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Chrissy Teigen revealed that one of her children with husband John Legend has been diagnosed with a lifelong health condition.
On Wednesday (July 31), the Cravings cookbook author shared that her and Legend’s 6-year-old son Miles was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The confirmation comes days after Teigen was seen cheering on Simone Biles at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Miles and her 8-year-old daughter Luna, the trio holding up signs spelling out the record-breaking gymnast’s name. However, many people quickly noticed that Miles had a monitor on his arm that Teigen has now confirmed is for his diabetes, per People.
In a lengthy statement on her Instagram, Teigen praised everyone who reached out “to say the most beautiful and incredible words I have ever witnessed on this platform.”
“You noticed his type-1 diabetes monitor and extended so much love and encouragement in every way possible. I was, and am, so blown away by the kindness of this community, already.”
While recognizing that “things could be so much worse” and that “so many parents around the world are going through unfathomable things that I could never imagine,” the mom-of-four said her family has been “so blessed to have so much help and a wonderful, kind, huge-hearted specialist” to lead them through this new chapter.
Tegien said Miles was hospitalized a couple weeks ago with an intestinal infection, noting that some of his friends from camp were also sick with it, when “the doctors knew something was off” in his blood tests.
“I’ve learned since then that this is how so many young children end up being diagnosed with type-1 — going to the hospital for something completely different,” she said. “After more testing, we learned he is in the ‘honeymoon period’ of a lifetime of T1. Last night we gave him his first shot on insulin and here we go! A different, new world for us and we are certainly learning so much on the fly.”
Teigen expressed gratitude for all who have shown her “kindness” during this time because it “helps miles so much to know so many other people are going through the same thing and he is not alone.”
According to the American Diabetes Association, Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease most often diagnosed in young people, though it can develop at any age. The condition causes the pancreas to make little or no insulin, a hormone that helps blood glucose, or blood sugar, to enter the body’s cells to be used as energy.
