What's Chrissy Teigen's pregnancy beauty secret?
On Wednesday night, The Hollywood Reporter threw a bash honoring celebs and those who make them shine: star hair stylists and makeup artists. We bumped into Khloe Kardashian and Chrissy Teigen, who were celebrating their hair stylist, Jen Atkin.
We couldn't help but ask Chrissy, social media delight that she is, about her latest beauty trick. The pregnant model (and future cookbook author) had no qualms about sharing her new routine as her belly grows.
"I am very blessed to have a relationship with La Mer," she said. "I'm crazy-neurotic about stretch marks (while) being pregnant. I get stretch marks (anyway). I’m a stretch-mark prone girl. So I’ve been really layering on this reparative serum they sent me. You (normally) just put a drop on your face, but they sent me so many beautiful bottles and I slather it on my belly."
It’s good to be Chrissy Teigen.
"It’s a very unattainable, un-relatable secret," she laughs (an ounce runs $340). "I take out 20 minutes of my day in the morning and then another 20 minutes at night just to rub it on my belly."
And her low budget wonder?
"I still use Aquaphor on absolutely everything, lips, nose, elbows, inner thighs," she said.
Teigen's first-ever cookbook, Cravings: 100 Recipes for What You Want to Eat Right Now, written with food writer and recipe developer Adeena Sussman and Top Chef Masters judge Francis Lam, is due in February. "It was supposed to be April, but I can't travel in April," she told us.
Mid-way through the THR dinner, held at Hollywood's London Hotel, hubby John Legend surprised Chrissy by stopping by (that's when Khloe, seated next to her, began cheering). Remember when he whipped up a jalapeño-topped tuna casserole for his sick wife? Turns out that wasn't for morning sickness. "I've been battling this cold and sinus infection," she said. "Everyone assumes every sickness now is morning sickness, but no. I just wanted one of those winter, cozy foods."
So is John Legend a good cook? "He is a really good cook. And he's cooking straight from my book, so I can trust him now," she grinned.