Chrissy Teigen Said She's Realized She Had A Life-Saving Abortion With Her Third Child And Felt "Silly" That It Took Her "Over A Year" To Understand It Wasn't A Miscarriage

“I told the world we had a miscarriage... I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion.”

Chrissy Teigen Said She’s Realized She Had A Life-Saving Abortion With Her Third Child And Felt “Silly” That It Took Her “Over A Year” To Understand It Wasn’t A Miscarriage

Back in October 2020, Chrissy Teigen and her husband, John Legend, announced that they’d lost their third child at 20 weeks following pregnancy complications.

“To our Jack – I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive,” she continued.

Several weeks later, Chrissy wrote a blog post explaining that she had been induced to deliver Jack at 20 weeks after being diagnosed with partial placental abruption. This is when the placenta begins to come away from the inside of the womb.

Last month, Chrissy — who shares 6-year-old Luna and 4-year-old Miles with John — revealed that she’s pregnant again, nearly two years after losing Jack.

“The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our home and hearts again. 1 billion shots later (in the leg lately, as u can see!) we have another on the way,” she wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of herself flaunting her baby bump.

“Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack… I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions,” she said, per the Hollywood Reporter.

“It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention,” she pulged.

Chrissy went on to reveal that she’s now realized that she had a medical induction abortion, not a miscarriage, though didn’t understand until this year. These abortions are mainly used after 16 weeks of pregnancy, using medication to induce labor and delivery in pregnancies with birth defects or complications.

“Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion,” she said. “An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago.”

Chrissy purportedly went on to note that she only understood she’d had an abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer, and that John had been the one to help her make sense of it.

Chrissy said that after telling John she felt sympathy toward those who’ve had an abortion and the emotional pain behind it, he explained to her that she too was one of those people.

“I fell silent, feeling weird that I hadn’t made sense of it that way,” she said. “I told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage.”

“I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion,” she shared.

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