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Chrissy Teigen Says She Had Abortion To "Save My Life For A Baby That Had Absolutely No Chance"

Chrissy Teigen says she lost her son Jack to abortion, not a miscarriage.


The Lip Synch Battle host  — who has Luna, six, and Miles, four, and is expecting another baby with husband John Legend — tragically lost a little boy halfway through her pregnancy in October 2020.

Speaking at social impact agency Propper Daley's 'A Day of Unreasonable Conversation' summit (via The  Hollywood Reporter), the former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover star explained how shocked she was to realise it was an abortion she had, not a miscarriage to save her life. 

“Two years ago when I was pregnant with Jack, John and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decision," she said. "It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention.”


She continued: “Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion.


“An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago.”


It was only after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which previously protected women's rights to an abortion, in June this year that her 'All of Me' hitmaker husband helped her realise she hadn't had a miscarriage.


She said: “I fell silent, feeling weird that I hadn’t made sense of it that way.


“I told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage. And I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion.”

Last month, Teigen announced that she and Legend are expecting another baby.— BANG SHOWBIZ

Photo: TPG News/Click Photos

Source: TODAY
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