There’s the obvious things we all know about Chrissy Teigen, like how hilarious she is and how she can clap back at haters like there’s no tomorrow.
But then, there are the other little-known facts that will surprise the heck out of you, like how Barack Obama helped name her first baby!
Keep reading for 14+ things to know about the Twitter clap back queen herself!
She was first discovered at a surf shop.
Surf’s up!
Despite always wanting to be a teacher, modeling sort of just fell in her lap while she was working at a surf shop in California.
She met her husband, John Legend, on the set of his music video.
In 2006, Teigen was hired as the love interest in Legend’s for the music video “Stereo.”
They ended up talking the entire shoot and even went out for In-N-Out afterward. Ah, love!
Oh yeah, and Teigen casually admitted that they hooked up , too.
For a while, she didn’t have an interest in food.
Say what?
It’s crazy enough to think that anyone doesn’t like food, but it’s even weirder for Teigen to admit since she ended up releasing two cookbooks!
She was once fired from a Forever 21 shoot for being “too fat.”
The nerve.
She was even sitting in the makeup chair when it happened.
She doesn’t like shopping for herself.
Babies end up changing a lot about your life.
That’s clearly what happened to Teigen who revealed that she doesn’t like shopping for herself anymore since shopping for her kids is so much more fun!
I think a lot of parents can relate to that!
She was once one of the models of “Deal or no Deal”.
Just like Meghan Markle, Teigen got all dolled up and flashed open a briefcase from time to time.
At one point, they even worked together on the same episodes!
She absolutely hates Nutella.
We’re starting to think we can’t be besties with her anymore…
She even went on a Twitter tirade, professing her dislike for the hazelnut-y goodness.
She will never get divorced because she doesn’t want another woman raising her children.
She’s one protective mama!
“I told [John] the number one reason we are not getting divorced is because I refuse to see another woman with my baby,” she told Us Weekly in 2017.
John tried breaking up with her once, but she refused.
Now that’s one way to stop a breakup from happening.
“That [breakup] lasted for one day,” she told Cosmopolitan . “Literally, a day. I knew it came from a place other than us not working… I always joke, ‘Remember when you tried to break up with me?’ He’s like, ‘Yes, sorry. Big mistake.’”
Her mom lives with the fam.
Teigen has said she is “so lucky” to always have her mom, Vilailuck, around.
She’s often pictured on Chrissy’s Instagram, especially with the kids, since she helps out a lot.
Aww, John Legend wrote the song “All Of Me” for her before they got married.
The music video was even shot in Lake Como, the place where they eventually got married.
Barack Obama helped her pick out her baby’s name.
Chrissy and the former President are basically BFF.
“I wanted to ask him because John isn’t sold on the name, so I figured if [Barack Obama] liked it, he would too,” she said while on the Stephen Colbert Show .
She’s living in RiRi’s old house and even admitted to opening up her mail.
That’s some confession since opening up someone’s mail is illegal!
“I really want to somehow give it back to her, so I tried to bring it to the Grammys and [husband John Legend] said, ‘No! That doesn’t look cool. Please don’t. You’re embarrassing me,’” she joked while on The Ellen DeGeneres Show . “Rihanna, you owe $18 to Bugatti, I think.”
She gets insecure about her body.
Despite being supermodel-level gorgeous, Teigen has cried over her “imperfections” before.
“There have been times I’ve cried to John, where I felt like I would just never have “that” body,” she told Glamour .
“I’ve definitely been really upset with…you know, everyone has a butt now, everyone has curves, and a little waist, and that’s not me.”
She once won a Tila Tequila lookalike contest!
It was on MySpace (hey, remember that?) that Tila had discovered her for one of her modeling contests.
