Chrissy Teigen was craving something different.

The cookbook author is getting candid about her time taking Ozempic, explaining she started taking the type 2 diabetes medication—which has been shown to help with weight loss—after losing her and husband John Legend ’s son Jack in September 2020.

“I had two babies and then I lost a baby a little over 20 weeks,” Chrissy explained on the Sept. 18 episode of her podcast Self-Conscious . “My body was just completely stuck. It was like in shock, almost.”

Throughout the 20 weeks she was pregnant with Jack , Chrissy—who also shares children Luna , 9, Miles , 7, Esti , 2, and Wren , 2, with John—gained an estimated 40 pounds that she “wasn’t comfortable with.”

The weight gain also served as a re

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