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Chrissy Teigen
American model and television personality
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| Born | Christine Diane Teigen (1985-11-30) November 30, 1985 (age 39) Delta, Utah, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
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| Children | 4 |
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| Agency | IMG Models (Worldwide) |
Christine Diane Teigen (born November 30, 1985) is an American model, television personality, and author. She made her professional modeling debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2010 and appeared on the 50th-anniversary cover alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge in 2014.
She formerly appeared as a panelist on the syndicated daytime talk show FABLife (2015–2016). She co-hosted the musical competition series Lip Sync Battle (2015–2019) with LL Cool J and was a judge on the comedy competition series Bring the Funny (2019). She co-hosted the comedic court show Chrissy's Court (2020–2022) with her mother. Teigen has also authored three cookbooks.
Early life
Christine Diane Teigen was born on November 30, 1985, in Delta, Utah, the daughter of Vilailuck (nicknamed "Pepper") and Ronald Leroy "Ron" Teigen. Her mother is from Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeast Thailand and her father is an American of Norwegian, German, and Sinti/Roma descent. Her surname is usually pronounced ; despite this, she stated that she prefers the pronunciation . Teigen discovered on Finding Your Roots that her distant cousins, who were Roma, were killed in the Holocaust in Auschwitz.
After she was born, she and her family relocated to Snohomish, Washington, where her parents ran a tavern. Her parents divorced in 2020. When Teigen was 15, her father relocated them to Huntington Beach, California, after her mother ret (1985-) Chrissy Teigen started modeling as a teenager, eventually landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue in 2010. She became an in-demand television personality, serving as host of the reality show Model Employee before finding her groove as a color commentator on the long-running Lip Sync Battle. Also a popular figure on Twitter with more than 12 million followers, Teigen has two children with husband John Legend. Christine Diane Teigen was born in Delta, Utah, on November 30, 1985, and spent much of her childhood in Seattle, Washington. Teigen’s mother is from Thailand and her American father is of Norwegian ancestry. Teigen didn’t dream of becoming a model. As she told The Daily Beast, “I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself really ever.” Despite her personal doubts, she was discovered around the age of 18 while working at a surf shop in California. Teigen had a career breakthrough in 2010 when she was featured as “Rookie of the Year” in Sports Illustrated’s famous swimsuit issue. She landed on the cover again in 2014 alongside models Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge, and also graced the pages of such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Italian Vogue. Branching out in another direction in 2011, Teigen started her own blog, So Delushious, to share her recipes and opinions."I always loved food and I think I kind of needed an outlet," she told Marie Claire. "I didn't want to just talk about modeling all the time and just be in the modeling realm." Building on that theme, Teigen authored the best-selling Cravings: Recipes for All of the Food You Want to Eat in 2016. Two years later, she published Cravings: Hungry for More and launched the Cravings cookware line through Target. Teigen also emerged as a Faculty Biography Chrissy Lau is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in the fields of History, Asian American Studies, and Feminist Studies. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American History, U.S. Women’s History, California History, and Public History. Her first book manuscript, New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America (University of Washington Press, 2022), tells the stories of college-aged Japanese American youth that became leaders of their communities and rebuilt gender relations, community welfare and trans-Pacific ties during an era of immigration exclusion and racial segregation. During COVID-19, she joined the Auntie Sewing Squad, a mutual aid collective that made and sent homemade masks to vulnerable BIPOC communities. She co-edited a collection, The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021), that archives and theorizes the labor and care of sewing and the political genealogies of the Aunties who participated in the Squad. She also built a digital archive, the Auntie Sewing Squad Oral History Archive, where students conducted oral histories with the Aunties about their histories of sewing and activism. Asian American History, U.S. Women’s History, California History, and Public History. “Coalitional Organizing: The Origins of the Asian American Protestant Movement of the 1960s/70s” in Daniel Lee ed., The Theologies of Asian Americans and Pacific Peoples: A Reader, Claremont Press, 2023. New Women of Empire: Gendered Politic American actress (born 1980) Chrissy Metz Metz in 2017 Christine Michelle Metz Homestead, Florida, U.S. Martyn Eaden Christine Michelle Metz (born September 29, 1980) is an American actress and singer. She played Kate Pearson in the television series This Is Us (2016–2022), which earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She has also appeared in films such as Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018) and Breakthrough (2019). Metz was born in Homestead, Florida, to Denise and Mark Metz on September 29, 1980. She spent her early years in Japan, where her father was stationed by the US Navy. The family later moved to Gainesville, Florida, where she attended elementary, middle, and high school. She grew up with her mother, stepfather, two siblings and two half-siblings. Metz has said that her first job was at a McDonald's restaurant in Gainesville. She played Kate Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us, which earned her Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. She played Ima Wiggles in FX's American Horror Story: Freak Show. Metz is a singer in her band Chrissy and the Vapors. In early 2018, it was announced that Metz would star in Breakthrough, working with producer DeVon Franklin. She is cast as Joyce Smith, the mother of John, a 14-year-old boy who fell through an icy Missouri lake and was proclaimed dead. The movie, based on the book written by Smith, explores the mother's belief that her son was brought back to life by God interceding through her and other's prayers. In 2 Chrissy Teigen
Who Is Chrissy Teigen?
Early Life and Modeling Career
'Cravings' and Social Media Star
About Chrissy Lau
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(1980-09-29) September 29, 1980 (age 44)Occupation(s) Actress, singer Years active 2005–present Spouse Early life
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