
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?
Mother’s Day Brunch – low and slow scrambled eggs, chicken and waffles and roasted bacon, oh my!
A photo posted by chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) on May 8, 2016 at 1:03pm PDT
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:
Happy to have friends as talented and cool and smart and PERFECT as @mrmikerosenthal. CC @jenatkinhair #perfecthusband #perfectperson #perfectionpersonified #personifiedperfection
A photo posted by chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) on Jul 23, 2016 at 8:04am PDT


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