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John Legend and Chrissy Teigen person defined narration goals since their precise archetypal gathering successful 2006. The brace person been done rather a batch unneurotic implicit the years, including the nonaccomplishment of their baby portion Chrissy was 5 months large and the terrible backlash against Chrissy erstwhile it was discovered that she cyberbullied model Courtney Stodden when she was a teen. Still, the mates has enjoyed unthinkable highs together, specified arsenic the births of each 4 of their children — 2 of which were calved successful 2023!
They celebrated their ninth wedding day successful Sept. 2022, and seemed arsenic successful emotion arsenic ever arsenic they paid tribute to 1 different connected societal media. John, 43, released a opus called “Wonder Woman” that featured him singing shirtless astir Chrissy, 37, who co-starred successful the video. “I joined my Wonder Woman 9 years agone today. Happy Anniversary, my love. You ne'er cease to amaze me,” helium wrote successful the caption. In grant of their beauteous relationship, instrumentality a look astatine their romance timeline below.
How Did John And Chrissy Meet?
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend successful his 2006 euphony video for ‘Stereo’ (Photo: Vevo)
John and Chrissy archetypal met connected the acceptable of the singer’s euphony video for his opus “Stereo,” from his 2006 album Once Again. The video featured the then-21-year-old exemplary arsenic John’s emotion interest. Throughout the ocular accompaniment to John’s track, the brace appeared incredibly smitten, with John decked retired successful a afloat suit portion Chrissy sported a acceptable of lingerie. After filming, they spent the full time together, and erstwhile Chrissy went to accidental goodbye to John, they simply couldn’t fto the different go. From there, the 2 stayed successful interaction for much than a year, earlier they yet decided to marque their romance official.
“We were connected a euphony video acceptable each time together, and past I went to 1 of his shows, and…yeah!” Chrissy recalled astir the beginnings of their saccharine narration during a 2018 appearance connected Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.
In 2021, John gave much penetration into their emotion communicative via an animated cartoon (seen HERE) helium created to observe Valentine’s Day. “We had chemistry connected the video shoot. We hung retired that night. We stayed successful interaction implicit substance and implicit the telephone … we’d conscionable up whenever I came to LA,” helium explained. “I would substance her and she would conscionable constitute maine the funniest replies and she would ever marque maine laugh, ever marque maine smile. And, each clip that I was distant from her … I started to miss her.”
He revealed helium knew helium was successful emotion with Chrissy during “the astir cleanable trip” to Villa d’Este successful Italy’s Lake Como. The brace went connected to speech their wedding vows successful Lake Como.
Red Carpet Official
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend seen retired successful June 2008, 4 months aft their reddish carpet debut (Photo: AP Images)
In Feb. 2008, aft astir a twelvemonth of concealed dates and their picturesque 2007 travel to Lake Como, Chrissy and John made their reddish carpet debut astatine the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Although John was not nominated that year, the juncture presented the cleanable accidental for the mates to officially corroborate their romance. By this point, the vocalist was already a decorated artist, having won 5 Grammys successful years prior. In the years since, Chrissy has consistently wowed the reddish carpet with her stunning looks, and supported John with each caller information and win.
Here Comes The Bride
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend successful November 2012, astir 1 twelvemonth pursuing their engagement (Photo: AP Images)
Five years aft they met, John and Chrissy took their romance to the adjacent level. In Dec. 2011, during a romanticist getaway to the Maldives, John asked Chrissy to wed him. The romanticist helium is, John orchestrated a large uncover for Chrissy to find the engagement ring: It was beneath a metallic dome that, erstwhile removed, revealed the container holding the stunning ringing connected a sheet during their meal together.
The “Preach” vocalist antecedently confessed that Chrissy astir discovered his connection program portion going done information astatine the airdrome earlier their peculiar trip. “[The ring] was successful my carry-on container going done the airdrome security, and information wanted to look done my container and they wanted to look successful that peculiar box,” helium said during a 2013 quality on Oprah’s Next Chapter.
“And Chrissy was lasting close adjacent to maine and I was, like, oh, my God. I’ve hid it truthful good this full time. Now arsenic we’re conscionable astir to get to the Maldives she’s going find retired I person a ringing successful this container and it’s going to ruin the astonishment and I’ll person to get connected my knees successful the airport,” helium added. Luckily, information decided to disregard the ringing box, and John’s program stayed successful tact.
John And Chrissy Say ‘I Do’
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend seen connected September 5, 2013 (Photo: AP Images)
The lovebirds tied the knot successful a quiet, backstage courthouse ceremonial successful Sept. 2013. This was followed by a stunning speech of vows successful beforehand of friends and household astatine Lake Como successful Italy, wherever the mates vacationed years prior. One period later, successful Oct. 2013, John released the euphony video for his deed track, “All Of Me.” Just similar successful “Stereo” erstwhile they archetypal met, Chrissy was John’s starring lady. The last fewer moments of the euphony video besides featured backstage footage of the couple’s Lake Como ceremony. Adorable!
A Family Of Three
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend astatine the Oscars connected Feb 27, 2016, erstwhile Chrissy was large with Luna (Photo: SplashNews)
Two years aft they became hubby and wife, John and Chrissy announced that they were expecting their archetypal child. Chrissy adjacent took to her ain Instagram relationship to share the news. “We’re truthful excited that it’s yet happening. Thank you for each your emotion and good wishes. I look guardant to each the belly touching,” an excerpt from Chrissy’s caption read. The mates besides shared that they chose to conceive done successful vitro fertilization (IVF) aft having trouble becoming pregnant. In April 2016, the mates welcomed their babe girl, Luna.
Luna has since grown into a caring older sister (more connected that below), which the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit exemplary gushed astir successful a March 2023 Instagram post. “told Luna to instrumentality attraction of the location portion I was gone and she truly did,” Chrissy wrote alongside respective photos of Luna holding her babe sister and spending clip with her brother, Miles. Check the precious images retired below:
A New Addition
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend seen connected April 28, 2018, erstwhile Chrissy was large with lad Miles (Photo: SplashNews)
Just implicit 1 twelvemonth aft John and Chrissy welcomed saccharine Luna into the world, they announced that Chrissy was expecting the couple’s 2nd child. This time, Luna got successful connected the announcement fun. Chrissy posted a video to her Instagram account, asking Luna what was successful her belly. “A baby,” was Luna’s emphatic response. In Jan. 2018, the mates confirmed the enactment of their child: They were expecting a boy. By May of that year, small Miles was welcomed into the world. Ever since, Miles and Luna person been adorable staples connected Chrissy’s Instagram page.
In 2021, Chrissy said she is teaching Miles to beryllium successful interaction with his emotions to debar him falling unfortunate to the stern antheral stereotype. “Miles is precise emotional. He’s a batch similar maine too,” she told PEOPLE. “He wears his bosom connected his sleeve, and we clasp that. I deliberation much men should clasp their emotions. I deliberation that’s truly important successful this world. That it’s good to cry, and it’s good to beryllium upset astir thing oregon to beryllium bittersweet astir something. We’re going to speech it done and it’s okay.”
She added, “There is nary ‘Be a man’ successful our house. There’s nary close mode to beryllium a man, and John is truthful bully astir showing them done however helium treats maine however to beryllium a bully man, however to beryllium a bully father. It’s fantastic to see.”
Hope & Heartbreak
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend seen connected Feb. 28, 2020 a fewer months earlier the announcement of Chrissy’s 3rd gestation (Photo: SplashNews)
John and Chrissy announced that they were expecting their 3rd child successful Aug. 2020. The large quality came arsenic a surprise, arsenic it was announced successful John’s euphony video for “Wild.” But sadly, John and Chrissy would acquisition unimaginable heartbreak. In the precocious hours of Sept. 30, Chrissy bravely shared that she had suffered a miscarriage, aft weeks of bedrest and humor transfusions during her gestation with the couple’s son, who they named Jack. Following the tragic news, Chrissy and John received emotion and condolences from throngs of personage friends and fans.
Chrissy was precise unfastened astir the unimaginable grief she felt pursuing the nonaccomplishment of Jack, and successful Sept. 2021 (one twelvemonth aft the miscarriage), Chrissy wrote an affectional Instagram caption to grant Jack. Alongside a representation of her crying successful her infirmary furniture with John kneeling adjacent to her, she wrote, “and to the lad we astir had. a twelvemonth agone you gave maine the top symptom I could ever ideate to amusement maine I could past anything, adjacent if I didn’t privation to”.
“i didn’t get to instrumentality attraction of you but you came and went to get maine to emotion myself and instrumentality attraction of myself due to the fact that our bodies are precious and beingness is simply a miracle,” she went on. “they told maine it would get easier but yeah, that hasn’t started yet. ma and dada emotion you forever.”
In 2022, the Cravings by Chrissy Teigen laminitis revealed that the nonaccomplishment of Jack astatine astir 5 months large was really a medically indispensable abortion. “Two years ago, erstwhile I was large with Jack, John and my 3rd child, I had to marque a batch of hard and heartbreaking decisions,” she began during an quality astatine Propper Daley’s summit, A Day of Unreasonable Conversation, connected Thursday, September 15, per The Hollywood Reporter. “It became precise wide astir halfway done that helium would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without immoderate aesculapian intervention.”
“Let’s conscionable telephone it what it was: It was an abortion. An termination to prevention my beingness for a babe that had perfectly nary chance. And to beryllium honest, I never, ever enactment that unneurotic until, actually, a fewer months ago,” Chrissy admitted.
Chrissy noted that she made the realization erstwhile Roe v. Wade was overturned. “I told the satellite we had a miscarriage, the satellite agreed we had a miscarriage, each the headlines said it was a miscarriage,” she noted. “And I became truly frustrated that I didn’t, successful the archetypal place, accidental what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken maine implicit a twelvemonth to really recognize that we had had an abortion.”
Baby No. 3
Chrissy amazed fans erstwhile connected Aug. 3, 2022, she announced she was respective months into her 4th pregnancy. “The past fewer years person been a blur of emotions to accidental the least, but joyousness has filled our location and hearts again,” she captioned reflector selfies that showed her bare babe bump. “1 cardinal shots aboriginal (in the limb lately, arsenic u tin see!) we person different connected the way. Every assignment I’ve said to myself, ‘ok if it’s steadfast contiguous I’ll announce’ but past I respire a suspiration of alleviation to perceive a heartbeat and determine I’m conscionable excessively tense still.”
“I don’t deliberation I’ll ever locomotion retired of an assignment with much excitement than nerves but truthful far, everything is cleanable and beauteous and I’m feeling hopeful and amazing,” the exemplary and media property added. “Ok phew it’s been precise hard keeping this successful for truthful long!”
Chrissy and the 12-time Grammy victor became parents again connected Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Chrissy shared the first authoritative photo of her caller babe girl, named Esti, connected Jan. 19. “She’s here! Esti Maxine Stephens – the location is bustling and our household could not beryllium happier,” she wrote alongside a photograph of Luna and Miles holding their caller babe sister. “Daddy sheds nightly tears of joyousness seeing Luna and Miles truthful afloat of love, and I americium learning you inactive request diapers with a c section!? We are successful bliss. Thank you for each the emotion and good wishes – we consciousness it all! X”.
Baby No. 4
Surprise! Just 5 months aft welcoming babe Esti, Chrissy and John welcomed different babe boy into their household via surrogate. Chrissy confirmed connected June 28, 2023 that she and John welcomed a son, Wren Alexander Stephens, connected June 19. In a lengthy but heartfelt enactment to Instagram, Chrissy revealed that she and John had primitively planned to person 2 surrogates transportation a babe astatine the came time, truthful she could implicit her lifelong imagination of being a parent of four. However, aft a therapy session, she decided she wanted to effort to transportation 1 much time.
When she was a fewer months on with Esti, Chrissy and John learned that their surrogate, Alexandra, was large with a babe boy. She besides spoke straight to Alexandra successful her post. “We privation to accidental convey you for this unthinkable acquisition you person fixed us, Alexandra,” she said, aft calling her the “most incredible, loving, compassionate surrogate.” She added, “And we are truthful blessed to archer the satellite helium is here, with a sanction everlastingly connected to you, Wren Alexander Stephens.”
“Our hearts, and our home, are officially full,” Chrissy continued, wrapping up her post. “And to Jack, we cognize some their Angel kisses are from you.”
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