It seems no one is safe from body shaming these days… not even supermodels. Seriously, what is this world coming to?! Chrissy Teigen is gorgeous. She's also funny, down-to-earth, and unafraid to confront her haters. Chrissy recently posted a photo on her Instagram account, and it made many people uncomfortable to the point she received rude comments from strangers across the globe. In the photo, she's sitting cross-legged with her dog sitting on the carpet below.
The 29-year-old Sports Illustrated model and wife of John Legend posted the photo with no airbrushing, no Photoshop, and no effects. You can see stretch marks on her thighs, which many, many women have. Not thinking anything of it, she captioned the photo: "Bruises from bumping kitchen drawer handles for a week. Stretchies say hi!"
Celebrities are constantly met with nasty comments and critiques about their appearance, and even Chrissy is no stranger to online bullies. Last year, Chrissy spoke up after Instagram commenters told her it looked like she gained weight. Clothing store Forever 21 reportedly fired her for being "too fat."
Grub Street wrote a piece about Chrissy's self-proclaimed obsession with food and wrote, "Models aren't known for their appetites, but Chrissy Teigen is different. "'I wasn’t a model that loved food," she says. "I was someone that loved food that started modeling.'"
I just love her. What a great role model for young women! Check out the Instragram post below, and please SHARE this fearless woman with your friends on Facebook!
Supermodel Chrissy Teigan recently posted this picture on her Instagram account. Fans pointed out her stretch marks, but it didn't stop her from proudly leaving the controversial image on her profile.
After snapping these pictures for a photo shoot last year, Chrissy posted them on her Instagram page. The photo was met with criticism by bullies who said it looked like she was getting "fat." She fired back, asking, "In what other real life situation would you walk up to someone and tell them they're fat or gained weight?"
Regardless of the negative comments, Chrissy remains an obsessed foodie. Half of her Instagram pictures show her happily snacking on foods most models wouldn't dare be caught eating in public. You go, girl! Please SHARE this story with your friends on Facebook!
Teigen has always been a champion of body positivity. "The thing is, you don’t even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who cares?” she told People.
“Like if somebody tells me, ‘Oh, you look curvier.’ That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss,” she said of comments she has received about her body.
She isn't too keen on people using skinny as a compliment either. “It’s horrible we can be like, ‘You look so skinny,’ and someone’s like, ‘Thank you!’ That’s horrible. That’s equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it’s upsetting."
Teigen makes a pertinent point about too many people seeing "skinny" as beautiful and "fat" as ugly, when really it's a useless binary. Everyone is fine the way they are and health doesn't correlate to a body's thinness or thickness anyway.
The supermodel proves that looking "flawless" isn't always our most natural state.
It takes the star treatment to look like a star and that's OK. It's also OK to look exactly as your unedited self.
We may want to feel good and be healthy, but who would want to give up this permanently?
Or this.... just to avoid a few stretch marks and a little cellulite?
Teigen and husband John Legend are equally as devoted to their indulgences as they are to each other.
After all, who could resist this?
It's pretty clear, stretch marks or not, Teigen is happy.
Check out Teigen's story in the video on the next page!
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