Chrissy Teigen and John Legend announced late Wednesday night that they had lost their third child due to pregnancy complications.
What We Know:
- The couple shared the news on Wednesday revealing that her bleeding, which led to her hospitalization, couldn’t be stopped, “despite bags and bags of blood transfusions”. In her lengthy and emotional Instagram post, Teigen wrote, “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough.” She also revealed the baby’s name, Jack, dedicating a portion of the post to him. “To our Jack – I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you.”
- Legend later reshared Teigen’s statement on his own Twitter account, writing “We love you, Jack 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤.” Following her Instagram post, Teigen tweeted, “Driving home from the hospital with no baby. How can this be real.”
- In August, Teigen and Legend announced they were expecting their third child as part of Legend’s new music video “Wild”. They called the pregnancy a “miracle” because the couple ″never thought it would be possible for Chrissy to get pregnant naturally”. Teigen had previously undergone in vitro fertilization to conceive their other two children, Luna, 4, and Miles, 2, so the family was shocked to learn about her pregnancy.
- In September, Teigen was put on bed rest and eventually hospitalized due to excessive bleeding from her placenta. She recounted one ″scary morning″ on September 29 after receiving blood transfusions when she experienced a ″huge blood clot″. Teigen shared an ultrasound of the baby last week and applauded him for ″working so hard,″ writing at the time: ″Hi my sweet strong boy. You are working so hard, I promise it’ll be worth it!!!”
- In a series of Instagram posts, Teigen opened up about the pregnancy complications that led to her bed rest, saying her placenta is ″super weak,″ causing her to bleed, which she said was ″high-risk″. At the time she said, ″It’s always been kind of the bad part of my pregnancies with Luna. With Miles, it just stopped feeding him. It stopped taking care of him.”
- Legend had previously shared to PEOPLE that his priority as a husband is being a ″rock″ for Teigen. ″Being a good husband is about communicating and listening to what your partner needs and wants,″ he said in November 2019. Legend also shared that becoming parents strengthened the couple’s bond. ″[Parenthood] deepens your love for your partner because you see them in a different light going through, in our case, the trouble of actually having a kid,” he said.
Teigen concluded her emotional post writing, “On this darkest of days, we will grieve, we will cry our eyes out. But we will hug and love each other harder and get through it.” We send our condolences to Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, and their whole family.
