--- title: Chrissy Teigen on Post-Baby Modeling description: Chrissy Teigen, who will appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, sounds off about modeling with a post-baby body after having Luna. canonical: https://time.com/4666881/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-10T14:14:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:45.310Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen: My Body Post-Baby Will Never Be the Same og:description: And that's just fine og:url: https://time.com/4666881/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b54c9a366f81164/6988b9aa4dd2153ce9efdb56/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Target's Toycracker Premiere Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen: My Body Post-Baby Will Never Be the Same twitter:description: And that's just fine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b54c9a366f81164/6988b9aa4dd2153ce9efdb56/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen: My Body Post-Baby Will Never Be the Same by [Steve Helling / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Steve Helling / People Contributor Feb 10, 2017 2:14 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 07: Chrissy Teigen attends Target's Toycracker Premiere event at Spring Studios on December 7, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/WireImage) NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 07: Chrissy Teigen attends Target's Toycracker Premiere event at Spring Studios on December 7, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/WireImage)John Lamparski—WireImage by [Steve Helling / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Steve Helling / People Contributor Feb 10, 2017 2:14 PM UTC [**Chrissy Teigen**](http://people.com/tag/chrissy-teigen/) is no stranger to posing for the _Sports Illustrated_ Swimsuit issue. She was a 2010 “Rookie of the Year,” and has appeared in the magazine several times since. Teigen recently unveiled her plans to appear in the [2017 _SI_ Swimsuit issue](http://www.si.com/swim-daily/2017/01/27/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-body-posing-si-swimsuit-2017-bikini) — but she acknowledges that things are different this time. The 31-year-old model became a mom last year to [10-month-old daughter](http://people.com/babies/chrissy-teigen-daughter/) **Luna Simone**. And while she is still comfortable in her own skin, she acknowledges that pregnancy and childbirth have affected her body. PEOPLE caught up with Teigen at a beach in Miami as she shot a commercial for [Vita Coco](http://vitacoco.com/). (She’s the brand’s new spokesperson and was filming its first ever national commercial.) After chatting about husband **John Legend**, Teigen spoke candidly about how motherhood has changed her modeling career. “When I was pregnant, I stepped away from any modeling,” Teigen says. “I didn’t want to be like, ‘Oh my God, I have a Victoria’s Secret show coming up.’ I needed to take that out of the picture and focus on being pregnant, having a healthy baby, and being a mom. That was my priority, not how I looked.” Teigen says she blocked out the pressure to lose the baby weight. “I had something much more important going on than how my body looked,” she says. “I wanted to get back to being active and healthy again, but I wasn’t going to obsess about it. I worked out, I took care of myself, but I didn’t obsess about it.” Above all, she knows that things are different now. “I’m comfortable with my body, but I know that it will never be the same,” she says. “Luna has changed a lot about my body. My bones feel a bit weaker, my back, my everything. But I’m okay with it. I have this little face to look at all the time. Whatever happened to my body, it’s completely worth it.” _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/babies/chrissy-teigen-body-after-baby-modeling/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4666881/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4666881/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling/"},"headline":"Chrissy Teigen: My Body Post-Baby Will Never Be the Same","datePublished":"2017-02-10T14:14:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:45.310Z","description":"And that's just fine","url":"https://time.com/4666881/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b54c9a366f81164/6988b9aa4dd2153ce9efdb56/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Steve Helling / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b54c9a366f81164/6988b9aa4dd2153ce9efdb56/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Target's Toycracker Premiere Event","caption":"Target's Toycracker Premiere Event","creditText":"John Lamparski—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/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4666881/chrissy-teigen-post-baby-modeling/","name":"Chrissy Teigen: My Body Post-Baby Will Never Be the Same"}}]}] ```