Luckily, the secret was kept until the time was right. Airport TSA almost botched the surprised when they wanted to take a look inside Legend’s bag, including the small box he had stowed away inside. Teigen said it was on this trip that she knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life with Legend.Ī post shared by chrissy teigen on at 8:23am PDTĪfter four years of dating, Legend popped the question on a vacation in Maldives. The couple forged on and soon traveled to Lake Como, Italy together, the location of their future marriage and filming location for the “All of Me” music video. I always joke, ‘Remember when you tried to break up with me?’ He’s like, ‘Yes, sorry. It was the stress of him having to maybe cancel a show, and he had never been in a real relationship-or so he says now. I knew it came from a place other than us not working. He was like, ‘I can’t be in a relationship right now.’ That lasted for one day. Teigen recalled: “He was feeling really bummed and stressed out. After he got sick and had to cancel a show, stress got the better of Legend and he had a mini lapse in judgment. Relationship goals ? #johnlegendandchrissyteigen #relationshipgoalsĪ post shared by Haley Sutcliffe on at 11:27am PSTĮarly in their relationship, Teigen joined Legend on tour. Never once did I ask, ‘What are we?’ Marriage was never my goal because I’ve never been very traditional. “The worst thing you can do is try to lock someone like that down early on, then have them think, ‘There’s so much more out there.’ I played it cool for a long time. “I let him be himself for a while,” Teigen told Cosmopolitan in 2014. They didn’t make it official until months later because Legend took off on tour shortly after their encounter. The two parted ways the next day excited to move on and further their burgeoning careers.
“We spent the entire day together, me in my underwear and him in a full suit, and I went to go say goodbye to him, to his hotel and we didn’t ever say goodbye that night.”
“We did the music video, we were together for like 12 hours,” Teigen told Wendy Williams in 2014. However, when their shoot was over, they did end up eating burgers in Legend’s hotel room and hooking up. The two got to know each other (including an awkward moment when Teigen walked in on Legend ironing his underwear), but it wasn’t instant love. Teigen, a model, was only 21 years old at the time. The two met when Teigen was on set starring in the music video for Legend’s “Stereo” in 2007. With the couple constantly making headlines, many fans don’t know the actual story of how the two first met. Where Did John Legend and Chrissy Teigen First Meet? Besides the fact that Teigen’s online presence is social media gold, the duo stays busy, with Legend performing on the iHeartRadio Music Awards and hosting the current season of The Voice, and Teigen authoring two cookbooks and landing on multiple best-seller lists. Singer-songwriter and EGOT winner John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are one of the internet’s favorite famous couples.
"We're helping each other get through it.John Legend and Chrissy Teigen attend the 70th annual Emmy Awards last year in Los Angeles. "There's a lot of dark sides to this moment, but the fact that these can be some of the silver linings that we have, it makes it feel like we're experiencing it together, even though we're distancing from each other," he shared.
Meanwhile, Legend has been one of several artists who have been performing for fans from home on Instagram Live, and he explained how, despite the disconnect between people due to social distancing, it's moments like that which are helping people deal with these troubling times. and we just have to do a little bit of finishing up." "Either way, most of it's already recorded. I'm not sure how we're going to execute the string recording, because I don't know how we can distance ourselves in an orchestral recording, but we'll figure it out," he reflected. "The new album is coming, we're mixing it, we're getting out strings finished. Before serenading viewers with a performance of his new song "Actions," Legend dished on when fans could expect his sultry new songs.