Chrissy Teigen covers the June issue of Cosmo. She’s had a pretty sweet year. She married her long-term man, John Legend, in Italy and covered Martha Stewart’s weddings. She also showed off her booty on the SI: Swim cover. Chrissy is absolutely thrilled to gracing Cosmo and and Instagrammed her excitement: “I used to put myself on this cover in mall photo booths and now it’s real.” I like how she doesn’t even pretend to be unimpressed about scoring this cover. She’s excited and doesn’t mind geeking out in front of the world. That’s pretty much her entire attitude towards life.

Cosmo did three covers for this issue that all feature Chrissy. She talks a lot in the interview about John and how she “played it cool for a long time” to snag him. That sounds like a smart strategy because musicians must deal with plenty of overeager fans who don’t play it cool. Chrissy set herself apart from the crowd, and she and John are obviously happy together. Here are some excerpts:

On hooking up with John Legend on the set of his hit 2009 single “Stereo” & building their relationship: “I’m not going to lie. We hooked up. [When he went on tour] I left him be himself for a while. The worst thing you can do is try to lock someone like that down early on, then have them think, There’s so much more out there. I played it cool for a long time. Never once did I ask, ‘What are we?’ Marriage was never my goal, because I’ve never been very traditional. I was just happy to be with him.”

On their PDA style: “We’re by no means freaky-deaky, but let’s just say, we’re open to things. We’re very okay with PDA. When we go to a restaurant, he loves when I wear a dress, so he can do some upper-thigh rubbing.”

On the craziest place they’ve done it: “We were on our way to Thailand to see my parents, flying commercial first-class. We were under a blanket. We weren’t even in one of those pod things. I feel like we should get a trophy for that.”

On making a name for herself: “I got so lucky that I met Brooklyn Decker and she [hooked me up with] Sports Illustrated. I got so lucky that I met John, who propelled my career. I’m not delusional: that definitely helped.”

[From Cosmo]

Dude, Chrissy and John totally joined the mile-high club in first class. They probably had more room to do it in first class than in those awful airplane bathrooms. If everyone else was asleep during an overseas flight, there’s no harm in getting busy together. It would be mortifying to be caught, but the threat of discovery must be part of the thrill.

Chrissy also does well by coming out and saying she knows John helped her career. She probably would have gotten the SI cover without him — SI adore her so much — but yeah, she’s had a boost otherwise. She’s fine with that, and so is John.

Photos courtesy of Eric Ray Davidson & Cosmopolitan