Chrissy Teigen is leaving cigarette smoking in the past.
“I’m just furiously chewing nicotine gum tonight,” Teigen, 39, admitted while speaking to Access Hollywood at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, March 2. “Don’t smoke, smoking is bad, stop now if you can.”
Teigen further explained that she’s been an “on and off smoker for too long” and is finally trying to kick the habit.
“I have stopped for the last time. I’m very proud of myself,” the model continued. “But I’m also extremely on edge.”
Teigen and husband John Legend joked during the same interview that they were thrilled to get a date night away from their kids. (Teigen and Legend share Luna, 8, Miles, 6, Esti, 2, and Wren, 20 months.)
“We’re OK, we’re all good,” Teigen joked when asked about leaving the kids at home.
Teigen’s outing with Legend, 46, came days after she broke down during the first episode of her “Self-Conscious With Chrissy Teigen” podcast about passing certain traits down to their children.
Author Mel Robbins, who was Teigen’s guest on Thursday, February 27, explained that the model is “never responsible for managing someone else’s emotions.” Teigen followed up with a recent “epiphany” she had.
“I’m not alone in this,” she said. “Sometimes it feels very isolating to feel this way, and the fact that other people feel imprisoned by this too, that helps a lot, because one of the worst parts about it is me feeling crazy or feeling that nobody else will understand this feeling. ‘Why am I like this?’ I’m really scared of passing this along to my kids.”
Chrissy Teigen is reminding herself that she’s done expanding her family. “Christmas is so beautiful with my 4 babies but please screenshot this and send to me if I ever say I want a 5th,” Teigen, 38, wrote via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, December 26. She concluded her Story with a more direct message: […]
She added, “I think that is the big realization for me, is, I can’t do this to my kids. I don’t ever want them to feel like they have to perform for everybody and be good all the time, but I know that sometimes I probably am that way.”
Teigen explained that she never wants people to look at her and Legend’s children as “celebrity a—–e kids” and raises them to be “the most polite.”
“I might go harder in the other direction to make sure that they don’t come off that way,” she admitted. “And I really need to break that because I’m OK — another reason I’m in therapy — I’m OK with me getting the s— end of the stick on anything or living this life where I’m stressed and in pain, but I’m not OK with them [getting it].”
