--- title: Chrissy Teigen Shares Touching Response to Crazy Rich Asians description: Chrissy Teigen took to her Instagram to share her emotional reaction to seeing 'Crazy Rich Asians' with her family. canonical: https://time.com/5379279/chrissy-teigen-on-crazy-rich-asians/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-27T17:03:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:32.353Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Shares Touching Response to Crazy Rich Asians og:description: "I could have never imagined how wonderful it would be" og:url: https://time.com/5379279/chrissy-teigen-on-crazy-rich-asians/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc99f457bfd4b7f9c/698938cc656a3f892abd550e/chrissy-teigen-crazy-rich-asians.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Airbnb Concerts - John Legend Summer of LVE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Shares Touching Response to Crazy Rich Asians twitter:description: "I could have never imagined how wonderful it would be" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc99f457bfd4b7f9c/698938cc656a3f892abd550e/chrissy-teigen-crazy-rich-asians.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen Shares Touching Reaction to Watching _Crazy Rich Asians_ With Her Family > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Airbnb) Jerod Harris—Getty Images for Airbnb  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 27, 2018 5:03 PM UTC While [Chrissy Teigen](http://time.com/5312445/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-donate-to-aclu-for-donald-trump-birthday/) is well-known for her sassy and [honest humor on social media](http://time.com/5318564/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-arthur-meme-trolling/), the model and cookbook author kept the same candor while opening up about the emotional moments she had while watching [_Crazy Rich Asians_](http://time.com/5378619/crazy-rich-asians-box-office/)with her family. Teigen took to her Instagram on Sunday to share the touching moment she had while watching the hit romantic comedy with daughter Luna and [husband John Legend](http://time.com/5233865/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-relationship-timeline/), detailing how important it was for not only her, but her daughter to see characters that looked like them on-screen. In her caption, Teigen, who wrote of her “Asian American upbringing,” elaborated on why the film meant so much to her. “You never know how much you miss being represented on screen until you actually see what it’s like to be represented,” Teigen wrote. “And represented by all different types of characters with all different types of personalities, just like any other great movie.” See Teigen’s full post below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5379279/chrissy-teigen-on-crazy-rich-asians/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5379279/chrissy-teigen-on-crazy-rich-asians/"},"headline":"Chrissy Teigen Shares Touching Reaction to Watching Crazy Rich Asians With Her Family","datePublished":"2018-08-27T17:03:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:32.353Z","description":"\"You never know how much you miss being represented on screen until you actually see what it’s like to be represented\"","url":"https://time.com/5379279/chrissy-teigen-on-crazy-rich-asians/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc99f457bfd4b7f9c/698938cc656a3f892abd550e/chrissy-teigen-crazy-rich-asians.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/bltc99f457bfd4b7f9c/698938cc656a3f892abd550e/chrissy-teigen-crazy-rich-asians.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Airbnb Concerts - John Legend Summer of LVE","caption":"Airbnb Concerts - John Legend Summer of LVE","creditText":"Jerod Harris—Getty Images for Airbnb","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/5379279/chrissy-teigen-on-crazy-rich-asians/","name":"Chrissy Teigen Shares Touching Reaction to Watching Crazy Rich Asians With Her Family"}}]}] ```