Chrissy Teigen reveals she had plastic surgery early in her career

Chrissy Teigen has developed a devoted following of fans thanks to her refreshingly honest approach to all topics taboo, from mental health to motherhood, beauty standards to politics. In Teigen’s new interview with Glamour UK, the multi-talented Teigen once again drops some major moments of honesty and admits for the first time that she went under the knife early in her career.“Yeah, I did my boobs when I was about 20 years old,” revealed Teigen in the Spring 2020 issue. “It was more for a swimsuit thing. I thought, if I’m going to be posing, laid on my back, I want them to be perky! But then you have babies and they fill up with milk and deflate and now I am screwed.”

 

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Teigen said that the surgery wasn’t to increase her bust, but to change the shape of her breasts. “Honestly, I kept them the same cup size. I just filled them out, so they are rounder and firmer. I had a quarter ‘teardrop’ cup in the bottom and filled out the breast line.”[video_embed id='1705761']RELATED: John Legend says meeting Chrissy Teigen wasn't love at first sight[/video_embed]The former Sports Illustrated model and mom of two says she now would like to get her implants removed but is scared of possible complications that can come from surgery. “If I could do one thing, it would be to have a lift. I think you’re supposed to replace [implants] every ten years. But when you have kids you think about [the risks] of surgery and I think, ‘This is not the way I want to die, in boob surgery.’”Highly aware of her impact on social media, the Twitter queen joked about her new revelation. “People are going to be excited about my boobs, I can tell already,” joked Teigen. “There’s been a lot of speculation for years!”The model, cookbook author and TV host says she is constantly trying to find a balance between feeling comfortable at any weight or size and having fun with beauty. Teigen has decided to speak publicly about her breast surgery to help dispel the notion of perfection that has become the beauty standard in North America. “You can’t set these expectations for people that everything is perfect. Everyone filters their sh*t, edits or Facetunes so you forget what normal faces or bodies look like. It’s not fair and it makes you jealous of other people’s bodies. It’s lying to people by omission. But also, while you want to teach your kids to be comfortable in their own skin, you want to tell them everything you can and let them decide.”

 

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Teigen, who has spoken publicly the realities of becoming a new mom and suffering from Postpartum Depression, credits her children Luna, 3, and Miles, 1, with helping shift her focus away from her weight. “I used to weigh myself every morning, afternoon and night. I knew what the scales would say after each meal. I did that for eight years and had this one weight I wanted to be at. That changed with Luna, and really changed with Miles, where it took me a year to be comfortable with my new normal number.”Focusing more on her cookbooks and TV hosting gigs, Teigen said the pressure of no longer modeling has also helped her body image. Discovered at 18, Teigen said that her days as a model included weigh-ins at agencies and being fired from jobs when the client decided her measurements weren’t right.“I do look at [my body] in the shower and think, ‘Arghhh, these kids’. But I don’t take the aesthetics so seriously now. It’s very fulfilling not having that pressure of putting on a swimsuit and looking good for a magazine while running around a beach, which I did when I was modelling,” said Teigen. I don’t feel like my body is where I’m going to be sh*tty to myself, either. I’m already thinking enough things I am mad at myself about, I can’t add my body into it.”

 

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