My Weekend Crush

Kittens, sweet sweet kittens. You’ve indulged my politicking while I pontificated on that whole hopey changey lady power yay gay stuff. So now, after a sufficient period of shameless revelry, I feel you deserve a treat. Something sweet and savory. Something hot and tasty. Something like a swimsuit model. Yeah, I told you it was a treat. Now, I’m not normally the type to go for swimsuit models. Nothing against them, bless them and their sun-kissed bodies. But it’s just that all we normally learn about their personalities could fit on the back of a G-string. But Chrissy Teigen, well, she’s different. She’s got so much personality, you almost forget she’s a swimsuit model. Well, almost.

Many people probably know her as John Legend’s fiancé, which she is. Or they could know her from her multiple appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, which she did. But me, me I know her from The Tweeter Machines. I started following Chrissy on Twitter after seeing some of her very funny posts retweeted in my feed. And I thought, who is this lady? Well, it turns out she’s a lot of things. She’s hot, duh. But she’s also funny, smart, progressive, candid and unwilling to suffer fools who think just because she’s a model she should shut up and be pretty. She won’t be cowed and remains delightfully unfiltered. Also, she’s a foodie, who has her own food blog and went to cooking school. And loves to drunk tweet. Yeah, I know. No wonder John snapped her up. In fact, she’s the kind of woman who makes me respect the person she is with even more because they had the good taste to be with her. But don’t take my word for it. Take hers.

I post a pic of me making John stir fry. John just sitting. And the comments are about how lucky I am. Ahem?

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen)July 6, 2012

vegan hates: meat. vegan loves: saying they're vegan.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen)July 12, 2012

I literally pose half naked for a living and u are still the biggest attention whore I know RT @realdonaldtrump Story will be released today

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) October 24, 2012

one of the best things I have ever done in life: drunkenly asked barack obama if he thinks mitt romney is a robot. then I made robot noises.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) August 7, 2012

one time i threw up red wine through the massage table hole so that's the caliber of person you're dealing with right now.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) August 5, 2012

I brush and floss like a madman before the dentist so you can imagine how busy my morning has been prepping for the gyno.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) February 20, 2012

my least favorite part about my line of work is that you guys have no idea how much they do to us in retouching. you wouldn't feel so bad.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) August 5, 2012

...it happens to every single photo you see. no one is perfect and I am always amazed at what they make me look like. so stop, ladies!

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) August 5, 2012

All that and she isn’t half bad to look at. Happy weekend, all.