Chrissy Teigen shares much of her life on the internet.
She has been very open about what it means to be a celebrity…
She talked about her breast implants…
She shared video of herself getting a COVID test…
Honestly loved it pic.twitter.com/UNRwG3HNcD
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 26, 2020
And when she miscarried her third child, Teigen shared intimate details and photos of the tragic experience.
Since then, she’s talked a lot about recovering from that loss, especially depression caused by grief.
Phew I just had a full on panic attack of more tear snot just knowing anyone read this. I’ve missed you all terribly. pic.twitter.com/A38rDfyms3
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) October 27, 2020
Teigen shares happy stuff, too.
On Saturday, Chrissy Teigen posted about how she had decided to take up horseback riding with a picture of her horse.
My therapist says I need something that I do for just me, as I have absolutely nothing currently lol. Today begins my journey into the horse world. I hope this dude likes me 😩 he’s so handsome and appears lazy, I love pic.twitter.com/1Ytejb4L6J
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 16, 2021
“My therapist says I need something that I do for just me, as I have absolutely nothing currently lol,” she wrote. “Today begins my journey into the horse world. I hope this dude likes me he’s so handsome and appears lazy, I love.”
While the model and cookbook author is beloved by friends because of her friendly personable style of Twitter communication, she has sometimes been accused of having a bit of obliviousness when it comes to her own wealth. For example, posting about how many AirPods her mom regularly loses like it was a funny joke and not hundreds of dollars in the toilet. This tweet was taken in the same way.
Teigen is a millionaire, with two beautiful children, married to John Legend, and she has “absolutely nothing currently”?
People were pretty offended to be reading that in the middle of a pandemic when unemployment is skyrocketing. They told her so:
When I want to do something just for me, I’ll have a scotch finger with my cup of coffee. Sometimes I even throw in a custard cream if I’m feeling really saucy
It must be nice to flaunt your wealth at a time when worldwide unemployment is at an all-time high
— ❤️ (@TheVandelay) January 16, 2021
“Absolutely nothing” is clearly a matter of perspective, I guess. Other people’s nothing’s sure seem a lot darker and inescapable right now. The “let them eat cake” inability to read a room is tiring.
— KS (@KevSpilker) January 16, 2021
A lot of people are unemployed and struggling to feed their family in the midst of a pandemic. Maybe now isn’t a great time to say you “have nothing” so you bought a horse to entertain yourself.
— Lady Long Limbs (@ladylonglimb) January 17, 2021
People are dying, ma’am.
Read the room.
— Valkyrie Thunderbitch (@ValkyrieLadyK) January 16, 2021
being rich is crazy. when my therapist suggested i get a hobby i bought a crochet hook https://t.co/UFxpwtBocb
— Molly Jordan (@mollyjblige) January 16, 2021
The criticism did reach Teigen, and she offered a bit more of an explanation.
She felt her tweet was misinterpreted. She didn’t mean she has nothing, she meant she has no hobbies or things she does just for herself, and her therapist thought finding something would help her recover from her loss.
a lot of u really misinterpreted this tweet and I guess that’s on me. I didn’t say I have nothing, I said I have nothing I do for just me. A convo with a therapist. A hobby. Cause I lost a baby. And I’m figuring myself out. And i didn’t buy a horse. But oh my god, what if I did? https://t.co/AYKI37VicV
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 18, 2021
She also clarified that she didn’t buy a horse, and that though she did include her family in her brand new solo hobby, she’s working on that:
lol I know. We talked about that today too. I was like “whoops, of course” haha
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 18, 2021
If you have the means to ride a horse now for your mental health, that seems like a fine thing to do. It’s not too surprising though that people who don’t have the means to do anything for their mental health are set off by a tweet about it.
In any case, the critical comments are far, far outweighed by people posting selfies with their horses and encouraging Teigen’s new hobby. Are horses more affordable than we think?!