Chrissy Teigen won’t stand for anyone fertility shaming her over struggles to have another baby with husband John Legend.
The queen of clap backs made that clear with her reply to a Twitter troll demanding to know if she “gave it a minute to try naturally or are you avoiding ‘the act’?” Teigen responded, “Thanks for asking, you complete witch. I tried for about 9 years. Anything else, let me know!”
One in 10 women of childbearing age in the U.S. have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Model and TV host Teigen, 31, has been open about her fertility struggles. She and singing star Legend have a nine-month-old daughter, Luna, conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) in which an egg is fertilized by sperm in a test tube. And although she is not pregnant again now, she tweeted “our next baby would be a boy because that is the embryo we have left.”
The couple used a procedure called Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) which makes it possible to determine the sex of an embryo. Embarking on IVF, the couple chose a girl embryo and were blessed with their daughter Luna.
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The “Lip Sync Battle” co-host met Legend on the set of his 2007 music video “Stereo” and they were married in 2013 but had been trying to conceive for a long time.
“We would have kids five, six years ago if it’d happened … but my gosh, it’s been a process!” she revealed on “FABLife” in 2015.
On the same talk show she spoke up for other women going through fertility struggles, adding, “Anytime anybody asks me if I’m going to have kids I’m like, ‘One day you’re going to ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it’s going to be really hurtful to them. And I hate that. So, I hate it. Stop asking me!”
Showing what a huge issue fertility shaming has become, one Facebook post on the topic by writer Emily Bingham was shared 40,000 times.
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