{"id":24255,"date":"2019-05-24T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1044250"},"modified":"2019-05-24T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:24:07","slug":"chrissy-teigen-says-she-never-thought-of-herself-as-a-real-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/chrissy-teigen-says-she-never-thought-of-herself-as-a-real-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissy Teigen Says She Never Thought of Herself &#8220;as a Real Model&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.392094017094\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019424\/rs_634x793-190524101757-634-Chrissy-Teigen-2-LT-052419-Sebastian-Kim-PorterEdit.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Chrissy Teigen, Porter Edit\" alt=\"Chrissy Teigen, Porter Edit\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Sebastian Kim\/PorterEdit\/ NET-A-PORTER.COM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.059350503919\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chrissy_teigen\">Chrissy Teigen<\/a><\/strong> has come a long way from relying on free burritos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, fans know the 33-year-old star as a standout voice on social media, a host, a model, a cookbook author,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_legend\">John Legend<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s other half and mom to two of the most adorable youngsters on her Instagram feed.&nbsp;However, while life today continues to be peppered with red carpets, A-list friends and luxury getaways, the multi-hyphenate has not forgotten her humble beginnings as an aspiring teenage model. As Teigen put it in a new interview with&nbsp;NET-A-PORTER&#8217;s weekly digital magazine, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/porter\/article-c4665f902c64f0e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PorterEdit<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;it was the least glamorous way to model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never thought of myself as a&nbsp;<em>real<\/em>&nbsp;model. I made consistent money working for catalogues and websites, where they didn&#8217;t care if your eyes were open or closed, because you didn&#8217;t even see my face. I was modeling the back of a shirt with words on it,&#8221; Teigen recalled to <em>PorterEdit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>As Teigen recalled to the digital magazine, she moved to Miami Beach, where she lived with five other people in a model apartment with just two bedrooms. &#8220;I would sleep on the sofa. We were all just working to break even, just to pay the rent,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My roommates were drinking diet tea and eating cotton balls soaked in chicken broth to stay skinny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the star relied on a pal&#8217;s gig. &#8220;I remember my friend got a job working at a burrito restaurant and that&#8217;s all I ate for months. Free burritos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019424\/rs_1024x683-190524101834-1024-Chrissy-Teigen-3-LT-052419-Sebastian-Kim-PorterEdit.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Chrissy Teigen, Porter Edit\" alt=\"Chrissy Teigen, Porter Edit\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"683\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Sebastian Kim\/PorterEdit\/ NET-A-PORTER.COM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.193502824859\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"10.285310734463\">\n<p>Suffice to say, Teigen, who landed the cover of the <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> Swimsuit Issue in 2014 with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nina_agdal\">Nina Agdal<\/a><\/strong>and&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lily_aldridge\">Lily Aldridge<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;has come a long way from not having her face shown in magazines. Today, her Instagram account alone, featuring an array of snaps of her and her famous family&#8217;s everyday life, has attracted more than 24 million followers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.416909620991\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019424\/rs_634x797-190524101725-634-Chrissy-Teigen-Cover-LT-052419-Sebastian-Kim-PorterEdit.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Chrissy Teigen, Porter Edit, Cover\" alt=\"Chrissy Teigen, Porter Edit, Cover\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Sebastian Kim\/PorterEdit\/ NET-A-PORTER.COM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.720062208398\">\n<p>And, while the posts can vary from selects of Teigen from a recent photo shoot to videos of her daughter in dance class, the star does have one particular boundary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing that happens that we really feel we can&#8217;t post,&#8221; she told <em>PorterEdit<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to post pictures of the kids that they may see in ten years and be embarrassed by, but that&#8217;s it. We&#8217;re not pretending that life is perfect. I&#8217;m not the person who goes to work and posts the glam photos. When I&#8217;m on set, I love to be present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>To see the full interview with Chrissy Teigen, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/porter\/article-c4665f902c64f0e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PorterEdit<\/a> and\/or download the Net-A-Porter app for iPhone, iPad and Android.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1044250\/chrissy-teigen-says-she-never-thought-of-herself-as-a-real-model?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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