Her journey to motherhood is a topic she’s been more private about, though. Teigen and Legend wanted to have a child but struggled to conceive. “The big question was why this wasn’t working for us when I was young and he was healthy,” Teigen says. “I thought, People get pregnant by accident all the time! How does this happen?” The couple decided to try in vitro fertilization, and in preparation, Teigen began a rigorous regimen of shots, doctor visits and pills, which could sometimes take a toll. “Emotionally, it could be really hard,” she says. “When you have these high-highs and low-lows, and you’re, like, cuckoo pants.”
To stay positive and relaxed, Teigen tried acupuncture and tapped into her spiritual side: She wore an amulet necklace blessed in a temple in Korat, Thailand, that her sister gave her. “If anything, it just makes you feel better,” she says of keeping mementos and reminders of her family around her. But success didn’t happen right away—the couple had to try IVF a few times. “You don’t want to get your hopes up, but of course, you do,” Teigen says. At the peak of the process, when she was bruised all over her stomach and above her normal weight, the paparazzi snapped photos of her on the beach during a shoot for a magazine. “I looked horrible, totally not myself,” she says. “Then to not be able to say what it was, it sucked.”
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