Chrissy Teigen has opened up more about her miscarriage in 2020.
The Hollywood Reporter claims that the businessman and cookbook author discussed the incident on Thursday at the “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation” symposium sponsored in Beverly Hills, California, by the social impact organization Propper Daley.
Teigen, who is now expecting a kid and shares husband John Legend’s two other young children, thought about the passing of their son, Jack.
“Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions,” the publication reported her saying at the summit. “It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention.”
Teigen claimed that after the recent Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court, she understood that what she had previously referred to as a miscarriage was actually an abortion.
“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.”
The “Lip Sync Battle” host had been admitted to the hospital a few days before she revealed her miscarriage due to significant bleeding.
“We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It was never enough,” she said in a statement shared on social media at the time.
In some states, there has been discussion about whether it should be permitted when the mother’s life is in danger.
According to Teigen, Legend helped her understand they were those people after a conversation with her husband about abortion and the sympathy she felt for people who must make an emotional decision to end a pregnancy.
“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. And 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.”
On Friday, Teigen tweeted about the THR article.
“I told you all we had a miscarriage because I thought that was what it was,” she wrote. “But it was an abortion, and we were heartbroken and grateful all at once. It just took me over a year to realize it.”
