Chrissy Teigen’s Keeping It Real About Ozempic — Even Wit…

Chrissy Teigen has built her public image around being candid, and that includes sharing the less glamorous parts of her life.

At Hello Sunshine’s Shine Away event in Los Angeles, the 39-year-old model explained why she went public about trying Ozempic—and why that honesty matters most to her children.

“I would want my daughter…or son, if Miles wants to venture into hair plug territory or something, I would want them to know that it’s not about pretending to be perfect,” Teigen told People. “It’s about being open and honest about what it feels to make you feel better.”

That commitment to transparency didn’t happen overnight. Teigen revealed that she first turned to the medication after suffering a miscarriage in 2020, when she and her husband John Legend lost their son Jack at 20 weeks.

The grief was compounded by the physical changes she experienced. On the Self-Conscious podcast in September, she recalled the difficulty of looking at her body in the months that followed. “I really let myself indulge when I was pregnant,” she said. “So, when I had lost that baby at 20 weeks, I had probably gained an extra 40 pounds that I wasn’t comfortable with.”

The weight itself wasn’t the central issue—Teigen described falling into a “deep depression of seeing this pregnant belly with no baby in it.” For her, Ozempic was one step toward regaining a sense of control during a period of intense loss.

Her choice to talk openly about the experience, she said, was driven by the same instinct that led her to share the miscarriage itself.

“Since the beginning of social media, I’ve always wanted people to know that things weren’t as fluffy and beautiful as they may seem,” Teigen explained. She hoped her honesty would help others “feel a lot better about their families, themselves, their own bodies.”

Of course, being so open comes with constant scrutiny. “People will say, ‘Are you pregnant?’ And then the next week…they’ll be like, ‘Well, why’d you do Ozempic? You’re too skinny,’” she noted. The shifting criticism, she said, makes it clear that “you could never win with anything.”