for playdates. Really sick.
There are so many kids in tragically abusive or neglectful homes. I really wish all of the mommy squad would turn their energy to helping children in need rather than accosting parents for taking a few hours for a quiet dinner.
Yep. Yep. Yep. I wonder if we are aware of how many foster kids there are in our individual counties … Those kids are always needing donations for camp, after school classes, help for applying to college …
Yes, I work with these kids. There are so many in need and so many who survive horrific situations that people turn a blind eye to. When I see people attacking over moms- never dads- not staring at their babies while they sleep, or not making the baby food, or daring to WORK, it makes my blood boil. Or the ones who accuse others of abuse for stupid crap, when they have absolutely no idea what abuse is. Must be comforting to live in the bubble.
She’s so publicity-hungry it’s pathetic.
The only thing missing from these photos is a dog or two. 🙁