Chrissy Teigen is sharing the real story behind the loss of her son, Jack, in 2020.
When speaking about the miscarriage Thursday, instead of a pregnancy loss, Teigen labeled it an abortion, telling the audience,"Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion. An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago."
Teigen, who is expecting her fourth child with Legend, said she came to the realization not long after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. The model and TV personality said it was actually Legend who brought it to her attention. While expressing sympathy for people who have to have an abortion and the emotional decision"they" have to make, she said it was her husband who made her realize that she was one of those people too.
"I fell silent, feeling weird that I hadn’t made sense of it that way," Teigen recalled."I told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage. And I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion." came nearly two years after she and Legend announced the loss of Jack.
"The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our home and hearts again.1 billion shots later we have another on the way," she wrote alongside a pic showing off her bare bump."Every appointment I’ve said to myself, 'ok if it’s healthy today I’ll announce' but then I breathe a sigh of relief to hear a heartbeat and decide I’m just too nervous still.
For more on Teigen and her pregnancy journey, including how her kids feel about getting a new sibling, check out the video below.