Chrissy Teigen Lost Her Baby After Folks Trashed Her “TMI” Tweet
By: Shannon Ashley
Tags: Health, Society, Culture, Mental Health, Women

Chrissy Teigen Lost Her Baby After Folks Trashed Her “TMI” Tweet

And that’s exactly why her brand of vulnerability matters.

Chrissy Teigen | Twitter

As I scrolled through Twitter a couple of days ago, I caught one of Chrissy Teigen’s tweets, and some of the responses were appalling.

Writing an update on her pregnancy with husband John Legend, Chrissy wrote:

Just had a really scary morning 😩 huge clot, almost save-worthy. The scramble to hear the heartbeat seemed like hours. I never thought I’d relief sigh so much in my liiiiife

One user who calls themselves “Rob” asked,

Why post such personal information on this or any other public platform?

Another user going by the name of “Jack” chimed in too:

I wouldnt come on social media to talk abo[ut] my root canal either. Tbh I don’t see the need to tell anyone my business

Then, there was Hautechick69:

Just because you have a gazillion followers doesn’t mean you should post EVERYTHING at ALL TIMES. Sometimes you have to have class.

Someone called Cheryl wrote:

I’m all about sharing personal information like this w/close friends who could offer support, but to put it on the internet for complete strangers to see? Why would u want to share such a personal thing w/thousands of total strangers? Boundaries? Sincerely glad all is well though

The audacity of Rob and company enraged me. I sarcastically tweeted:

Um, can we get a list of approved topics of conversation for women on social media, please? White men, I know you’re just itching to put in your six cents 🤦‍♀️

And in another tweet, I wrote:

Some white dude on a horse (that’s literally his Twitter profile pic) tried shaming @chrissyteigen for talking about a miscarriage scare bc that’s "so personal." Now ask me why I’m such a "TMI" writer. Bc there are men who think they know what women shouldn’t talk about.

The saddest thing about all of this is that Chrissy and John wound up losing the baby. After that first tweet about the blood clot scare, Chrissy posted two more heartbreaking updates. The first contained these two images:

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We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions," the post said. It just wasn’t enough. We never decide on our babies' names until the last possible moment after they’re born, right before we leave the hospital. But we, for some reason, had started to call this little guy in my belly Jack. So he will always be Jack to us. Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever. 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. We will always love you. Thank you to everyone who has been sending us positive energy, thoughts and prayers. We feel all of your love and truly appreciate you. On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.

The second update was this:

Driving home from the hospital with no baby. How can this be real.

After the updates, thousands of fans and followers expressed their condolences, yet others still felt the need for trash talk.

Dr. Jen Gunter replied, “There is nothing worse. I’m so sorry.” And then this happened:

Tweet text:

You’re wrong. There IS something worse. When the baby dies, but on purpose, at the mothers’ choosing. That’s much, much worse.

Reading that, I just about lost it. I understand that this is just one of the millions of social media interactions that happen in a flash, but it’s one more reminder that pro-lifers (oxymoron, I know) across the country will use any excuse to bring up abortion. Even to downplay another woman’s pregnancy loss.

God. Sometimes, I hate social media.