Before we get to Chrissy Teigen’s reaction to the headlines about her son Miles‘ eating habits, we must first recap, and figure out just how we got here!
In a previous interview, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Teigen tells the night time host that her two eldest children couldn’t be more different when it comes to their eating habits.
“Luna is the best eater. Luna is amazing, she eats salads, vegetables. Miles has still not had a vegetable. He is six, almost,” Tiegen said, emphasizing in her interview the fact that Miles has “never” eaten a vegetable. “He accidentally ate a broccoli floret in a fried rice and was so upset about it.”
Tiegen added that her son’s school offered a bit of insight into her son’s unusual eating habit saying that, “… that it’s the only thing they really have control over at that age so he uses it.”
Well, fast-forward, and as expected, after her interview with Kimmel, every media outlet ran major headlines saying that Miles “had never had a vegetable,” and a lot of people had a lot to say about it.
“I saw People magazine had posted it and the headline was just ‘Chrissy Teigen’s son has never had a vegetable’ and then I saw there were 700 comments under it and I was like, ‘I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to do this to myself. Put it down,’” she told Deadline while on a press tour to promote her new Freeform show Chrissy & Dave Dine Out at the Sundance Film Festival.
“Everyone thinks they have an answer for everything, but there’s just so much nuance to this situation,” she added while addressing the media storm. “It’s a struggle with him, but it’s also not such a struggle because he really is such a good kid.”
The 38-year-old went on further echo what the insight given by the school saying that her son doesn’t really enjoy change, and this characteristic is typical of many kids.
“Obviously there are lots of details, it’s not just that he hasn’t eaten a vegetable. Anyone who has kids knows that that’s their only way of really having power,” Teigen said. “I was just saying in the car on the way here, it’s not just vegetables. I can be begging him to try a root beer float and he will not try it. He doesn’t do new things very well. He’s very hard-headed, stuck in his ways with food. It’s chicken tendies every night, pizza, and spaghetti, but we’re talking candy, it’s everything!”
Teigen shares four children with EGOT-winner John Legend. Legend and Teigen’s children include: Luna, 7, Esti, 12 months, Miles, 5, and Wren, 7 months.
Photo: Chrissy Teigen Instagram
