Shamers of all sorts can't seem to leave Chrissy Teigen alone, but whether someone's criticizing her for taking her daughter to the dentist or rudely asking if she's pregnant, she responds—and responds powerfully. That was the case yet again this week when a Twitter user posted a pic and caption that seemed to be making fun of Teigen's backside.
The saga began when Twitter user @OfficiallyIce shared a paparazzi photo taken while Teigen and her husband, John Legend, were on vacation. Teigen's standing up in a hot tub and holding their son, Miles, while Legend's sitting behind them. Legend appears to have an unhappy facial expression, and the Twitter user assumed it was because he appears to be looking Teigen's body in her swimsuit. "I'm crying," the user captioned the picture.
Teigen didn't hold back when she responded within hours of the post. "Everyone so used to ass shots and photoshopped instagrams. I've had no ass forever—is this new news to some of you?" she wrote back on Twitter.
She followed up with another tweet minutes later, where she called out a double standard in comments like the Twitter user's. If she were to surgically alter her butt, she said, people would still find something to make fun of. "Bored as hell, never can win!" she wrote.
The Twitter user responded, saying he had been laughing at Legend's face in the first tweet, not Teigen's body. Teigen called him out again—this time, pointing out that the joke in the original tweet came from assumptions that Legend was looking at Teigen's butt.
"His grossed out face looking at my ass. You don't need to explain this to me," Teigen said. "I get it. I know the meme and I see the 100s of comments under it about my body and his reaction to it. You were clowning on me or his look at me. That's all."
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The so-called joke was uncalled for, but Teigen tweeted that she wasn't going to let it get her down. In fact, she actually follows the account that came up with the meme. "I can say what I want just like he can," she added.
Teigen's spoken her mind about everything from politics to stretch marks in the past few years. In that time, she's changed her strategy for dealing with the internet's peanut gallery. "I've noticed that I'm really sensitive if I read Twitter first thing in the morning, so I let myself breathe for a little bit," she told Glamour. "Then the same comment won't affect me the same way in the afternoon. You just stop becoming sensitive to it all really."
I'd hope that body-shamers and mommy-shamers alike would learn to mind their own business. But until people stop coming for Chrissy Teigen, she'll (rightfully) hit back.
