Chrissy Teigen defended her new love for horseback riding after being criticized for sharing videos of her hobby amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Over the weekend, the 35-year-old model told fans that she started riding as part of her therapy after losing her pregnancy last year.
“My therapist says that I need something that I can do just for myself, since I have absolutely nothing currently lol. Today my journey in the world of horses begins. I hope this guy likes me. he is so handsome and looks lazy, I love ”, she tweeted on Saturday.
But a critic criticized the celebrity for saying that she had “nothing” during a pandemic, when many people can’t even put food on the table.
“Many people are unemployed and struggling to feed their families in the midst of a pandemic. Perhaps now is not a good time to say that you ‘have nothing’, so you bought a horse for fun ”, tweeted the critic.
Teigen then clarified what she meant in her original tweet.
“Many of you really misinterpreted this tweet and I think it’s up to me,” she I wrote. “I didn’t say that I have nothing, I said that I have nothing that I do just for myself. A conversation with a therapist. A hobby. Because I lost a baby. And I’m discovering myself. And I didn’t buy a horse. But, my God, what if I did? “
When another troll replied again saying that Teigen must be “poisoned by wealth and privilege”, she He wrote back, “Why are you reading this so much? The boredom.”
And when the troll continued to beat the model, she fired back, “I understand. What do you want from me, an essay about me, thinking about you? It’s my Twitter. Am I talking about me?”
Teigen suffered a pregnancy loss in October 2020 after experiencing complications.
The following month, she revealed that she had been sober for four weeks.
Teigen and husband John Legend are the parents of daughter Luna, 4, and son Miles, 2.