(Los Angeles) Model Chrissy Teigen, who publicly recounted the trauma of her “miscarriage” in 2020, said Thursday that she realized it was actually a therapeutic abortion, when the right to abortion is at the heart of political debates in the country.
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“I told the whole world I had a miscarriage, the whole world acknowledged I had a miscarriage, all the headlines said I had a miscarriage,” Ms.me Teigen at a conference, according to American media The Hollywood Reporter.
“Let’s call a spade a spade: it was an abortion,” she added. “A life-saving abortion due to a baby that had absolutely no chance (of surviving). »
“I feel silly that it took more than a year to figure out that it was actually an abortion,” the star detailed.
The model has indeed said to have become aware of it thanks to her husband, the singer John Legend, after the decision of the very conservative Supreme Court of the United States to dynamite the right to abortion last June.
Chrissy Teigen, who is a mother of two and pregnant again, had shared the news of what she then thought was a miscarriage in September 2020 through several emotional posts on social media.
The television presenter and cookbook author notably posted a photo of herself lying on a hospital bed, hugging her stillborn baby, alongside her husband.
The statements of the star had been welcomed by personalities and anonymous people who considered that it contributed to breaking a taboo.
But Chrissy Teigen had also been harshly criticized by others, who felt that she shared too intimate details.
She met John Legend, multi-award-winning singer known for your hit All of Me, on the set of one of his clips. The couple married in 2013.