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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She’s lost a bunch of weight, looks great, and has not said anything about it!

(I was always amazed at the sheer amount of food she’d make and eat —because she’d post it— and now I realize she hasn’t been doing that lately. So no big secrets). [/quote]

She absolutely still posts food videos. She has a thing on stuffed olives on Instagram that is recent.

Anyway, the thing about Teigan is that she is a professional famous person. The whole debate over her bullying was weird because it made me realize that there is this big group of Teigen fans who think her schtick for the last few years since she had a baby was genuine. It's not. Like a lot of celebs, she had a baby and parlayed that into some mom-adjacent business opportunities. It was a calculated career move, it's not her real self.

Prior to 2016, Teigan was a model and was trying to break into acting (she had a few small roles on TV) but she's not really an actor, more of a "personality". She was also looking for hosting gigs, which suited her skill set better. Her public persona was "snarky hot girl" and the stuff that is now correctly seen as bullying was part of that -- she had a very caustic Twitter personality but it suited the era (Perez Hilton, Gawker, etc.) and appealed to her target demo, which was young people (18-30ish, unmarried, no kids). Even after she married Legend in 2011, that was where she was at career wise.

But she was into food and did a stint on a Tyra Banks show where she got to do some food segments and found a niche. In 2016 she had Luna and wrote/sold her first cookbook. Between the pregnancy and the new baby, she was able to capitalize on her family status to appeal to the target market for the book (MC and UMC women, late 20s to early 40s, married and with kids or planning on it). She toned down her snarky online persona a bit, and channeled the snark against people her new target demo would approve of, mostly Trump and other conservatives. This was GREAT for her brand. Her new older, much more female, demo loved the idea of Chrissy as their famous person avatar -- baiting Trump on Twitter, making tasting treats in her massive kitchen with her cute baby and cute husband and cute mother, making self-deprecating jokes about struggling to lose weight after pregnancy, and occasionally going into confessional/advocacy mode to talk about a topic they felt close to, like postpartum depression or infertility. It was a perfect career pivot for a professional "hot girl" who was aging out of modeling, and enabled her to make a lot more money because she could more easily brand herself. This led to the cookware line and sponsorship opportunities, all pretty easy money.

The bullying scandal has been fascinating because it wasn't anything new -- these were public tweets, not newly unearthed texts and emails. But it was basically her new public persona conflicting with her old public persona. Her new fans didn't like to think of themselves as the kind of people who would have bullied Courtney Stodden back in 2011 (even though many of them probably were, because stuff like that was much more public acceptable). Her 2008-2014ish behavior was being judged through 2021's hyper-woke, post Trump, anti-bullying eyes and it looked bad because it was bad.

Her next phase was "messy mom" which was thankfully short-lived and almost certainly reflected real stuff going on in her life -- I absolutely believe that she'd been drinking too much, and I can't imagine how horrible going through that stillbirth was. But she also has a killer PR team and good PR instincts so of course this stuff also got exploited for clicks -- make of that what you will. I tend to view it cynically and think it's a little gross.

When the bullying didn't blow over and she lost some of her branding deals, she had to regroup. She went quiet, got a trainer and a nutritionist, and now she's back as Hot Unattainable Model with the cute kids and hot talented husband. Her social media got an overhaul -- it's all perfect and carefully styled now, no more "being real". I think she used to do a lot of her own social media but that's clearly over. It will be interesting to see if this finally unites the horny young guys who drooled over Teigan 1.0 and the celeb-obsessed moms who related to Teigan 2.0. Worth a shot! I'm betting it will work out because the public has a short memory and Teigan is pretty, funny, rich, and connected. Odds are she bounces back.

But you guys... it's not real. Any of it. Arguing about whether she's a good person or a bad person? It's pointless. What she's selling is a persona, not a person. Chrissy Teigan could be a saint (probably not) or she could be a toxic asshole who would treat you like garbage (also probably not, though likely closer to the truth based my firsthand experience of how a lot of people like this are in private) and it wouldn't matter either way. You are buying a brand, not making a friend. She does, indeed, "love attention" because that's the business she's in and she's very good at it.[/quote]

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