--- title: Chrissy Teigen Defends Her Use of IVF to Internet Trolls description: Chrissy Teigen took to her Twitter account to defend herself after Internet trolls criticized her for using IVF. canonical: https://time.com/4827106/chrissy-teigen-ivf-troll-response/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-21T19:42:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:44.780Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Defends Her Decision to Use IVF on Twitter og:description: Don't come for Chrissy og:url: https://time.com/4827106/chrissy-teigen-ivf-troll-response/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Defends Her Decision to Use IVF on Twitter twitter:description: Don't come for Chrissy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Chrissy Teigen Just Handled Her Troll Who Questioned Her Decision to Use IVF > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=0099e13e-e8a6-46bd-aef5-f6e9af55afa7&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 21, 2017 7:42 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 21, 2017 7:42 PM UTC [Expert husband troll](http://time.com/4776490/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-trolling/) and [Twitter fairy godmother Chrissy Teigen](http://time.com/4395300/chrissy-teigen-bought-fan-blender/) isn’t afraid to let her opinion be known on the Internet, something that she made amply clear after Twitter trolls criticized her decision to use IVF to get pregnant in the past. The model, who has a daughter named Luna with husband John Legend, [has been vocal about the difficulty that she had conceiving a baby conventionally](http://motto.time.com/4654934/chrissy-teigen-ivf-plans-baby-boy/), as well as the couple’s decision to use IVF. So it should come as no surprise that she shared a funny embryo update with the world via Twitter with her trademark humor. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/877283931816701955) > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/877283974992863232) Predictably, the Internet jumped to conclusions, which Chrissy promptly shut down. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/877287807202578433) In a now-deleted tweet, one Twitter user criticized Chrissy as to why she chose to do IVF, which Chrissy handled in a very on-brand fashion. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/877369579839913984) Moral of the story? 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