Chrissy Teigen is opening up about why she turned to Ozempic after losing her son Jack to miscarriage.
“I had two babies and then I lost a baby a little over 20 weeks,” Teigen explained on her “Self-Conscious” podcast. “My body was just completely stuck. It was like in shock, almost.”
Teigen admits the miscarriage, which took place in 2020, led her into a “deep depression of seeing this pregnant belly with no baby in it.”
“I really let myself indulge when I was pregnant. 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 39-year-old revealed that following the pregnancy, the weight gain served as a reminder of the miscarriage.
“And then all of a sudden, was finally able to lose the weight that was so reminding me of the baby that I had lost.”
The cookbook author also noted how the type 2 diabetes medication helped her to change her relationship with food.
“I felt released from the prison of thinking about food in bad ways. Good food in bad ways,” she said. “I would think of an avocado as bad. I mean, it’s insane what it did for not only like me physically, but mentally.”
In an interview with People on Saturday, Teigen says she revealed her Ozempic use because “it’s not about pretending to be perfect, it’s about being open and honest about what it feels to make you feel better.”
Teigen continued, “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.”
“I knew it would really resonate and make a lot of people feel a lot better about their families, themselves, their own bodies.”
Teigen and husband John Legend share four kids in addition to the memory of their son, Jack: 9-year-old Luna, 7-year-old Miles, and Esti and Wren, both born in 2023. Wren was born in June by surrogate, six months after Teigen gave birth to Esti.
