How Chrissy Teigen Is Finding Comfort After Her Dad’s Death: ‘Your Angels’
Chrissy Teigen and her family are saying goodbye to their patriarch, Ron Teigen, after his recent death.
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“Papa, your angels are together,” Chrissy, 40, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, June 13, sharing a photo of herself posing with mom Pepper, sister Tina, niece Pasha and daughter Luna.
In a follow-up pic of Pepper and an unidentified companion, Chrissy captioned the upload, “His loves.”
The Cravings founder announced on Wednesday, June 10, that her father died at the age of 86.
“Yesterday I woke up with a daddy and went to bed without one,” she wrote in a social media tribute, confirming Ron’s death. “All the same things happened. Hurried shower. Picked up stuffing from the dog toys. Answered some emails. Avoided some. Laughed with my friends and put on a pretty dress for a friend’s birthday. Took a video. How cute is this dress! And then my dad just like … f***ing died.”
Chrissy continued, “I thought that since we talk about it and I’ve come to terms with him always having been an ‘old dad’ that I wouldn’t have fallen to the ground the way I did. I’ve thought about this phone call for years. I’ll be ready.”
According to Chrissy, she recently wrote her dad an emotional letter “about how grateful [she] was for him” that she was able to deliver prior to his death.
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“[The letter was] about how hard he worked for us growing up and how much I love him. I am forever grateful for the moment I handed him the letter, and all our years before,” Chrissy said. “If you didn’t know my dad, my dad hated nearly everything in the world that wasn’t a bass guitar, swing dancing, wood carving, animals, YouTube or his family.”
The supermodel concluded, “God, I love you so much. I will talk to you every night. Thank you for being such a great dad. Until we complain again 🤍🤍🤍.”
Chrissy is married to singer John Legend, who issued his own tribute to his beloved father-in-law.
“We love you so much Papa Ron,” Legend, 47, wrote via Instagram at the time. “I’m so glad you got to spend so much time with your grandbabies. I loved seeing you beam with pride at the beautiful family you helped create.”
Chrissy, who shares four children with Legend, has been candid about her bereavement journey in the wake of her father’s death.
“There’s a lot of emotions. Everybody said it’d be, like, waves and it is,” she said in a candid Friday, June 12, social media video. “Me and my sister [are] joking, laughing ‘cause my dad was very funny and sarcastic. We talked about death and stuff, [but] … everything’s so weird.”
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This story was originally published June 14, 2026 at 12:54 PM.
