Chrissy Teigen was moved to pay tribute to her son Jack on what would be his birth date on Saturday.
The 35-year-old model shared a photo on her Instagram Stories of her wrist adorned with bracelets bearing the names of her children, including one for Jack.
She and her husband John Legend, 42, announced that their son Jack was stillborn in September after she suffered significant bleeding.
Missing him: Chrissy Teigen, 35, shared a photo of a bracelet made for her stillborn son Jack as she gloomily celebrated her birth date on Saturday
‘Today was his due date,’ Chrissy captioned the dark photo. ‘We love you forever,’ she added with a purple heart emoji.
She also wore bracelets in capital letters for her children Luna, four, and Miles, two.
The Chrissy’s Court star had her pregnancy loss on her mind all February, when she revealed on social media that she was feeling ‘a little disconnected’.
‘my little jack would have been born this week, so i’m a little out’, she tweeted on February 3rd. ‘I really feel kicks in the belly, but it’s not a ghost. I have surgery for endometriosis tomorrow … but the menstrual sensation this month is just like baby kicks. sigh.’
Memories: ‘Today was your due date’, Chrissy captioned the dark photo. ‘We love you forever,’ she added with a purple heart emoji; seen in 2019 in Culver City, California.
Out of her mind: the Chrissy’s Court star had a pregnancy loss on her mind throughout February, as revealed on social media that she was feeling a little “out of control” due to her endometriosis, which required surgery
Chrissy and John announced that they were expecting their third child in August 2020, but she started sharing some of her heavily bleeding struggles in September.
She revealed that she had lost her son in an anguished series of black and white photos shared on Instagram.
“We are shocked and with the kind of deep pain that you only hear about, the kind of pain that we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite the bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough, ‘she wrote at the time.
‘For our Jack – I am very sorry that the first moments of his life suffered so many complications, that we were unable to give him the house he needed to survive. We will always love you. ‘
Chrissy was seen sobbing in her hospital bed, and her husband comforted her in another moving photo while they were cradling Jack’s body.
Heartwarming: Chrissy revealed that she had lost her pregnancy in a harrowing series of black and white photos taken in her hospital room after Jack was born dead in September
Saying goodbye: ‘To our Jack – I am very sorry that the first moments of your life have been with so many complications, that we were unable to give you the house you needed to survive. We will always love you, ‘she wrote
Numb: She looked stunned in a tweet posted soon after. – Coming home from the hospital without a baby. How can this be real ‘, she wrote
She looked stunned in a tweet posted shortly afterwards, writing: ‘Driving home from the hospital without a baby. How can this be real. ‘
In early February, Chrissy appeared on her friend Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show, where the subject revolved around her pregnancy loss.
Ellen called her ‘super brave’ for sharing the nude photos from the hospital, which Chrissy said looked ‘a long time ago’.
“Even though I think about it now, I’m still in therapy about it and I’m still coming to terms with it,” said the Bring The Funny judge, via People.
‘I have maternity clothes, and there are things I bought for my eighth month and my ninth month. So it’s difficult because he would have been born this week, so you look at these things and you have these constant reminders. ‘
Moving on: in early February, Ellen DeGeneres called Chrissy ‘super brave’ for sharing the nude photos from the hospital, which Chrissy said looked ‘a long time ago’
You can’t escape: ‘I have maternity clothes and there are things I bought for my eighth month and my ninth month. So it’s difficult because he would have been born this week, so you look at those things and have these constant reminders, ‘continued Chrissy
Chrissy was happy to be ‘raised in a house that was very open about loss’, which helped her see how ‘it can be a beautiful thing’.
‘It was a really transformative thing for me and in a way it really saved me, because I don’t think I would have discovered therapy and then sobriety and this way of feeling good about myself and feeling like a new person.’
She added that her sons Luna and Miles helped keep Jack’s memory alive.
“It’s been so beautiful to see my kids, the way they talk about him,” said Chrissy. ‘Are we going to the beach or something and they’ll say,’ Is Baby Jack with us now? Do you think he’s in the clouds? ‘It is so beautiful and so sweet. ‘
Adorable: She added that her Luna and Miles helped keep Jack’s memory alive. ‘Are we going to the beach or something and they’ll say,’ Is Baby Jack with us now? Do you think he’s in the clouds? ‘It’s so beautiful and so sweet’