Chrissy Teigen and John Legend cover the June issue of DuJour magazine. Chrissy’s promoting her upcoming ABC talk show, The F.A.B.. John came along for this magazine feature. You can see the NSFW shoot here (Chrissy takes it off and frolics in the ocean). Sports Illustrated is all over this shoot because they love Chrissy. She and John both look good but soooo loved up. If it was any other couple, I’d tell them to get a room. Here are some joint interview excerpts:
John on falling for Chrissy: “The more I got to know her, I started to realize how funny and cool she was. You meet all kinds of good-looking people, but she was so vibrant and engaging. Even when we’d text, she was always saying something clever.”
Chrissy wants babies next year: “We want a lot of kids. I would love to have three or four of my own, and then adopt a few. So basically I’ll be pregnant the rest of my life. … [The thought] of getting boobs thrills me. And John looooves pregnant women, so–”
John wants daughters: “She thinks I’m not athletic enough to have a boy. I’m a musician, I’m good with women and I’m a feminist, so I think I’ll be a good ‘girl daddy.’ Part of my goal in making money is so that our kids won’t have to fly on regular planes and embarrass us. I’m saving up so they can fly private.”
Chrissy won’t be an insufferable parent: “I feel like sometimes when people give birth, they give birth to a tiny part of their brain. Whatever they thought they would be goes out the window and they kind of lose their minds. I am 1,000 percent not going to have an Instagram account for my baby. It will not have a hashtag. If I have a hashtag for my baby, just kill me.”
[From DuJour]
Well, I’ll be interested to see if Chrissy’s personality stays intact after she has her first baby. She’ll probably stay the same. I get what she’s saying though. Sometimes people don’t do anything for themselves after becoming parents. Life becomes all about the baby for them, but they must like it that way. No judgment.
Chrissy also recently Instagrammed her stretch marks (but she did so less obnoxiously than LeAnn Rimes). She promised to never photoshop her selfies again: “I just didn’t feel like doing it anymore … because I think we forgot what normal people look like now.”
P.S. Is it too late to share Chrissy’s Memorial Day cocktail recipes? Nah.
Photos courtesy of DuJour magazine & Fame/Flynet
I don’t follow them other than the articles here but man they sure are adorable! I like her more and more, she’s really funny, I just saw her comments on meeting the President and laughed out loud because that’s some awkward stuff I would do! They seem like a solid couple and their babies will be gorgeous!
Does she ever open her mouth and not insert her foot? These two are one step above hot messes all the time.
Nope. She’s awful.
Agree 100%. How tacky to say that parents “…lose their minds”. Speak for yourself dimbulb.
It’s true. You don’t know how many times I have sat down with other moms and there’s no conversation about anything other then their kids. The kids activities, the kids teachers ect. It’s like as soon as a child comes into the picture, you lose yourself. For the longest time I thought I was a bad parent because I didn’t get sucked into that parent vacuum.
I believe that you’ve got to keep your own identity.
I’m going to go one step further than Chrissy and say mother’s don’t lose their minds after giving birth, they all of a sudden become experts in child rearing, Gisele style. They know what’s best for not only their babies but yours as well. They tell other parents what they should or should not being doing.
Another thing some of them become experts on: anything that has to do with love, selfless love, emotion, bonding, sacrifice, priorities, nurturing, partnerships, financial anxiety, education, travel, logistical challenges, nutrition, spirituality, the world being a dangerous place… et al, ad nauseam. And you’ll never understand ________________ (fill in the subject or feeling blank here) “because you don’t have kids.”
Well, I actually do understand, ______________ (fill in name-of-friend-who’s-a-mother here), when & why some of the above happens to or changes for you; I really do. But I have less regard – and have come to run out of patience faster, the more or longer it continues – when ‘motherhood’ itself suddenly becomes the winner of all moral authorities, the trump card of all differences of opinion or experience, the excuse for just plain rude and insensitive behavior, the supreme adult conversation or interests stopper, the judgement of all others in the world as either a threat or a ‘lesser than’ outside your small unit, a sudden font of wisdom about all things ‘that are really important,’ and the basis for a not-so-subtle patronizing (well, I guess, *matronizing*) and often openly smug holder-of-the-secrets-you’ll-just-never-understand-about-anything-else attitude and vocabulary and stance.
Whew. I guess the more I’ve kept quiet about this before when it’s happened with a formerly close friend (one very recently, actually), the more I obviously resented lots of it. Thank goodness for all those wonderful women and mothers – and there are plenty – who somehow make it a point to relate to the world – and to the rest of us childless or child-free women in it – in a somewhat different way.
I have a truckload of, ‘Oh, my gosh, right?’ here for both of you. Let’s hope there won’t be any, ‘You guys are just _______’ responses– we have enough cults.
One of my guilty pleasures is the STFU, Parents blog and Facebook page. I think it nicely proves Chrissy’s point (and yours, V4Real).
@hawkeye yaaaassssss, I love STFU parents! I see examples of this all the time and it’s so annoying! You are not the first to parent, nor will you be the last.
That blog should be required reading for every parent in the ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ demographic.
I love that blog! In fact I found out about the blog from Chrissy’s Twitter account. It’s a gold mine (STFU, Parents blog and Chrissy’s Twitter account).
I actually like this girl. Which surprises me.
I liked her until I scratched the surface.
^ +10000 yes. so much exactly my experience. Loved her. Then found her irritating, grating, offensive, lacking in substance… But damn her food looks good. I still follow her on insta because of it. She seems like a real talent in the kitchen
Her food is good, but it’s nothing original. She’s just parroting it. And at times she speaks about food like she discovered it Woodley style.
they make such a perfect couple, don’t they?
he’s super talented and she’s lovely and quirky.
they live a privileged life, and why not?
yet they seem down to earth on some level.
i do think she puts too much out there on social media.
i’d think more of them if they shut some of that down.
that’s what’s lost with today’s celebrity.
they’re too out there as opposed to remaining mysterious, which has always been a major part of the allure, no?
Is this a Taylor Swift song?
‘Cause it should be
I love Chrissy. She is who whe is. I’ve always liked the fact that John talked about how his feelings evolved for her over time where he fell deeply in love with her, not the usual I knew the minute I met her I was going to marry her. He gets a kick out of her and it’s evident. I love them as a couple and hope they last long-term.
She was on WWHL and her body was stunning. Beautiful legs.
She Is So CLOYING to me… she is like that Amy Schumer Sketch of the Girl that can hang with the Bros, drink beer, burp, eat, cook, say a dirty joke but be sexy at the same time, you know
YES! perfect description. i said much the same over at dlisted
Completely.
and he is trying to be the male version of that.
Am I the only one that thinks the part about insufferable parents and baby Instagram&hastags was directed to Coco Rocha?
She had the #babyconran hastag while pregnant, don’t know if she still uses it though. Plus the moment she went into labour she created the babies Instagram.
Model drama?
She sounds like a giddy 14 year old.
Its not really wise to talk about what kind of parent you’re going to be–before you actually have any kids. After all-what if she gives birth to that part of her brain too?
She’s always kind of irritated me. Like a four year old that interrupts adult conversation to tell a pee pee or poo poo joke. I think she just says whatever pops into that big old pumpkin head. No brain to mouth filter at all. John Legend seems so suave and sophisticated, and she seems so immature. I think he gives her a pass because she’s gorgeous, and he’s dazzled by the poon. But I wonder if that shiz is gonna get old, you know?
She’s kinda trashy and cheap, in a Carmen Electra or Pam Anderson way. A blow-up doll come to life. I don’t get why everyone thinks she’s so amazing.
She has a big heart and loves her man. I think opposites attract. She’s very outgoing. I think he likes many things about her, not just her body.
I don’t get her at all. I don’t think she is pretty and I am aware that I am in a minority of one. She comes across as superficial and flighty.
“She thinks I’m not athletic enough to have a boy. I’m a musician, I’m good with women and I’m a feminist, so I think I’ll be a good ‘girl daddy.’ ”
So he is one of those? Saying the f word to get cookies but not understanding it. Why would you need to be athletic with a boy? Are all boys athletic (he himself isnt but doesnt seem to get that) And are girls not? A feminist can also be a good parent to boys, John.
His wife said that to him. It wasn’t his own comment.
John Legend called himself a feminist! Yay.
and then he reproduced gender roles.
I was prepared to judge the hell out of her for that statement, but then she reeled me back in with the hashtag hate. Because let’s be real: baby name hashtags are stupid.
Ok, so I’m pregnant, hormonal, and irrationally emotional, but can I just say that I love non-filtered celebrity stretch mark, other imperfection photos? They make me feel better.
It’s easy to “lose yourself” once you have babies, especially if you’re the primary caregiver. The money you’d spend on vacations and clothes and massages usually gets spent on the children. And there isn’t a whole lot of “me” time left, especially when they’re little. You just kind of grab it where you can, and an hour away for an afternoon or a peaceful shower feels like an indulgence.
I’m sure Chrissy will allow herself plenty of “me” time – she’s got the money to hire plenty of help (housekeepers, nannies, cooks, assistants, personal trainers). It’s easy to “keep your own identity” when you’ve got the resources to focus on yourself, and get away for several romantic vacations a year with your partner. My husband and I have taken one long weekend alone since our children were born, and that vacation was five years ago.
Sooooooo true! I quit working while I was pregnant because I was high risk, then our oldest was premature and medically intensive, then right as she got less needy I got pregnant again, then our second daughter was premature so I took more time off…. it was like my whole life was consumed.
Money probably helps you hold on to yourself.
Is it just me, or would John Legend make a really good Muppet?
I’m kind of with her regarding the parenting thing. I find it kind of insufferable when women act like they are some cut above because they are pregnant or have had kids. Calm down, I’ve seen fifteen year olds do it on accident. For women who have had fertility struggles, I totally understand the excitement, but it can still be overwhelming, especially if you’re not looking to catch baby rabies yourself.
I’m also really tired of people (most often moms) getting offended that I’m not interested in thinking their children are special. I am not impressed that you think little Johnny is a genius. Costco on a Saturday is not an appropriate place for your four year old. I do not want to see eight hundred pictures of your kid. I do not have any desire to fawn over your kid for anything. I do not have kids for the very excellent reason that I don’t particularly like kids, so please don’t try to make me like yours, you know?
I see it most often in my friends who are younger mothers. Most of the women I’ve met who are older with careers just don’t seem to have the time to hashtag their baby and take a thousand photos of every little thing their baby does.
“Baby rabies” That was awesome!
We are a military family, and babies always seem to happen in waves around us. I am going to have to remember that term for the next time everyone is pregnant.
How is Costco on a Saturday morning not appropriate for a four year old? Too formal? Is it silent shopping? The flip side of your post is that millions of parents are actually working hard to raise thoughtful, respectful and all around good kids. We encourage social appropriateness, but you know what? Children have a right to be in public where appropriate, and I get annoyed with the stink eye I get the rare time my kids make noise.
I completely understand that it’s not always feasible to have childcare while you’re going shopping, but Costco is large and crowded and pride are trying to get stuff done and your kid wandering around the aisle and getting in everyone’s way or throwing a screaming temper tantrum because you won’t buy them some toy… I think kids have every right to behave as kids do but if you can’t keep them under control, then yeah, I think a huge warehouse chock full of people and pallets of stuff is not the most appropriate place in the world.
There are a few things that drive me crazy. It drives me crazy when a stranger expects me to stop and adore their child. I really dislike sitting in a restaurant, and having the child in the next booth stand at stare down at my table, trying to interact with me. The parent tends to ignore them, as if happy that someone else will engage their child for a while. I’ve also, on more than one occasion, had to block a child from climbing under the wall into my changing room.
I don’t mind it as much in children I know. I don’t mind looking at thousands of picture (I do it with my pets). My biggest complaint – placing a barely talking child on the phone, and forcing me to attempt to carry on a conversation. That drives me crazy.
Oh god I once had a father pick his kid up and literally wave it in my face because I didn’t fawn over it when he sat next to me on a bench. Like, picked it up and moved it back and forth four inches from my eyeballs. Who DOES that?!
Have to disagree. You can’t expect people to leave their kids at home all the time. At a formal restaurant, yes but costco? Please. That place is crowded and noisy no matter what.
Don’t judge me, but I am addicted to Lip Sync Battle with her and LL Cool J. She always seems half drunk to me on that show, but after reading that article, I guess that is her normal way. I bet she’d be fun to hang out with.
It is very easy to lose yourself when you have kids. I mean there is this whole little person who is depending on you for their very survival, and getting wrapped up in that is easy to do. When you are a stay-at-home parent, it is even harder to avoid it, I think. My husband and I have taken weekend and short trips without our kids, and I have a friend who just can’t understand why we are not guilt ridden about it. I feel very lucky to have a husband who is very hands on with our kids, and lots of family close by that just love spending time with them. I fully understand that not everyone has that good fortune.
I think that you never know how you will act until you have that first kiddo, but she seems pretty down to earth about it, so cheers to them both and happy baby making.
She’s a part of that show that makes no sense. Just an object the camera can pan over to.
Everyone else is funny and interacts. She’s up there in the corner dancing and playing with things on the shelves like she’s playing a record.
I completely agree with that. Part of why I think she seems always drunk.
Meh. I’ve seen the stereotype in question, sure, but I rankle at being lumped into it, because I don’t define myself purely as a parent. That’s one reason I continue to pursue my nonprofit career – I like having a distinct and individual identity as Cait.
Not just Cait, wife. Or Cait, mother of a child army. Or Cait, alumna. Or Cait, New Orleanian.
I like to be all of those things but not one aspect of my life singularly defines me.
So. Yeah.
At first I thought she was shading Coco Rocha and her baby’s instagram account (and hashtag), but then I remembered that Chrissy’s sister has an Instagram account for her baby daughter. I wonder if she’s shading her own sister.
Oh how I miss the days when she was just a low budget catalog model for cheap trendy clothes.