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Model Chrissy Teigen With Husband John Legend: 'An Abortion To Save My Life'
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Two years after the loss of her unborn baby, US model Chrissy Teigen has revealed it wasn't a miscarriage.
"Let's just call it what it was: It was an abortion," Teigen said Thursday at a conference in the United States, according to US media reports.
"An abortion to save my life instead of that of a baby who had absolutely no chance."
Teigen is married to musician John Legend.
The couple made it public in October 2020 that they had lost their third child, a boy, when Teigen was 20 weeks pregnant.
»We are shocked and feel pain that one otherwise only knows from hearing.
The kind of pain we've never felt before," Teigen wrote on Instagram at the time.
Now Teigen said: Halfway through the pregnancy it was clear that the child would not survive.
That's why she had to "make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions" to protect her own life.
»Even I wouldn't have made it without a medical intervention.«
Her husband made it clear to her that she too had had an abortion
"I told the world we miscarried, the world agreed we miscarried, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage," Teigen explained.
It took more than a year to understand that it was actually an abortion.
She came to this conclusion after the US Supreme Court overturned liberal abortion laws in the United States with a landmark ruling in June.
With its decision, the mostly conservative court paved the way for stricter laws on abortions.
Since then, several states have largely banned abortions.
Recently, for example, the case of a woman who drove more than 2,000 kilometers to abort a non-viable fetus became known.
Following the verdict, Teigen said she expressed to her husband her sympathy for people who are having abortions.
Then her husband made it clear to her that she was one of those people, said Teigen.
The 11-time Grammy winner Legend and the model have been married since 2013.
The couple have two children: six-year-old daughter Luna and four-year-old son Miles.
The couple is currently expecting another child.
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