--- title: Chrissy Teigen Got Tattoo With Stranger to Tease John Legend description: Chrissy Teigen, model and expert troll, might have pulled off her best burn yet: getting back tats with a stranger to tease John Legend. canonical: https://time.com/4778958/chrissy-teigen-tattoo-prank/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-15T16:32:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:38.131Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Got Tattoo With Stranger to Tease John Legend og:description: The model pulled a prank to get back at him for dancing with a fan og:url: https://time.com/4778958/chrissy-teigen-tattoo-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609f30754001cdb6/6988cd41ab6d77087f6ae191/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-tattoo-stranger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Disney's "Beauty And The Beast" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Got Tattoo With Stranger to Tease John Legend twitter:description: The model pulled a prank to get back at him for dancing with a fan twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609f30754001cdb6/6988cd41ab6d77087f6ae191/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-tattoo-stranger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen Got Matching Back Tattoos With a Stranger to Get Back at John Legend for Dancing With a Fan > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 15, 2017 4:32 PM UTC  HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 02: Model Chrissy Teigen (L) and husband/musician John Legend arrive at the Premiere Of Disney's 'Beauty And The Beast' at the El Capitan Theatre on March 2, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage) HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 02: Model Chrissy Teigen (L) and husband/musician John Legend arrive at the Premiere Of Disney's 'Beauty And The Beast' at the El Capitan Theatre on March 2, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage) Jeffrey Mayer—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 15, 2017 4:32 PM UTC [Chrissy Teigen](http://motto.time.com/4769373/chrissy-teigen-plastic-surgery/), model, [Twitter fairy godmother](http://time.com/4395300/chrissy-teigen-bought-fan-blender/), and [expert Internet troll](http://time.com/4690893/chrissy-teigen-comeback/), might have pulled off her best burn yet: getting a matching back tattoo with a random stranger to tease her husband [John Legend](http://time.com/4476379/john-legend-activism-fatherhood-music/). Teigen, who’s currently on the road with daughter Luna for Legend’s _Darkness and Light_ tour, took to a beachside henna tattoo shop in Florida with Luna and stranger-turned-tattoo-compatriot Eddie to get temporary tattoos to “get back” at Legend for dancing with a female fan during his concert. Thankfully for us, Teigen documented the entire episode on Snapchat, even telling fans that they “get to pick your ultimate henna on my lower back.” A friend of Teigen’s who filmed the event on Snapchat added some further commentary on the hilarious escapade. “John got to dance with a woman at his concert, so Chrissy gets to take one man and hold hands with him,” Teigen’s friend said before they found Eddie. “John, don’t be jealous!” Not only did Teigen walk hand-in-hand with Eddie to the shop, they both got matching lower back henna tattoos that simply read: “It’s a prank bruh.” Watch Chrissy tease John Legend with the ultimate prank below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4778958/chrissy-teigen-tattoo-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4778958/chrissy-teigen-tattoo-prank/"},"headline":"Chrissy Teigen Got Matching Back Tattoos With a Stranger to Get Back at John Legend for Dancing With a Fan","datePublished":"2017-05-15T16:32:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:38.131Z","description":"Relationship goals","url":"https://time.com/4778958/chrissy-teigen-tattoo-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Chrissy Teigen","john legend"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609f30754001cdb6/6988cd41ab6d77087f6ae191/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-tattoo-stranger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt609f30754001cdb6/6988cd41ab6d77087f6ae191/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-tattoo-stranger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Disney's \"Beauty And The Beast\" - Arrivals","caption":"Premiere Of Disney's \"Beauty And The Beast\" - Arrivals","creditText":"Jeffrey Mayer—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4778958/chrissy-teigen-tattoo-prank/","name":"Chrissy Teigen Got Matching Back Tattoos With a Stranger to Get Back at John Legend for Dancing With a Fan"}}]}] ```