After more than a decade on Twitter, Chrissy Teigen is fed up with the social network.
The model, TV personality, author and entrepreneur posted a topic on Twitter on Wednesday, telling more than 13.7 million followers that she was leaving the platform – before deleting the account.
“Hey. For over 10 years, you have been my world. Honestly, I owe a lot to this world that we created here. I really consider many of you to be my true friends,” wrote Teigen in the farewell message. “But it’s time to I say goodbye. It no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively, and I think it’s the right time to call something. ”
Teigen’s departure from Twitter is a blow to the company, which for years has been trying to improve its ability to contain harassment, bullying and other harmful behaviors. The trolls affected Teigen: “For years, I have thrown so many small punches and counting 2 followers that, at this point, I am sincerely with many bruises”, she tweeted on Wednesday.
In a recent example, Teigen last Monday announced on Twitter that she and Kris Jenner were launching a line of herbal cleaning products – and she received a flood of harsh criticism. In the midst of the reaction, Teigen wrote: “I don’t really wake up every day trying to drive him crazy, but somehow I do it. and you say that I have no talent. this is something I think. “
In his final Twitter post, Teigen wrote: “My life goal is to make people happy. The pain I feel when I don’t do it is too much for me. I’ve always been portrayed as the strong girl who claps, but I’m just not. My desire to be loved and fear of irritating people made me someone you didn’t sign up for, and a different human being than I started here! Live well, tweeters. Please know that all I ever cared about was you !!! “
Teigen joined Twitter in May 2009. His accounts on other platforms remain active, including on Instagram and YouTube.
As a frank, funny and prolific tweeter, Teigen shared her political views along with personal reflections, recipes and photos with her husband, singer John Legend.
In July 2017, Teigen was blocked by former President Donald Trump (whom Twitter banned forever after the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol). In response to a tweet from Trump that said: “It is very sad that Republicans, even some who were carried on my back, do very little to protect their president,” wrote Teigen: “Lolllll, no one likes you.” A few days later, Teigen shared that Trump had blocked her: “After 9 years of hating Donald J. Trump, telling him ‘lol nobody likes you’ was the last straw.”
After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and his team took over the White House’s official social accounts, Teigen’s Twitter account was among the first group followed by @POTUS. She tweeted in surprise, “My heart, my God, lmao, I can finally see the president’s tweets and they probably won’t be confused.”