Chrissy Teigen has opened up about the devastating loss of her third child with husband John Legend, a little boy the pair named Jack. In 2020, Chrissy and John revealed that they had lost their son when her pregnancy was at 20 weeks.
While speaking at Propper Daley's summit, "A Day of Unreasonable Conversation," on September 15, 2022, Chrissy revealed that the actual experience was a little different from how it was reported that day.
While speaking about challenges that she's had to face and overcome, Chrissy revealed that she and John knew their pregnancy was not viable 20 weeks into it. She said, "It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention."
Chrissy went in for a lifesaving abortion, though she didn't think about it that way at the time. She went on, "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."
She then followed up quickly to explain that at the time, she truly thought miscarriage was the correct term. She said, "I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago."
She and John were talking about the impact of the overturn of Roe v. Wade when things started to click into place for her.
She expressed feeling bad for people who have had to get abortions for medical reasons, and then her husband pointed out that was exactly what she had done. She said, "I fell silent, feeling weird that I hadn’t made sense of it that way."
As she said, "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."
Chrissy announced that the pair's fourth child is on the way on August 3, 2022, by sharing a photo on Instagram and captioning it, "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 (in the leg lately, as u can see!) we have another on the way. 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. I don’t think I’ll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves but so far, everything is perfect and beautiful and I’m feeling hopeful and amazing."
