Yahoo Movies Chrissy Teigen Shares The 'Defining' Moment She Shared With A Stranger Post-Pregnancy Loss
Chrissy Teigen is famously open about her life. From sharing intimate parts of her marriage to John Legend to voicing her opinion on diet culture, Chrissy is not afraid to share what's going on with the millions of people who love and follow her. That said, in an interview Monday on TODAY, the celeb admitted it wasn't easy for her to share one particular part of her life with everyone: last year's pregnancy loss.
“I look back on it, and...it feels like such a blur,” she said of the loss of her son, Jack: "It's like being on a roller coaster and holding your breath and then not really remembering it at the end. I just know that the way we shared it was super hard, and it was super hard for John. But for some reason, I knew that it would help a lot of people.”
The Cravings shop owner—who also recently returned to Twitter after a three week self-deactivation period—revealed that her choice to continue opening up to the world throughout her grieving process came after a chance encounter with a stranger in her local grocery store.
“There was one moment that really struck me, and that was being at the grocery store and somebody just quietly laying flowers in my cart,” the mom said. “And then I realized that there’s so many women that don’t get this kind of attention because you just don’t know that it happened to them."
Going on to say how the encounter with the unnamed person was a "very defining moment" that made her realize she "could be this person that people could see and look up to as somebody that had a platform, where their stories were going to be recognized," Chrissy said she now wishes other people are able to receive the same hope that she's gained despite where they are in their fertility journey. In fact, she's now a spokesperson for the Fertility Out Loud campaign and she's ready to provide a safe space for women to open up about their own experiences.
"I think our journey with fertility and infertility has been very public for a very long time," she said of her personal experience. She continued:
I just felt that the more public we were, the more public other people were. I didn’t feel that I had anywhere to go to, but to be able to have a place that families are able to go to where they can, you know, get answers to all of their random questions and to be surrounded by people that are going through the same things. It’s just an important thing to me.
For more information on Fertility Out Loud, resources to help through fertility challenges, and more, visit fertilityoutloud.com.
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