Chrissy Teigen | |
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Born | Christine Diane Teigen November 30, 1985 Delta, Utah, U.S. |
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Years active | 2006–present |
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Children | 4 |
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Agency | IMG Models (Worldwide) [1] |
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.
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] Her parents divorced in 2020. [7]
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". [8]
Teigen was a briefcase model on the game show Deal or No Deal during the pilot and first season. [9] She appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2010, and was named "Rookie of the Year". [10] Her friend and fellow model Brooklyn Decker had introduced her to the people at Sports Illustrated to cast her. [11] The following year, she designed and debuted a capsule collection with swimwear designer DiNeila Brazil at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim in Miami as well as appeared as a featured character in the 2011 Electronic Arts video game Need For Speed: The Run . [12] She also filmed a Cooking Channel special titled Cookies and Cocktails. [13]
Two years later, Teigen was the host of the competition series Model Employee on VH1. [14] She was also featured on another Cooking Channel special, titled Chrissy Teigen's Hungry, detailing her wedding menu tasting with then-fiancé, John Legend. [15] In October 2013, she appeared in Legend's music video for the song "All of Me", which also features footage from their wedding. [16] In April 2014, Teigen played a fictionalized version of herself as a relationship counselor in an Inside Amy Schumer sketch. [17] That same year, she appeared on the 50th anniversary cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue with Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge. [18] [19] In January 2015, Teigen guest starred on the sitcom The Mindy Project as the girlfriend of the man who was the main character's first sexual partner. [20] In April, she became a co-host of the musical competition series Lip Sync Battle alongside LL Cool J. [21] She co-hosted the 2015 Billboard Music Awards with Ludacris. [22]
From September 2015 until June 2016, Teigen was a food stylist and panelist on Tyra Banks's syndicated daytime talk show, FABLife . [23] In February 2016, she published a book titled Cravings: Recipes for All of the Food You Want to Eat, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller and the second-best selling cookbook of the year. [24] [25] The following year, Teigen released a clothing line in collaboration with the fashion company Revolve. [26] In September 2018, she released her second book, titled Cravings: Hungry For More. [27] Simultaneously, she released a line of cookware through Target. [28] In 2019, she was included on Time 's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. [29]
The following year, Teigen appeared as a judge for the comedy competition series Bring the Funny . [30] In November, she launched a cooking website, Cravings by Chrissy Teigen, which features recipes as well as restaurant and entertaining tips. [31] Chrissy's Court , a courtroom-style series starring Teigen, debuted in April 2020 on Quibi. Teigen also serves as executive producer for the series. [32] The series survived the platform's demise later that year, moving to The Roku Channel in May 2021 and premiering its second season in June 2022. [33] It was the platform's most watched unscripted premiere ever. The third season is scheduled to premiere on October 21, 2022. [34]
As of May 2021, Target had stopped carrying her cookware line, which a company spokesperson said was a "mutual decision". [35]
Teigen identifies herself as a feminist and intends on raising her children as such. [36] She and John Legend made donations to nonprofit organization Planned Parenthood in 2015 following the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting and again in 2017. [37] [38] She and her husband John Legend donated $25,000 to March for Our Lives, a rally in favor of gun control, in 2018. [39] A supporter of immigrants' rights, Teigen delivered a speech at a Families Belong Together event in Los Angeles that same year. [40] In May 2020, she donated $200,000 to bail and legal defense funds to aid activists arrested during protests in response to the murder of George Floyd. [41]
Teigen is a vocal critic of former U.S. President Donald Trump. [42] To commemorate Trump's 72nd birthday in June 2018, she donated $72,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit organization. [43] In September 2019, Teigen and Trump exchanged insulting tweets. During a House Oversight Committee hearing in February 2023, it was revealed that Trump was upset with Teigen's insults and had White House staff contact Twitter to demand that Twitter delete Teigen's tweet which he found objectionable. Twitter refused the request. [44]
Teigen and her husband endorsed Elizabeth Warren during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. [45] The couple endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election. [46]
Teigen became engaged to singer John Legend in December 2011, after four years of dating. [47] The couple first met while filming his 2006 music video for the song "Stereo", in which she played his love interest. [48] They married in September 2013, [48] celebrating their wedding on September 14 in Como, Italy. [1] Legend's song "All of Me" was dedicated to her. [49] 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. [50]
Teigen and Legend have four children. [51] Their first two children, a daughter born in 2016 and a son born in 2018, were conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF). [52] [53] 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." [54] [55] [56] [57] In 2023, Teigen gave birth to a third child, [58] a daughter conceived via IVF. [59] Their fourth child, a son, was born via surrogacy later in the year. [60]
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. [61] [62] Teigen subsequently apologized to Stodden, saying she was sad and mortified at her past self, whom she described as "an insecure, attention-seeking troll." [63] Stodden accepted her apology but deemed it an attempt to save her business partnerships. [63] A month later, Teigen released another apology in a lengthy blog post admitting to cyberbullying. [64] 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. [65] 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. [66] [67]
On July 18, 2022, Teigen announced that she was celebrating one year of alcohol sobriety. [68]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2007 | Deal or No Deal | Briefcase model | Season 2, Episode 52 | [9] |
2011 | Cookies & Cocktails | Herself | Cooking Channel program | [13] |
2012, 2015 | America's Next Top Model | Herself / Challenge judge | 2 episodes | |
2013 | Model Employee | Herself / Host | 8 episodes | |
2013, 2014 | The View | Herself / Guest co-host | 2 episodes | |
2014 | Wild 'n Out | Herself | Episode: "Chrissy Teigen/PWD" | |
Inside Amy Schumer | Episode: "Boner Doctor" | [17] | ||
Snack Off | Herself / Judge | 18 episodes | ||
Ridiculousness | Herself | 1 episode | ||
The Getaway | ||||
2015–2016 | FABLife | Herself / co-host | 179 episodes | [23] |
2015–2019 | Lip Sync Battle | Color commentator | [21] | |
2015 | The Mindy Project | Grace | Episode: "San Francisco Bae" | [20] |
2016 | The Toycracker: A Mini-Musical Spectacular | Nutcracker | Television film | |
Top Chef | Herself | 1 episode | ||
2017 | Double Dutchess: Seeing Double | Segment "M.I.L.F. $" | ||
Keeping Up with the Kardashians | Season 14, episode 4 | |||
2018 | Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | Crystal the Invisible Woman | Voice | |
A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy | Herself | Christmas special | ||
2019 | The Voice | Episode: "The Blind Auditions Premiere, Night 1" | ||
2019, 2024 | Celebrity Family Feud | 2 episodes | ||
2019 | Bring the Funny | Judge | [30] | |
2019 | Between Two Ferns: The Movie | |||
2019 | Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner | [69] | ||
2020–present | Chrissy's Court | Also executive producer | [32] | |
2020 | Ellen's Game of Games | Episode: "Stink Tank" | ||
The Simpsons | Voice; Episode: "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" | |||
2021 | Mr. Mayor | Episode: "Brentwood Trash" | ||
The Mitchells vs. the Machines | Hailey Posey | Voice | ||
2022 | Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist | Executive producer | ||
StoryBots: Answer Time | Ms. Mushroom | Episode: "Taste" | ||
2023 | Mulligan | Lucy Suwan | Voice; 10 episodes | |
2024 | After Midnight | Herself | 1 episode |
Year | Title | Artist | Notes | Ref. |
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2007 | "Stereo" | John Legend | [48] | |
2013 | "All of Me" | [16] | ||
2016 | "Love Me Now" | [70] | ||
"M.I.L.F.$" | Fergie | [71] | ||
2019 | "Preach" | John Legend | [72] | |
2020 | "Wild" | [73] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2011 | Need for Speed: The Run | Nikki Blake | Voice | [74] |
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