Chrissy Teigen Quotes

My favorite fall meal has to be a simple roasted chicken. Ina Garten does a fabulous one. There is just something about roasting your own chicken and vegetables that screams ‘fall’ and ‘home’ to me.

I regret things all the time. I’ve never regretted not saying something. I’ve only regretted saying something.

I know how I like my food. I like it spicy, salty, sticky, crunchy, juicy, oozy – basically any dish you know and love, jacked up to a bordering-on-socially-unacceptable amount of flavor.

It’s funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon ‘Real Housewives’ white, but mine have stopped taking to teeth whitening. When I talk to my dentist, I’m like, ‘They can be that white,’ and he’s like, ‘Veneers can be that white.’

I always get so excited when I get to go to my friends at corporate offices. I am always, like, looking around. I think that’s really exciting to be a part of an actual corporate office.

I’ve always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.

I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I’m very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I’m scared of serving, even though they might be great.

I’ve noticed that maybe my skin isn’t as soft as it used to be when I was a younger. It’s just not there anymore. I travel so much, and my skin gets so dry.

I don’t like trainers, because we distract each other. We talk too much, and I get too friendly. I prefer classes instead. I love Physique 57.

I lick the cheese off Doritos and put them back in the bag. I will eat pretty much anything as long as it’s salty. Or sweet. Or spicy.

If I have a big shoot coming up, I do low-carb, no red meat, and earlier dinners. And I just tell myself that sure, maybe I cannot eat all the things I’d love to today. But there are many more days in the week, and that perfect bite will come when I’m done with whatever shoot.

Seaweed sheets are my go-to for my salty chip cravings, especially wasabi flavored ones.

My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we’ll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we’ll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.

Every White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the past three years, I have broken my dress and can’t even zip it, so we have to leave – that’s why I’ve missed every carpet appearance. One time, we had to go into Virginia to find me a new dress.

Just being a model, you’re not supposed to speak ever, really.

When I wake up, I’m like, ‘I gotta go to Whole Foods.’ I’m constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.

It’s kind of crazy what I can do and what I can’t do. It’s simple things like rice and quinoa or salads, honestly, that I’m not great at. But I can make an osso buco that takes six hours.

I am a nutritionist’s nightmare.

So many models have cool boyfriends.

I feel like part of me will die when John Goodman dies.

I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom’s taste a bit more.

There is something very beautiful about being pregnant. I think I enjoy being pregnant more than not being pregnant. I know it could go either way, and the next pregnancy could be the complete opposite.

Oh, I sat by Grumpy Cat once. You know that cat everyone is obsessed with? That’s pretty random. She’s not allowed to be touched. Are you kidding? You can’t put a cat next to me and expect me not to touch it.

My mom really let us do our own thing and play with different trends, and my sister was a little older, so she had all the beauty tricks. I would stuff things like rolled-up toilet paper into my hair to get volume, or do the reverse, and I’d lie on my back, and she’d use an actual iron to straighten it.

‘Sports Illustrated’ does extremely minimal retouching. Other publications, however… phew. They do a lot; I’ve watched myself be Photoshopped before. It. Is. The. Worst.

I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don’t do that as much.

I’m very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.

Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter… everyone thinks that I could definitely pull back. You kind of open yourself up to all the criticism. That’s definitely a big downside to this whole world. How can you complain about people critiquing your body when you’re literally like, ‘Look at my body!’

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

I love taking the salads I get from those crazy organic delivery places and putting them on a plate and then roasting my own lamb to put on top. I balance it well. And listen, if I’m not eating Waffle House and Taco Bell and Jack in the Box, anything will make me lose weight.

I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn’t even cook that much in high school. I was busy being a teenager and doing everything that goes along with that.

I have to have breakfast, and breakfast has to be eggs!

I love portobello mushrooms. I often say that if I were vegetarian, I would live off of these. Now, it would never happen, but it’s still nice to know that they exist. So meaty, so flavorful.

My spray-tan woman is amazing. She comes to my house at 10 o’clock the night before a shoot. The results are so brown, flawless, and natural. It’s just weird because my natural skin color is very white, almost whitish yellow.

No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women’s rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I always have cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother. It’s an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources.

I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That’s what makes me happy.

I’m only four weeks out from birth, so I still have a couple more weeks before I can work out – which is fine with me. I love the feeling of working out, but I’ve never been a gym rat, ever, so now, it’s all about taking in what I can if it’s good for the baby, because it all translates to her in a way.

St. Tropez has a face glow that is amazing – you can put it on without makeup, and your skin just glows.

I can’t sleep without the TV on, so we leave it on during the night, and that’s what wakes me up – Joe Scarborough and ‘Morning Joe’ at 7:30 or 8.

I always thought the name of my first book would be ‘The Insecure Chef,’ because when I started cooking, I was so nervous.

I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.

I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean – no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.

I have to have breakfast, and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy.

Models eat. They’re crazy about moderation, but they eat.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

Dieting is becoming easier and easier for me because I’m finding out things that I love.

I am huge on bold, strong flavors, and I think every aspect of a dish should be thoughtful, whether it’s the chicken on top of a Cobb salad or the topping on a savory casserole.

I work out every day. I still feel fit and energetic. In a way, I’m healthier now that I’m pregnant.

I really do love social media. I’ve always been crazy about – even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.

For me, being involved in fashion is fun. But I like to be relatable and to wear things that other people can wear, too.

I’ve always been kind of uncomfortable just on the beach in a swimsuit. I’m never my most confident in a bikini on the beach, especially when you know people are looking at you, and they expect one thing because of what they see in the magazines, and you might not look that way. It’s always been a scary thing for me.

That’s one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

Blogs are evil. Actually, the blogs aren’t as evil as blog comments.

I dyed my own hair this Chocolate Cherry color, and I forget what brand it was, but I remember getting into so much trouble because it stained our bathtub. It was this red-black color, and it was a big mistake.

One year, we tried to deep-fry a turkey. It must have been really humid outside, because the temperature of the oil got thrown off. It ended up being slow-cooked in oil – black on the outside and raw on the inside.

Even on television, I am full of fake hair and covered in body makeup head-to-toe.

Bachelor parties are for the married guys.

People are still under the misguided impression that models don’t eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do!

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

I remember making my own dog food and feeling very fulfilled by it, then by day four I was over it.

Men and Pilates – it’s like the hardest thing on the planet to them! They’re not used to getting those muscles. Core and butt and stuff – they’re so confused.

I love my husband’s fried chicken, but I took it to the next level by swiping it with Cholula honey butter – I’m a total hot-sauce freak.

People think I’m consuming all the time, based on my Instagram feed, but I know how to eat and how to pair. I might post the heaviest osso bucco of all time, but I’m not showing the carrots I’m having on the side rather than having a whole other big dish of something.

If you put pesto in a squeeze bottle or just at the end of a spoon and drizzle it, it looks so much better. It’s the little things. Plating is actually easy once you learn the little tips.

I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying… my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

Some people, I think, think that because I don’t take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it’s stupid. I don’t at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don’t take it seriously.

It’s so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy – and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

I hate the word ‘moist.’

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don’t want to hear you speak.

I feel badly for those girls who have to be so waif thin, doing those catwalks all the time because, luckily, we’re going into a different time – that’s what they’re saying, at least – in we’re appreciating a curvier figure. But to be honest, I couldn’t be like an hourglass if I tried.

I love Thai boat noodles: They are kind of like pho, but with a very hearty broth. I will make the broth and just do no noodles and more bean sprouts. I need to be able to eat what I want to eat, so I just get rid of as many carbs as possible that go into it.

A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I’m not quite ready for that super part yet, and I’m afraid that by the time I am, I’m going to be too old anyway.

My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer the night before, and when I take them out in the morning they are already cold and active and are great under my eyes. I keep my eye pads right next to my red velvet Ben & Jerry’s in the freezer.

I always get to eat what I want because if I don’t, I go insane.

I don’t like karaoke. But maybe that’s why I’m so perfect for ‘Lip Sync Battle,’ because I get to still hear the song I love and watch the performances that I love without having to hear someone sing.