Teigen the proud wife of sexiest man alive
Model Chrissy Teigen made a cryptic confession to her nearly 12 million Twitter followers: “I have big news and it’s killing me I can’t say it and it’s not a baby.”
About an hour later, the news broke: her husband, singer John Legend, had been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. “My secret is out,” she wrote alongside a photo of the annual issue’s cover, which depicts the 40-year-old (real name: John Stephens).
“The kids do not care,” she reported,sharing a video of 3-year-old Luna and 1-year-old Miles as they offered lacklustre reactions.
And she predicted that some outrage would follow. “I cannot WAIT for people to get mad about John being the sexiest man alive,” she wrote before tweeting a spicy response to one such critic.
Teigen also retweeted a selfdeprecating tweet from Legend, who shared a photo of himself as a bespectacled teen next to an alluring, more recent photo of last year’s Sexiest Man Alive, Idris Elba.
It wasn’t exactly a fair comparison, she conceded, noting that Elba was “prob still very hot” in the mid-90s. Legend likewise acknowledged in his
People interview that he had an “awkward phase,” particularly leading up to his years at his Ivy League alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.
The kicker to Teigen’s Twitter celebration arrived three hours after Teigen noted she had not-so-subtly tweaked her Twitter bio to reflect the news: “the sexiest man alive just made me a ham sandwich,” she wrote.
It’s been an eventful few months for the celebrity couple, who have been married since 2013. Teigen is well-known for her lively social media presence, particularly her willingness to confront trolls critiquing everything from her parenting approach to her appearance. Her clever comebacks found an even broader audience in September when President Donald Trump derided the couple on Twitter after seeing Legend, one of his most vocal celebrity critics, on an MSNBC special.