Chrissy Teigen’s Most Honest Quotes About Her Fertility Journey, Struggles to Conceive: ‘There’s No Right Way to Do It’

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Chrissy Teigen’s Most Honest Quotes About Her Fertility Journey, Struggles to Conceive: 'There’s No Right Way to Do It’

The long and winding road. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s journey to becoming parents hasn’t been easy — but the model’s openness about the process has been refreshing. The Cravings author and the “All of Me” crooner tied the knot in September 2013. Shortly after saying “I do,” Teigen began opening up about how many kids they wanted and shutting down people’s constant questions about when she’d get pregnant. “I want a huge family,” the former swimsuit model exclusively told Us Weekly in early 2015. “We want a lot of kids. When it happens, it happens.” She explained at the time, “For us it’s hard because he’s on the road so much and I’m working. People think it happens so easily ... but the stars really have to align to have a baby and it is a little miracle, so when it happens … we will be so happy.” In October of that year, the twosome announced that they were expecting their first child after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments (IVF). “As many of you know, we’ve been trying to have a baby for a while now,” Teigen wrote via Instagram at the time. “It hasn’t been easy, but we kept trying because we can’t wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family. We’re so excited that it’s finally happening. Thank you for all your love and well wishes. I look forward to all the belly touching!” The Chrissy’s Court alum and the Grammy winner welcomed daughter Luna in April 2016. When trying to get pregnant for a second time, Teigen again turned to IVF. “When you go through IVF, it does feel like, ‘Oh, it’s not fair I have to do all this,’” she told The Cut in April 2018. “Still it’s a complete miracle when it works. There are so many people that still struggle, even with the access to IVF.” [jwplayer NpqgpLmW-zhNYySv2] The process, however, did work and the couple welcomed son Miles in May 2018. Tragically, the Cravings: Hungry for More author’s third pregnancy ended in the loss of Teigen and Legend’s second son, Jack, in September 2020. She shared the heartbreaking news via social media, revealing that she and Legend had named their baby before he was stillborn. “To our Jack — I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive,” she wrote, referring to her partial placenta abruption and bleeding. “We will always love you.” After mourning their loss, Teigen confirmed in February 2022 that she was again doing IVF treatments. Six months later, the California resident shared happy news with her followers, revealing that she and Legend were expecting another child. “The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our home and hearts again,” she wrote via Instagram in August 2022, sharing a picture of her baby 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. I don’t think I’ll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves.” Scroll down to relive Teigen’s most powerful and poignant quotes throughout her fertility journey: [podcast_block]

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Chrissy Teigen’s Most Honest Quotes About Her Fertility Journey, Struggles to Conceive: 'There’s No Right Way to Do It’

The long and winding road. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s journey to becoming parents hasn’t been easy — but the model’s openness about the process has been refreshing. The Cravings author and the “All of Me” crooner tied the knot in September 2013. Shortly after saying “I do,” Teigen began opening up about how many kids they wanted and shutting down people’s constant questions about when she’d get pregnant. “I want a huge family,” the former swimsuit model exclusively told Us Weekly in early 2015. “We want a lot of kids. When it happens, it happens.” She explained at the time, “For us it’s hard because he’s on the road so much and I’m working. People think it happens so easily ... but the stars really have to align to have a baby and it is a little miracle, so when it happens … we will be so happy.” In October of that year, the twosome announced that they were expecting their first child after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments (IVF). “As many of you know, we’ve been trying to have a baby for a while now,” Teigen wrote via Instagram at the time. “It hasn’t been easy, but we kept trying because we can’t wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family. We’re so excited that it’s finally happening. Thank you for all your love and well wishes. I look forward to all the belly touching!” The Chrissy’s Court alum and the Grammy winner welcomed daughter Luna in April 2016. When trying to get pregnant for a second time, Teigen again turned to IVF. “When you go through IVF, it does feel like, ‘Oh, it’s not fair I have to do all this,’” she told The Cut in April 2018. “Still it’s a complete miracle when it works. There are so many people that still struggle, even with the access to IVF.” [jwplayer NpqgpLmW-zhNYySv2] The process, however, did work and the couple welcomed son Miles in May 2018. Tragically, the Cravings: Hungry for More author’s third pregnancy ended in the loss of Teigen and Legend’s second son, Jack, in September 2020. She shared the heartbreaking news via social media, revealing that she and Legend had named their baby before he was stillborn. “To our Jack — I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive,” she wrote, referring to her partial placenta abruption and bleeding. “We will always love you.” After mourning their loss, Teigen confirmed in February 2022 that she was again doing IVF treatments. Six months later, the California resident shared happy news with her followers, revealing that she and Legend were expecting another child. “The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our home and hearts again,” she wrote via Instagram in August 2022, sharing a picture of her baby 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. I don’t think I’ll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves.” Scroll down to relive Teigen’s most powerful and poignant quotes throughout her fertility journey: [podcast_block]

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September 2015

“I can’t imagine being that nosy, like, ‘When are the kids coming?’ because who knows what somebody’s going through, who knows if somebody’s struggling?” Teigen said during an appearance on the FABLife, referring to her and Legend’s plans to expand their family. “I would say, honestly, [that] John and I were having trouble. We would have had kids five, six years ago if it had happened, but my gosh, it’s been a process.”

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February 2016

Ahead of welcoming their first child, the couple opted to pick their baby’s sex after extensive IVF treatments. After announcing that they were expecting a girl, Teigen received some backlash over the pair’s decision. “For the record, I am always happy and open to speak on infertility. The more casual, the better! I don’t mind,” she tweeted in response to the hater. “What is that difference though? I’ve already created embryos with a doctor. only after must it be random?”

Teigen further explained that she and Legend “didn’t create a little girl,” instead they “simply chose” put their female embryos in first and second. She noted that they also had male embryos which they hoped to use in the future.

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April 2018

Teigen confessed to The Cut that at times she’s been jealous of women who didn’t have any issues getting pregnant. “You hear stores about IVF working the first try, but you’ll hear a lot more stories about when it takes a few times,” she told the outlet, noting the road to Luna and the Miles was hard. “Ours didn’t work the first time, and it was devastating.”

She continued: “I remember thinking, Oh, I was on my feet too much, and that’s why. You just look for anything to blame, especially yourself. I think hearing stories is just really important. You realize there’s no right way to do it, or right way to react.”

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September 2020

Teigen suffered a pregnancy loss one month after announcing she was expecting baby No. 3. The model later named the stillborn child Jack. “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” she wrote via Instagram alongside a photo in the hospital. “We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough.”

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November 2020

“Every day is so different,” the businesswoman said during a joint Good Morning America appearance with Legend. “When people ask how I’m doing, I say, ‘I’m OK, today.’”

The musician chimed in saying, he didn’t know that they could both “experience grief and also share it.” He explained, “When we did, it really meant so much to so many people. I’m just grateful that my wife was courageous enough to do it. … One of the ways we could carry on Jack’s memory was taking pictures of that moment. I was worried, like, I don’t want to commemorate this pain … [but the photos are] something to remember him by.”

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February 2021

The cookbook author pointed to a silver lining after losing Jack, telling Ellen DeGeneres her grieving process helped recenter her life. One of her biggest life changes was getting sober in late November 2020.

“Being Thai and being raised in a house that was very open about loss, I think it was really helpful because … it was a transformative thing for me,” Teigen told the TV host. “In a way, [my late son, Jack], really saved me. I don’t think I would have discovered therapy and then sobriety and this path of really feeling good about myself and feeling like a new person.”

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August 2021

“I’m slightly down lately. It kind of started when I was thinking of my book caption and typed out ‘my third baby is here!!’ as in cookbook, then realized my third baby will never be here,” the former Lip Sync Battle cohost wrote via Instagram, reflecting on all her recent ups and downs. “Then I realized I threw myself into the book, [Cravings: All Together], to not think of the real, actual third baby.”

Teigen confessed that she has not “fully processed” the loss of baby Jack. “Now that I don’t have the alcohol to numb it away, things are just … there, waiting to be acknowledged,” she continued. “I guess what I’m saying here is life is so f–king complicated.”

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September 2021

A year after suffering her pregnancy loss, Teigen reflected on how her body had reacted to giving birth and why it took so long to bounce back. “It’s really weird when you lose a baby and your body gets paused in time. Usually you’d gain your, ‘Yum yums I’m praaaagnant!’ weight, then put on the weight of your little bebe. Then, ideally, you’d have your baby,” she wrote via Instagram. “And you would feed it from your boobs and your body would know to charge through and do what it does to get you back into fighting shape, whatever that may be, for however long it takes (F—K a snap-back).”

The Bring the Funny judge noted that wasn’t the case when she lost Jack. “But man. When you lose a baby halfway through, your body just pauses. It has nothing to do. No one to feed. And you’re just … stuck. Stuck with saggy boobs that were prepping to be milk bags, a belly that was ready to bake,” she continued. “I would be lying if I said this did not majorly suck. Not only are you ummmm extremely, diabolically sad at what could have been, but you have this daily reminder every time you look in the goddamn mirror.”

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October 2021

In honor of Pregnancy Loss Awareness Week, Teigen shared a photo of herself just weeks after losing baby Jack, explaining that her depression came and went. “As I’ve said before, I absolutely threw myself into writing, quickly, to distract from the trauma, the pain, the grief,” she wrote via Instagram. “But not all days were productive. Many were … this. Days I felt suctioned to the couch with barely an appetite to even taste our recipes.”

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February 2022

The Cravings founder confirmed she was undergoing another egg retrieval to better help her chances of having a third child down the line. “I wanted to let you guys know I’m balls deep in another IVF cycle to save as many eggos as I possibly can and hopefully make some strong, healthy embryos,” the former Deal or No Deal model wrote via Instagram. “I honestly don’t mind the shots, they make me feel like a doctor/chemist but the bloating is a bitch, so I humbly beg you to stop asking if I’m pregnant because while I know it’s said with excited, good intentions, it just kind of sucks to hear because I am the opposite of pregnant!”

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March 2022

Teigen revealed that she had completed another IVF cycle one month after sharing the news that she was on the road to another egg retrieval. “I finished my IVF part, so I feel so much healthier and so much better with that,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the time.

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August 2022

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model announced she is pregnant via social media. “1 billion shots later (in the leg lately, as u can see!) we have another on the way,” she captioned two snaps of her growing baby bump. “So far, everything is perfect and beautiful and I’m feeling hopeful and amazing. Ok phew it’s been very hard keeping this in for so long!”

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September 2022

Two years after the loss of son Jack, Teigen revealed that her miscarriage at 20 weeks was actually an abortion. "Let's just call it what it was. ... "[It was] 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," she said during Propper Daley's A Day of Unreasonable Conversation Summit, adding that the "medical intervention" was one of many "difficult and heartbreaking decisions" she and Legend made at the time.

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December 2022

Teigen poked fun at her never-ending pregnancy — and fans' reactions to it — with an Instagram upload that highlighted her bare bump in a bikini. “‘Omg I feel like she’s been pregnant foreverrrrrr’ how do you think I feel thank u,” the model quipped in the caption.