BREAKING AWAY
Chrissy Teigen ‘taking break’ after Twitter users branded kids ‘petri dish babies’ and made Epstein jokes
CHRISSY Teigen has had enough of Twitter and is taking a break after trolls branded her kids ‘petri dish babies’ and made Epstein jokes over the feud with food writer Alison Roman.
The 34-year-old made the announcement on Sunday evening before making her account private.
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Taking to Twitter, The Lip Sync Battle host announced she was having ‘a little break’ from social media after being trolled over her feud with writer Alison Roman.
got into an online row last week with New York Times cookery writer Alison, after she criticized the mom’s cookery career.
After catching wind of the article, .
“This is a huge bummer and hit me hard. I have made her recipes for years now, bought the cookbooks, supported her on social and praised her in interviews.
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“I even signed on to executive produce the very show she talks about doing in this article,” the mom-of-two tweeted.
However as each of the women’s followers took sides, things took a nasty turn with many criticising Chrissy and husband John Legend for conceiving their children – Luna, four, and son Milo, one – via IVF.
Clapping back at one troll, Chrissy replied: “I couldn’t have babies any other way. You’re a really terrible person.”
The TV presenter shares two children, daughter , with singer John.
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She then wrote in a separate tweet: “Calling my kids Petri dish babies or making up flight manifests with my name on them to “Epstein island”, to justify someone else’s disdain with me seems gross to me so I’m gonna take a little break.’”
Chrissy added: “This is what always happens. The first day, a ton of support, then the next, 1 million reasons as to why you deserved this. It never fails.”
The drama began when Alison, 34, told The New Consumer: “What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me.
“She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target.
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“Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her.
"That horrifies me and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that,” she fired off.
The comments - which also slammed Netflix star Marie Kondo - went viral for it’s “anti-feminist tone.”
“Listen, you slammed two other women in the article. Which is fine, but it makes playing the sisterhood card seem a little bit bulls**t,” one person said to the writer.
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Another tweeted: “Please to buy my cutting board"?! What is that?! Were you mocking her accent?! I mean, I have honestly never ever heard of you b4 the piece showed up in my TL, but THAT s**t?! You're wrong for that!”
Not long after Alison’s interview and Chrissy’s comments went viral, the food writer issued a grovelling .
The New York Times columnist wrote: “Hi @chrissyteigen! I sent an email but also wanted to say here that I’m genuinely sorry I caused you pain with what I said,” Roman tweeted late on Friday.
"I shouldn’t have used you /your business (or Marie’s!) as an example to show what I wanted for my own career- it was flippant, careless and I’m so sorry.
"Being a woman who takes down other women is absolutely not my thing and don’t think it’s yours, either (I obviously failed to effectively communicate that). I hope we can meet one day, I think we’d probably get along."
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