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The Grief ’Gram

hrissy Teigen is both a model and a cooking show host and is also the wife of musician John Legend, but none of these titles explains her immense popularity. That comes down to what people dub her ‘relatability’: how unfiltered, blunt, and funny she is; how she’ll share warts and all with her millions of followers. But on 1 October 2020, Teigen shared a post vastly different to her usual content, which consists for the most part of cooking and candid photos of her family. This time, the 34-year-old was sobbing on a hospital bed, her head down and immeasurable pain etched all over her face. The black-and-white images show the moments after she lost her third child, a boy she and Legend had named Jack. Due to placental complications, doctors had to induce labour at 20 weeks and Teigen and Legend, who entered the hospital pregnant, left out the same doors without their baby. “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to

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