John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have been together since 2006 and married since 2013. They share two children together, lost a pregnancy, and now are expecting another child. I knew they’d been together for a long time, but didn’t realize it was quite that long. They’ve obviously experienced a lot of highs and lows, from the early days of their relationship to present. And John appeared on a podcast recently and discussed how their relationship has changed over the years and the work he’s done on himself and that they’ve done together to get through hard times and come out stronger.
John Legend is being completely honest about the highs and lows in his relationship with Chrissy Teigen. The “All of Me” singer is a guest on the latest episode of the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast where he got candid about his evolving relationship with his wife.
Legend, 43, and Teigen, 36, tied the knot in 2013, and the GRAMMY-winning superstar shared that at the start of their relationship, he wasn’t ready to be the man that she needed him to be.
Legend shared that with time, and working on himself, he was able to fully become the man that he is today.
The pair’s evolving love was the inspiration behind Legend’s song, “I Don’t Love You Like I Used To.” The track, Legend said, is about love not being the same with your person, and changing for the better.
One of the couple’s most challenging moments came when they lost their son, Jack, in 2020. Legend, who wrote the song “Pieces” about his and Teigen’s grief, said that one of the most important lessons came with figuring out how to live together with their unimaginable anguish over the loss of their son.
Legend — who is currently expecting another child with Teigen — noted that having their children, Luna, 6, and Miles, 4, really helped them work through the loss, and inspired them to keep going as a family.
The EGOT winner said that with time, his and Teigen’s relationship has faced highs and lows, and seeing how his wife has reacted in each situation, really helped his love for her to evolve and change for the best.
“I’ve just learned so much about her personality, how she reacts to stress, how she reacts to life, how she can find a joke even in like the craziest, even in grief, she’s able to find humor,” he said. “I think you see so many things about your partner as you grow together and as you experience adversity together and what I’ve seen from her just made me love her more and value her more. I think she’s cooler now than I ever thought she was. I just really have seen her in all kinds of situations. I just value her more, and in awe of her more than I ever have been.”
John spoke a bit about being selfish in earlier days of their relationship, which tracks with something I remember Chrissy saying back in the day about playing it cool for a while because he didn’t seem ready to commit. And the stuff he says about evolving together and learning more about her personality even at this point is sweet. People change over the years and it helps with the foundation if you have a partner that understands that and is able to either change with you or accept those changes. The fact that they’ve worked through pregnancy loss together is heart-breaking, but also heart-warming they were able to come out stronger. Also, just from the title I’d thought “I Don’t Love You Like I Used To” was a breakup song, so I’m glad it’s not. Anyway, my impression was that John is mild-mannered and Chrissy is a bit obnoxious and attention-seeking and overshares (and sometimes truly awful), but there’s a lid for every pot and even awful people want/need partners that value them. They do seem good together and I’m happy for them that they’re able to grow their family as they both clearly want.
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Christie going into business with liar Kris Jenner prompted me to stop following her then finding out what she’d tweeted about young Courtney Stodden and I was done. It’s been nice not seeing her on SM. I was a huge vocal fan of her first cookbook but I’ve moved on. There are so many inspiring people to follow, I don’t have time for her.
Same here, I bought her cookbooks, made her recipes…generally enjoyed her, even though she was a bit draining. But her history was too much to ignore. I hope she’s made amends, grown up, learned her lesson – but I doubt it. I quit following anything about her. (Though their kids are darling!)
Anyone who behaved as she did towards Courtney Stodden is not someone I respect. Her behaviour speaks volumes about who she is as a person, those poor children!
Well said.
His wife publicly AND privately bullied a teenage girl, telling her to kill herself, and Legend finds this admirable? His wife is insufferable, and he is an idiot. Teigen has yet to apologize directly to Stodden for how she treated them. But do go on about how much more you love and admire her. So much growth! Such humanity! Ugh.
His wife makes me think he is not a nice person too.
Same! Must say something about him that he is okay with that behavior in a partner and makes him love her more 🙄
@Izzy Thank you! Exactly my thoughts. She is a terrible person and in my book he is guilty by association.
Of course that’s not what he finds admirable. Perhaps he sees that she’s not that person any more.
She couldn’t even apologize to Courtney personally all she did was post a PR apology on the Internet lied and said she apologize to Courtney in private and then block Courtney when they told the truth.
Insufferable is the perfect word to describe her. I’ve always wondered how he puts up with her bs, but now I’m side eyeing him, too.
Well.
He was pals with Kanye until recently, when the backlash got to be too great for his wholesome father of the year persona couldn’t combat it.
But he sat through at least a decade of Kanye crap, plus his own wife is a horrible person who wishes suicide n abused vulnerable young people.
He’s shown us & I completely believe him.
A LOT of people were friends with Kanye up until “recently” i.e. the last few years. John had known him for nearly two decades. I’m sure realizing you can no longer be friends with someone you’ve known for so long is hard. But he did in fact end their friendship. I don’t think it’s fair to ding him for something like that. He didn’t end the friendship last week. He ended nearly two years ago.
So he is fine with his wife telling a teenager to k*** herself ?
I had to read this whole article to see he is only speaking of their romantic and family relationship, because my first thought at reading the headline was “Really? Watching her cyberbully a teenager to commit suicide made you love her more?” Yikes. She definitely manipulates him, but he is a grown man and his staying with her makes me think he must be a garbage person too.
Some of us said that John Legend’s choice in a wife made him sus after Chrissy was outed as a social media creep telling a teen sex abuse victim to go kill themselves. We got endless handwringing about how John was off limits and couldn’t be blamed for his wife’s bullying.
Tuh tuh.
She probably bullies him too, dont you think?
if we must talk about chrissy teigen, why does noone ever bring up her apparently increasing, unhealthy use of plastic surgery. i saw a photo of hers recently, and almost failed to recognise her face. i mean, she’s transforming before our eyes, why is no-one talking about this?
What she is doing to her face is sad
I can’t stand these two. The fact that John is still with her proves he isn’t as nice as people think. Wish they’d just go away.
I’ve lost all respect for this man. Clearly he’s fine with his wife’s behavior and personally I think he just kind of checked out of the relationship and doesn’t want to bother finding a new spouse and breaking up a family so he just tolerates it. Sorry but I don’t see how any decent person could be with someone like Chrissy. She’s a troll, a bully, her whole life is just tweeting things online and getting really bad plastic surgery and injectables. She has all this privilege and could be doing so much more yet all she wants to do is be some over the top Social Media drama queen. Pass on them.
Yeah….I’m not here for the Chrissy Teigen new image campaign. She’s trash
She weird