A few months back, Chrissy Teigen shared a picture of her thigh with bruises and stretch marks on it. At the time, Chrissy said, “I was actually just taking a picture of the bruises and then I saw the stretch marks in there. I have those apps, the Facetune and Photoshopping ones, and I just didn’t feel like doing it anymore—and I’m never doing it again, because I think we forgot what normal people look like now.” Chrissy gets an A+ for that last sentence. Chrissy is staying true to her word by just recently posting this to her Snapchat:
That is Chrissy thigh’s and those are her stretch marks – exposed and unedited. She just had her daughter Luna with husband John Legend four months ago. She told E! last month that she was being sensible about getting back in shape. “You just realize you have to give yourself time and understand that you push out a baby, and it took this long to put on the weight, and it’s not going to peel right off, and that’s OK. Enjoy your baby. Don’t go crazy.”
I love this, I love Chrissy’s take that this is what the body looks like, it’s natural and shouldn’t be seen as anything but normal. However, one question about Chrissy’s telling us not worry about post-baby weight: uhm, what? This is what Chrissy looked like in July, when she gave her weight quote. And remember when Corey posted this pic?
That was taken three weeks post delivery. It took me six years of diet and exercise to even get in the adjacent zipcode of Chrissy’s body in that photo. I have no problem with a thin person promoting this message, we all are used to seeing ourselves in a certain way. I would, however, like Chrissy to be a little more self-aware in her comments. Somehow, when Liv Tyler said almost the same message, she was able to make it all-encompassing and relatable. But I’ll give Chrissy a pass this time because she’s chucked Photoshop for stretch marks. And because she posts beautiful pics like this, which is where I will be hanging out in my mind for the rest of the day:
Photo credit: WENN and Fame/Flynet Photos, Instagram and Snapchat
I like this girl and I LOVE her cook book.
I love it too!
I was given her cookbook by and friend and wasn’t expecting to like it very much, but oh. My. Goodness.
I’d never cared about a tuna melt at all until I saw the recipe and decided I must have it immediately. Then I cried thinking of all the time I’d lost having the same salad over and over again when I could have been eating that sandwich.
Now the tuna melt, the BLT with pineapple, and I are living happily ever after.
Hmmmm, I might have to check it out
She’s really good. She takes things that are kind of ordinary and puts them together in a way that will really impress you. It’s nice because none of the ingredients are difficult to find. My husband is to the point where he’s like what are you going to make next out of that cookbook? There are a couple people on Instagram who cook the entire cookbook if you want to see how they turn out without fancy food stylist making everything perfect. They still look really delicious. I made her lemon and bacon pasta, and she actually liked the picture
Oh neat!
Her cookbook is awesome!
and I won’t bash her for snapping back I have a friend that looked like she was never pregnant within weeks sans exercise. I believe she’s not like kim actively working out excessively and hiding out until the baby weight is gone
I LOVED her Cooking Channel special, “Chrissy Teigen’s Hungry,” she did with John a few years ago. I really hoped it would be picked up as a series, but that didn’t happen.
I’ll have to look for her cookbook. I always enjoyed her food blog, so I’m sure the cookbook is more of that same vibe.
I need to have a kid stat so I can have an excuse for my stretch marks…
–TheRealPinky
Me too! I’m glad you said that and i appreciate all these comments on here. It’s good to know other people have stretch marks and haven’t had kids. I thought that was not the norm, to have stretch marks and I hate them but reading on here, it seems like a lot of people do.
I got mine from just growing too fast in adolescence. No pregnancies. C’est la vie!
Hahaha. This! I’ve had stretch marks since I hit puberty.
Bless yer heart darlin’. I named the first one that showed up when I was pregnant with my daughter after Sarah Palin.
I know nothing about this chick except what I read here but I can’t help but like her ya know?
You know how there are some people you just like from their vibe? I like Megan Fox, Margot Robbie and this chick and I don’t like Hathaway, Scarlet Johannsen or Natalie Portman.
No rhyme or reason to it…just a vibe!
I am the same way, except I LOVE Hathaway, find Chrissy extremely annoying and feel like there’s somethig off about Margot.
Funnily enough, I like all six of those women. Also, Goop. I really enjoy Goop. Its the favorites here that I dislike; Blake Lively, Winona Ryder and Gwen Steffani. I actively have to avoid those articles because the positive comments there make my eye twitch.
Snowpea; if you love Margot you HAVE to
See her hilariously take down Will Smith in a BBC radio game called Playground Insults. I just about died over her last night. It was hilarious!!
Thank you for mentioning this! I just watched it on youtube and it’s hilarious. lol
Thank you so much for introducing this!! I laughed my ass off and then had to watch all the others!! Hilarious!!!
Same! I only know her from here, but she seems fun and cool.
I bounced back after 4 days and have a supermodel body, but I have 4 stretchmarks #relatable.
I can’t stand these faux relatable celebrities. I’d much rather hear Kate Hudson admit she worked out like a crazy person than this.
My question is, how soon will she have these stretch marks lasered off (or whatever you do to get rid of them)? She is a model and they will either photoshop them away or she will have them taken care of permanently.
Yeah, okay, I’m sure her heart is in the right place and she’s delivering a nice, positive message. But somehow I can’t with this.
She’s a freakin’ supermodel. She doesn’t HAVE to ‘go crazy’ to peel that weight off. ‘We should all give ourself time’ but somehow this does not apply to her, she just snaps right back into shape a few weeks after giving birth. It’s a strangely mixed message, though not exactly through Chrissy’s fault- she is who she is and her body looks the way it does, after all. But this says a lot about how we as a society look at and condemn women’s bodies: How everyone thinks it’s really brave an extremely gorgeous lady shows us un-photoshopped photos of her thighs. I mean, wow. If it’s so brave for HER, what chance do ordinary women have?
Because stretch marks for a model are probably the same level of worry as weight and mega stretch marks are for a regular lady. Ordinary women see a model showing her flaws, however minor you might deem them. I don’t see a mixed message. I do see alot of bitterness toward women who simply don’t gain much weight during pregnancy and/or are able to lose it really fast. I was like that. I only gained 30 some lbs but I was back in my old jeans 2 1/2 weeks after giving birth. I was in great shape when I became pregnant and I’m small anyway. The baby sucked all the weight out of my body through my boobs. LOL. We’re all different. Stop comparing and feeling the need to compete. It was a positive message. Let it be positive and don’t hold yourself to any standard because we’re all individuals.
Mine went to my boobs! I call them Spidey Boobs now.
It’s relatable to some women. Every woman who gives birth has seen her body change in ways that can feel scary and out of control.
I met a woman who has become my friend, we both have two year olds. She’s thin and I think of her figure as perfect. Recently she admitted to me that she’s very uncomfortable with her body and hasn’t gotten back to how she was pre-baby, and she feels like she can’t even tell anyone because she’s basically slim. But she has a different shape now (I guess she never had a little belly or shapely thighs before, stuff I never even would have noticed) and it’s hard for her, too. She wanted to be included with me and some other friends who were supporting each other in weight loss, but she was embarrassed to even ask for support.
I’m a heavy person and so people are understanding when I talk about my post-baby body struggles. It’s just as important for naturally thin women to feel good about their bodies and receive support for the changes. It may look small but when it’s YOUR body it can feel huge. So anyway, props to Chrissy.
THIS! My body changed after two kids. Yes, I am still slim, but there is this lower belly pouch that was never there before (and no matter how well I eat or how much I work out, it does not go away) and my boobs are sad and deflated and I am working on coming to terms with the way my body look now. I often feel like I can’t share my issues with other women because technically I do not really have much of an extra weight so I should not be complaining.
My thighs and breasts have been covered in stretch marks since I was a teenager… and I’ve never been overweight or given birth. Just gravity and growth spurts at work.
So if *this* is supposed to be inspiring, wtf would most people say about my body…
I just typed something the same but my comment is being modded for some reason. Never given birth either and I until I was twenty five, I weighed between 110 and 115.
Course I could just be feeling a little bit salty cause this chick annoys me.
You know, I’m the same way, and I actually find this comforting. Normal is normal.
Many celebrities never admit to any flaws, so I have to appreciate this. That’s where I got stretch marks too post-baby.
Pffft. I’ve had stretch marks on my ass since I was twelve.
She needs alot of attention.
She is SO annoying. One of my most despised “celebrities”. Why is she even famous? Because she married John Legend and they wanted a more diverse model. A couple billion more diverse people in the world and they picked this less than mediocre nothingburger? It wouldn’t even be too awful if she wasn’t so desperately parched. She needs an ocean of water to quench her Sahara level thirst! I can’t stand her! But….since people are saying her cookbook is good I will keep an eye out for it at the thrift stores or yard sales. Better get my sharpie ready to cover over her face so I don’t lose my appetite lol.
I’m glad she posted that. Even though she might look thin to us, she prob has some areas that haven’t gone back to her norm. We shouldn’t have on her cause she’s naturally thin. I’m glad she opened up the conversation. I have stretch marks and thought that was unusual since i haven’t had kids, but reading other people’s comments, I see I’m not the only one. I don’t see other women naked, lol, so sometimes you see all these perfect models, celebrities, etc and think you kinda don’t measure up. So when someone shows they’re not perfect either, it makes you feel better.
I got lucky in the genes department as my grandmother after three pregnancies and my mother after one pregnancy and lots of yo-yo dieting have never really had a stretch mark between them. I did get a few with this last pregnancy – thanks, twins! – but they’re pretty light and are already fading away pretty quickly with the help of cream. Lots and lots of cream. It’s pretty much the only thing I have to be thankful for genetically, so I’m taking what I get.
Kudos to Chrissy for giving up on photoshopping her candid photos, but honestly, you can’t see anything in the paparazzi photos, so it’s not like they’re hindering her. She knows she’s beautiful, the world knows she’s beautiful. Every chance she gets to be relatable, I swear. She should just relax and stop working so hard to get people to like her. She has the goods, but she just works too hard at it.
Each woman is different. A friend of mine, a month after giving birth was as thin and elegant as before getting pregnant. You would never say she just had a baby, never in life. And no, she’s not rich, she didn’t have surgery. She gained a little bit of weight during pregnancy (the limits the doctor told her was healthy) and that was it..
I was like that with my first. Took longer with my second probably because I basically got pregnant again right away. I have a belly but that’s just the shape my family has so it was inevitable. I made it a point to not care about what society says or thinks because I don’t really care and it’s a waste of time. I have a great life so it’s dumb for me to spend it on something that really doesn’t matter anyways. But I don’t have TV and don’t see movies or buy fashion/women’s magazines because all it does is try and sell you products and things by whipping up insecurities. No thanks. Not interested. The worst that happens now is I get the side eye for being “that weirdo” but that’s fine with me! 🙂
I know Chrissy gets a lot of heat, but I actually appreciate this. When I was coming of age in the 90’s, celebrities were seemingly perfect with their super slim bodies and I was a chunky developing girl who got stretch marks on my thighs, hips, butt, and boobs. I had a very unhealthy self image because no celebrities looked anything like me and I desperately wanted to be as thin as them. This is something I could’ve used when I was young. Especially considering that there are still tons of women out there who shame other women for having them, or claim that they ruin our bodies somehow.
Even if this was attention seeking behavior, I’m sure some girls somewhere will find comfort in seeing someone they look up to being cool with having stretch marks. My decision to just straight up disregard the Kardashians came when Kourtney was pregnant with her second kid and Kim played a trick on her by telling her she found a stretch mark and they both carried on about how they would “die” if they got them. I’m sure that made the millions of young girls who (stupidly) look up to them feel great considering most women get at least a few.
She rocks! I really respect her unedited life. I truly admire people who put it out there especially when they have a platform. I joke to my husband all the time that I’d make a social media account with ugly body parts and dirty areas in the house, that kind of raw honesty appeals to me rather than the usual ‘look at my perfect life’ photos. Show me the dust on your bookshelf, mold in your shower or wrinkly belly button and you get my seal of approval lol.