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18 months after losing baby Jack, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are “trying” again.

This post deals with miscarriage and might be triggering for some readers. 

It's been 18 months since Chrissy Teigen lost her baby, Jack. 

The 35-year-old, who has two children with musician John Legend, was 20 weeks into her pregnancy when she miscarried and shared the heartbreaking news with her followers.

In February 2022, Teigen suggested that the couple are still hoping to add to their family of four.

On her Instagram Story, the model uploaded a photo of various needles and vials.

"Here we go again," she captioned the post, alongside an animated image of an egg and a frustrated uterus.

Image: Instagram/@chrissyteigen 

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In an Instagram post the following day, Teigen confirmed she is going through another round of IVF.

"I wanted to let you guys know I’m balls deep in another IVF cycle to save as many eggos as I possibly can and hopefully make some strong, healthy embryos," she wrote.

"I honestly don’t mind the shots... they make me feel like a doctor/chemist... but the bloating is a b*tch."

Teigen also begged her followers to stop asking if she's pregnant, because while it's said with good intentions, "It just kind of sucks to hear because I am the opposite of pregnant!" 

She also told them to stop asking anyone if they are pregnant.

"I’d rather be the one to tell you and not some poor woman who will look you in the eyes through tears and that’s how you finally learn. Anyhow, Iove youuuuu??"

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In a recent interview with PeopleLegend revealed their two children are aware their family is "trying" for another baby.

"They know we are trying, and they are excited," he explained before going on to say the journey of fertility "is not easy".

"There are a lot of women and families that have fertility struggles, and I think no one should feel ashamed of needing some help sometimes," he said. 

"And I think Chrissy's done a good job of de-stigmatising some of these things that so many people go through in silence."

Legend voiced that those struggling with fertility should not have to "suffer in silence".

"Whether it's IVF, or other fertility struggles, whether it's losing a pregnancy, I think both of us have felt like it's good for us to share this with other people because other people are going through it too, we don't think they should suffer in silence without knowing there are other people out there who are feeling the same thing," the 'All Of Me' singer explained.

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In September 2021, Teigen posted an emotional tribute to her baby Jack on Instagram, in honour of National Son Day in the US. 

Sharing a candid photo of herself crying in a hospital bed with her husband, Teigen wrote that while her son taught her she could "survive anything", the pain hasn't gone away. 

"To the son we almost had. A year ago you gave me the greatest pain I could ever imagine to show me I could survive anything, even if I didn’t want to," she began the post. 

"I didn’t get to take care of you but you came and went to get me to love myself and take care of myself because our bodies are precious and life is a miracle. They told me it would get easier but yeah, that hasn’t started yet," she continued.

"Mum and dad love you forever."

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The couple previously shared that they lost their son Jack in an Instagram post in October 2020.

"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before," Teigen wrote on Instagram at the time, alongside a black-and-white photo from the hospital room.

"We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough.

"Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever."

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Minutes after sharing the news, Teigen tweeted that she was on her way home from the hospital. 

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Legend also posted to Twitter, saying: "We love you, Jack".

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At the time, Teigen, who has endometriosis, was taken to hospital due to excessive bleeding.

"I was always, always bleeding... The blood has been going on for a little less than a month. More than your period, definitely not spotting," Teigen explained on her Instagram Stories at the time. 

After losing Jack, the 35-year-old shared that she's sad she will "never" be pregnant again. 

"I love being pregnant, so so much, and I’m sad I never will be again. But I am lucky to have two amazing little ones who are transforming into big little people more and more every single day," she wrote on Instagram in December. 

It's something that has, understandably, been hard for her to accept. 

"Coming to terms with not being able to carry again is still really difficult for me because I feel so healthy," she told People.

"I'm like, why? But then I think about it as my uterus is just not cooperating with me — and it's not a failure."

But despite the loss, she said she's "so lucky" to have her children, Luna and Miles, and can't imagine a "life without more" kids. 

"I just think of it in terms of how blessed I am already, and also there are so many ways to have a child nowadays... whether it's surrogacy or adoption."

The couple have chosen to remember Jack by planting a special tree inside their house.

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"It's important for us in Thai tradition that we always embrace the ones we've lost, and they're never, ever gone. This tree being planted inside the home, the whole reason why I wanted it was so Jack's ashes could be in that soil and he could be with us all the time and grow through the beautiful leaves in this tree," she told People. 

"The way Miles and Luna talk about him is so beautiful and reminds me of when I was little talking to my grandpa who was just sitting bedside next to my mom in a little urn," she added

"It's all beautiful, and I love that tradition carries down."

This article was published on February 2, 2022 and was updated on March 27, 2022.

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Feature Image: Instagram/@chrissyteigen/Mamamia. 

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