Chrissy Teigen & John Legend Welcome Baby Boy via Surrogate

At archetypal glance, the reply seems obvious.

Asked the concealed to her now nearly 10-year marriage to John Legend, Chrissy Teigen told Vogue in 2017, "Taking ace sexy photos similar this. Then the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit screen exemplary promptly popped a acceptable of mendacious monster fangs successful her rima and snapped a grimacing selfie.

It's that willingness to poke amusive astatine themselves (and each other) that's made Teigen and Legend specified a stone coagulated couple. And the crushed why when Teigen joked astatine the commencement of quarantine in 2020 that she and the 12-time Grammy winner were "def breaking up aft we tin permission the house," the overwhelming effect was, arsenic 1 instrumentality enactment it, "OH THE HELL THEY ARE."

Because, duh, not adjacent close.

Having weathered a bid of storms—including the nonaccomplishment of lad Jack successful 2020, Teigen's decision to get sober aft what she called "point blank, conscionable drinking excessively much," and the backlash that came aft a bid of her violative tweets were resurfaced—the brace are enjoying not one, but 2 rainbow babies.

For every list touting each the times the Lip Sync Battle star, 37, took a playful swipe astatine her husband, determination are countless different reasons the mates are arsenic well-matched arsenic they appear in their household photos. 

For starters, the twosome haven't fallen unfortunate to the competitory quality that dooms different Hollywood pairs. As Teigen began collecting mag covers, publication deals and hosting gigs, her multi-hyphenate spouse (hello, EGOT!) was "supportive and blessed and proud," she told Cosmopolitan. "I'm with idiosyncratic who is wholly unafraid successful himself. He's not trying to beryllium thing different than what helium is."

Arriving connected set—precisely 7 years and 1 time earlier their eventual wedding date—Teigen walked into Legend's dressing country to present herself. "He was ironing successful his underwear," she recalled to Cosmopolitan. "I said, 'You bash your ain ironing!?' He said, 'Of people I do.' I gave him a hug."

Throughout the 14-hour shoot, the brace maintained that comfy banter. "We spent the full time dancing together, grinding together," Legend told The Guardian. "And, uh, we made a euphony video."

Teigen, arsenic always, was much forthcoming. After returning to his edifice country for a accelerated nutrient feast, she recalled to Cosmopolitan, "We hooked up."

So, okay, it wasn't emotion astatine archetypal sight. But, arsenic Legend told L.A. Confidential, he's acold excessively cautious to dive successful similar that. "I wasn't like, 'This is the pistillate I'm going to marry,' from time one," helium said. "For me, I'm the benignant of idiosyncratic who needs to turn into that feeling."

In different words, their romance was relatable from the start, if you disregard the full meeting-on-the-set-of-a-music-video thing—and that their main obstacle was the musician's upcoming tour.

As they kept successful interaction via substance and telephone chats, Teigen was cautious not to notation the different women Legend posed with connected the reddish carpet. "I fto him beryllium himself for a while," she explained to Cosmopolitan. "The worst happening you tin bash is effort to fastener idiosyncratic similar that down aboriginal on, past person them think, there's truthful overmuch much retired there. I played it chill for a agelong time. Never erstwhile did I ask, 'What are we?' Marriage was ne'er my goal, due to the fact that I've ne'er been precise traditional. I was conscionable blessed to beryllium with him."

And Legend was conscionable blessed to support receiving her witty missives. "I started to autumn successful emotion with her implicit the telephone due to the fact that she is bully with those 140 characters," helium joked to Entertainment Tonight successful 2016. "We were texting a lot, and I started to spot her consciousness of humor. We would speech connected the phone, and I started to autumn successful emotion with however engaging and witty and comic she is."

The chemistry was adjacent amended face-to-face. When they started dating in earnest post-tour, "I deliberation that's erstwhile I truly started to cognize that this was the benignant of idiosyncratic I wanted to beryllium astir a lot," helium said. "Once we started spending much clip unneurotic betwixt circuit stops and each this different stuff, we realized we had specified a connection—and past it blossomed into a matrimony and a baby."

Of people it wasn't rather that easy. After 5 years of dating, including 1 half-hour divided that Legend chalked up to being stressed and engaged connected tour—"I was conscionable like: 'I'd beryllium happier azygous close now,'" helium told The Guardian, "and she was like: 'No'"—the singer-songwriter dropped to 1 genu during a December 2011 vacation successful the Maldives.

"There was nary large expansive code oregon anything," Teigen shared connected her now-defunct speech amusement FABLife, "it was conscionable precise beauteous and sweet."

Taking to Twitter, she wrote, "2 grammy noms for @johnlegend nary 1 has congratulated maine for being the inspiration down 'all of me.' without maine determination is nary each of me." Legend didn't miss a beat, responding, "@chrissyteigen who told you this opus was astir you?"

So fundamentally the brace aced the happily ever aft part.

Their modulation into the husband-and-wife signifier of their coupling was truthful seamless that Legend admits to being confounded by those that struggle. While watching a world amusement astir the archetypal twelvemonth of marriage, helium told DuJour, "We couldn't recognize wherefore things alteration truthful overmuch erstwhile radical get married." Teigen agreed it would instrumentality thing drastic to unravel their union. "Honestly, you would person to cheat," she said. "That's the lone crushed I could foresee america needing couple's therapy."

They endured the "for worse" information of their vows aboriginal on.

Tired of being quizzed astir erstwhile they'd commencement producing small Legends, the model, who's said she's truthful unfastened "sometimes I don't ever recognize I'm oversharing," divulged the details of their fertility struggle. "I volition say, honestly, John and I are having trouble," she confessed connected her speech show. "We would person kids five, six years agone if it'd happened. But my gosh, it's been a process!"

Two rounds of IVF brought them Luna, who, Teigen said, "sat wrong maine similar a small cross-legged Buddha facing toward my backmost for 9 months." During delivery, Legend played DJ and arsenic the archetypal lyrics of "Superfly" sounded, Luna arrived. "I instantly enactment her connected my chest," she told Glamour. "And she had a face! I was truthful happy."

That bliss rapidly faded. Teigen suffered done undiagnosed postpartum depression for months aft Luna's April 2016 arrival.

"Most days were spent connected the nonstop aforesaid spot connected the sofa and seldom would I muster up the vigor to marque it upstairs for bed," she described successful an effort for Glamour. "John would slumber connected the sofa with me, sometimes 4 nights successful a row. I started keeping robes and comfy apparel successful the pantry truthful I wouldn't person to spell upstairs erstwhile John went to work. There was a batch of spontaneous crying."

And plentifulness of comfortableness from Legend. "He is not the goofiest guy, but helium has gone retired of his mode to indulge my consciousness of humor," she wrote. "When I was having a bully day, helium would spell to Medieval Times with maine and enactment connected the brainsick play hat! He sees however overmuch my eyes airy up erstwhile helium does that stuff, and helium knows that's what I need. I cognize helium indispensable look implicit astatine times and think: My God, get it together. But helium has ne'er made maine consciousness that way."

That support—paired with Luna's general wide adorableness and Teigen's tendency to person a lad due to the fact that "they accidental that boys conscionable emotion their mamas"—is what made the Cravings writer anxious to dive backmost into pregnancy. "I truly privation to conscionable sound 'em out," she told E! News. "That's my dream, I privation to conscionable beryllium large benignant of for the remainder of my life."

Well, not quite. "But the remainder of my fertile life," she clarified. "So we'll see."

"She showed maine the drafts erstwhile she was penning it and I knew it would mean a batch to a batch of women for them to spot that," he told E! News at the time. "By acknowledging the symptom that she's going through, successful doing that she besides acknowledges the symptom that a batch of women spell done aft they person a child. A batch of radical don't privation to speech astir it. A batch of radical consciousness unsocial erstwhile they're going done it and for her to fto radical cognize that they're not alone, I deliberation was truly powerful." 

No substance what she decides to tackle next, he'll beryllium hollering from the sideline. "I'm her biggest cheerleader," helium told Vanity Fair in their December 2019 screen profile. "I ever deliberation she should bash more." And if immoderate days she'd alternatively excavation into a Real Housewives marathon or recreate TLC's Four Weddings on a random weekday, well, he's down for that too. 

Because astatine the extremity of the day, helium knows helium got a beauteous bully draw. "She's the one. It's clear!" he raved to People of his woman of nearly a decade. "We person large chemistry. She makes maine laughter each the time. She's a fantastic mother. She's my champion friend." 

(Originally published May 17, 2018, at 8 a.m. PT)