'It's paid off nicely': Chrissy Teigen hits back at swimsuit photo shamers
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Chrissy Teigen is putting trolls in their rightful place after being body shamed online.
On Sunday, the model and best-selling cookbook author took to Twitter to share a video of herself wearing a one-piece swimsuit with plunging neckline.
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In the video, the 34-year-old mother of two records herself in her bathroom mirror, jokingly telling her fans, “I never post thirst traps, so here I am trapping you in thirst, with thirst.”
Teigen posted the video with for her more than 12.6 million Twitter followers with the caption “Don’t get too trapped.”
Almost immediately, online trolls crawled out from the depths of the internet and made their way to their keyboards to criticize Teigen’s body.
“Shaped like Sponge Bob,” former professional boxer Eric Kelly wrote Teigen, setting off a firestorm of comments.
don’t get too trapped pic.twitter.com/bLp3dlHzIg
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 26, 2020
“John Legend has got to be cheating,” another wrote.
When a fan named Sophia wrote the former Sports Illustrated model to remind her that she’s “beautiful inside and out,” Teigen replied, “It’s OK I’ve been a rectangle my whole life and it’s gotten me pretty far!”
So, @chrissyteigen posted a quick vid of herself in a body suite & the world went on attack. Men & women both throwing insults. I only WISH I could look like her! When did all these asshats become walking perfect Ken and Barbies? #douchebags
— Julie (@JulieH1015) April 26, 2020
“Everyone used to....surgically enhanced curves. I’ve been a square my whole life and let me tell you, it’s paid off nicely in many ways!” Teigen said in a separate tweet. “Imagine if one day I showed up with hips and an ass. Ooooo you guys would be pissed then too! I’m happy, John’s happy, we all happy and doing A-OK!”
Body positive activist and “The Good Place” star Jameela Jamil offered Teigen some support.
“I loved the video,” Jamil wrote. “Didn’t see a shape. Just saw fire.”
Luckily, the reigning queen of Twitter seemed to take everything in stride.
“Thank you,” she replied to Jamil with a frowning face. “I’ve gotten used to my right angle bod, you’d think people have seen it enough that it doesn’t shock them anymore but nope.”
The “Cravings” cookbook author has been candid with her followers about her postpartum journey towards accepting her body after having daughter Luna, 4, and one-year-old son Miles.
“‘How do you eat like this?’” Teigen tweeted in 2019. “Basically I am 20 pounds heavier than I was before miles. he's 10 months old, I never lost the last bit because I just love food too much. Just coming to terms with my new normal, when I had this certain number for so long!”
Teigen followed up her honest tweet by revealing the thinnest she had ever been was after giving birth to Luna, when she experienced postpartum depression.
“I’ll take these pounds and these feelings,” she wrote.
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