A history of Chrissy Teigen’s feuds
Chrissy Teigen is known as the queen of Twitter — and like any sovereign, she has scuffled with many of her subjects along the way.
The model, who has racked up millions of followers since joining the social media platform in 2009, has had public spats over the years with celebrities and public figures including Donald Trump, Courtney Stodden and Tyra Banks.
That’s why Page Six is breaking down Teigen’s biggest — and most infamous — feuds.
Donald Trump
One of Teigen’s most notable feuds involved a former president of the United States.
She famously went head to head with Donald Trump via Twitter during the 2016 election and throughout his time in the White House. That is, until Trump blocked her on the app.
“After 9 years of hating Donald J Trump, telling him ‘lol no one likes you’ was the straw,” Teigen wrote on Twitter in July 2017 alongside a screenshot of a message saying Trump had blocked her.
While she laughed off the move, Teigen did admit that not being able to see Trump’s Twitter gave her anxiety because he often used the platform to communicate with the country (and to call her the “filthy mouthed wife” of John Legend).
“Do I get in the bunker or not?” she joked at the time.
Alison Roman
Teigen’s beef with Alison Roman has lingering effects to this day.
The “Cravings” cookbook author slammed the former New York Times writer after Roman criticized Teigen’s career trajectory into the food world.
“What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me,” Roman told The New Consumer in May 2020. “She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that.”
Roman criticized organizing consultant and Netflix star Marie Kondo’s success as well.
Teigen then tweeted out Page Six’s coverage of the ordeal and shared how hurt she was that Roman would bash two successful Asian women.
Roman apologized to Teigen, admitting that her “stupid, careless, and insensitive” words came from “white privilege.”
They ultimately squashed their beef, but Roman’s Times column was temporarily shelved following the controversy. Teigen called on the newspaper to reinstate Roman, but in December 2020, the writer announced that she wouldn’t be returning to her post.
Courtney Stodden
Teigen’s public fight with Courtney Stodden took the internet by storm.
Stodden, who came out as non-binary in April 2021, claimed in an interview that Teigen used to cyberbully them and tell them to kill themself.
“She wouldn’t just publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dirt nap’ but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself. Things like, ‘I can’t wait for you to die,’” the reality star alleged to the Daily Beast in May 2021.
The “Lip Sync Battle” co-host subsequently apologized to Stodden in a lengthy Twitter thread.
“Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past bulls–t in front of the entire world,” she wrote. “I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be.”
She added, “I was an insecure, attention seeking troll. I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that…is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel.”
After the bullying allegations came to light, news broke that Teigen’s cookware line had been pulled from the Macy’s website. Her cookware line was also removed from Target but for unrelated reasons.
Farrah Abraham
Teigen had some nasty words to say about “Teen Mom” star Farrah Abraham in 2013.
“Farrah Abraham now thinks she is pregnant from her sex tape,” she tweeted at the time, adding, “In other news you’re a whore and everyone hates you whoops not other news sorry.”
Critics immediately slammed Teigen for “slut-shaming” Farrah, who had made a sex tape with porn star James Dean, but the Sports Illustrated cover girl was quick to defend herself.
“How is calling out a willing (lied-as-leaked) sex tape participant who hired paps to photo her buying preg tests this AM slut shaming?” she tweeted (via Distractify). “Wow. amazed to see the outrage behind calling a staged leaked sex tape chick from teen mom exactly what she is. go on with your bad selves.”
Her words against Abraham resurfaced in 2021, with several Twitter users calling for the model to be “canceled.”
Political commentator Candace Owens led the pack in calling for a boycott of Teigen’s products.
Quvenzhané Wallis
Teigen doesn’t just pick on people her own size. The “Bring the Funny” judge didn’t have the nicest words to say about child actress Quvenzhané Wallis in 2011.
At the time, Wallis was nominated for an Oscar for her role in “Beasts of the Southern Wild” at just 9 years old, but Teigen wasn’t completely sold on her talents.
“Is it okay to call a small child cocky?” she wrote in a now-deleted tweet (via Newsweek). “I am forced to like Quvenzhané Wallis because she’s a child right? Okay fine.”
Teigen’s harsh comments resurfaced amid her drama with Stodden, with critics calling on the model to apologize to a then-teenage Wallis.
Tyra Banks
Teigen has a tumultuous past with fellow model Tyra Banks.
As Page Six reported in 2015, the two sparred behind the scenes of their talk show “FabLife.”
“You never put two supermodels on the same show together,” a TV insider said of the rift at the time. “Especially when one’s more than 10 years younger than the other.”
The source explained that the stars’ personalities clashed as they had very different approaches to the series.
“They are so different. Tyra thinks about everything. She thinks about what to say, down to when to move her arm. Chrissy is from the new school, where she says whatever she wants,” the insider said.
Another source, however, claimed there was nothing but love between the pair.
“If Tyra had a problem with Chrissy, she wouldn’t be on the show,” the second source insisted. “They’re friends, there’s no drama.”
But Banks announced that she would be departing the show shortly after, and “FabLife” was canceled after just one season.
Katie Cassidy
Teigen doesn’t just fight her own battles; she gets involved in other people’s drama too.
The former “Deal or No Deal” briefcase model infamously ragged on Katie Cassidy after the “Arrow” actress slammed sports journalist Erin Andrews.
Responding to Andrews’ postgame interview with NFL player Richard Sherman, Cassidy tweeted, “Seriously why isn’t she doing her job?”
That’s when Teigen decided to step in and defend Andrews’ honor.
“JOB [noun] : the work a person does regularly to make money. alt: what @ErinAndrews has. 2nd alt: What you don’t have. Bye!” she wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
She added, “own it. I’ll take you seriously when you don’t simultaneously talk s - - t and preach the gospel.”
They tweeted back and forth at each other, with Cassidy writing, “I’m sorry u have negativity inside u. Can’t be healthy. 2 be clear, not s–t talking. But interesting u took it that way.”
As luck would have it, Andrews was at the time dating NHL star Jarret Stoll, to whom Cassidy was previously romantically linked.
