Teigen’s clapbacks have no equal
There is probably something more productive, healthy or educational to do with your time than scrolling through Chrissy Teigen’s social media feed for her inevitable clapbacks.
But more entertaining? Seriously doubtful.
Every week it seems the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model turned cookbook author turned host of “Lip Sync Battle” must put commenters in their place who dare say something nasty about her or her children.
The only hard part is choosing the best roasts. Here are our favorites:
‘Scroll on by’
Teigen posted a funny photo of herself breastfeeding her then-7-week-old son, Miles, as daughter Luna, 2, held a baby blanket, and she naturally got a reaction. Clad in a towel with a baby doll held to her other breast, she wrote on Instagram, “Luna making me feed her babydoll so I guess I have twins now.”
One Twitter user wrote: “Menstruating, childbirth and sex are natural, too, but that doesn’t mean I want to see pics of it and/or celebrities like @chrissyteigen taking a bath or nursing. We get it.”
Teigen responded that she, too, had things that she didn’t care to see shared. But there is a feature specifically for that on social media.
“I don’t care to see grainy fireworks, coachella selfies or infinity pool pics but i let people live. calm your (expletive) and scroll on by.”
Breast to bottle to burn
People weren’t done with the breastfeeding shaming. When she turned to bottle feeding, people had something to say about that, too. Husband John Legend posted a pic on his Instagram of Teigen bottle-feeding then-5-month-old son Miles backstage at “The Voice.”
A fan had the whiff of mom-shaming when asking, “You no longer breastfeed?”
The mom shot back: “John never breastfed Miles.” Snort.
In defense of in vitro fertilization
Teigen and Legend have been open about fertility struggles, saying that IVF helped them get pregnant with daughter Luna and later with son Miles.
Some people criticized her decision. She responded the Chrissy way.
One Twitter user asked: “Did you give it a minute to try naturally or are you avoiding ‘the act?’ ”
“Hi Linda, thanks for asking, you complete witch. I tried for about 9 years. Anything else, let me know!”
A diss for dinner out
After having a baby, you should be home with that baby. Every. Single. Minute. At least some people think so. Teigen and Legend stepped out for dinner two weeks after Luna’s birth, and for some, that was much too soon. People let the former model know it.
A passive-aggressive inquirer asked, “how’s baby Luna?”
She answered: “I dunno i can’t find her.”
Baby bump smackdown
You can use words like “respect” and include smiley emojis, but Teigen’s not buying it.
A Twitter user shared a photo from the 2018 Emmys of Teigen and Legend and asked in the “utmost respectful” way if she was pregnant.
“I just had a baby but thank you for being soooo respectful,” she responded.
Wasted on red wine
The author of “Cravings“loves to cook and finds comfort in food. Remember her taking an “emotional support” casserole on a plane?
She cooked up a red-wine braised lamb with sweet potato mash for her family and shared it on Twitter. Yum!
Someone was concerned about giving Luna food that contained alcohol. While others in her Twitter feed came to Teigen’s defense, saying the alcohol is burned off during the cooking, she chose a more sarcastic response to the since-deleted user.
“Yeah, she gets wasted and sleeps all through the night.”
Fat-shaming doesn’t hurt
Teigen shared that she carried some extra weight after the birth of her son in 2018 because she loves food too much. But she added that she was happier than after Luna’s birth when she suffered postpartum depression.
So when one Twitter user came for her, saying “chubby needs to get to the gym,” Teigen suggested that he look in the mirror.
“I hate to say this but ... you are not a small person? also I don’t care about my weight soooo this does not hurt.”
Part of a plot to prove parent sleep not crucial
Chrissy isn’t always clapping back at commenters, but she takes to social media with some slow-clap-worthy parenting zings.
Once she wondered why it is that kids who can barely keep their eyes open fight with everything they have to stay awake.
“My biggest parenting conundrum: why is it so hard to put someone who is already sleepy to sleep,” she tweeted.
Why the caged baby zings mom
Two months before Luna was born, the mom wrote that it felt like the baby was a prisoner waiting to bust out.
“Does the baby have access to my ribs?” she tweeted. “It fees like they’re bars and she’s an old timey prisoner with a tin mug.”
Modeling is not racist
Teigen slams the famous, too. She and Legend got into some spats with pundit Piers Morgan in 2016. One came after Morgan posted an insensitive tweet after the death of Muhammad Ali.
The Twitter tiff raged for a while until Morgan sarcastically joked that maybe he, too, should become a model.
“Maybe I should take up a proper job, like modelling?”
Teigen responded: “It keeps me nice and not racist so sure, give it a go.”
Remember, you’re packing diapers for two now
After giving birth to Luna, Teigen tweeted in 2016, “no one told me i would be coming home in diapers too.”
Not relishing that hot dog smell
Sometimes the food lover loved it all too much and she thought she might pull back and consider the type of food she eats and drinks more thoughtfully.
So she turned to her online support group.
“SOBER AND HEALTHY WEEK STARTS NOW,” she tweeted. “(I feel like if I tweet this, I’ll actually stick to it.) I smell like hot dogs.”
Till death do us part and then some
Teigen also has some delightful marriage advice. She and Legend were married in September 2013, and Chrissy made it clear she was Legend’s one and only, even if something should something happen to her. She tweeted just before their first anniversary in August 2014, “I always have a note in my pocket that says “john did it” just in case I’m murdered because I don’t want him to remarry. #truelove #tips.”
Chrissy, you’re a legend, but not a Legend . ... Why?
For some reason, when Teigen answers a question with a question, it’s the funniest response ever. Teigen did this when fans debated why she didn’t take her musician/composer husband’s name. They venture all sorts of guesses: Too much paperwork. She’s a professional with a body of work tied to her current name. This isn’t the 1950s.
Legend’s actual name is John Rogers Stephens. One fan wanted to know on Twitter, “I’d really like to hear the reasoning behind women who won’t take their husband’s last name.”
She responded: “My husband didn’t even take his last name?”