Chrissy Teigen has lengthy been an energetic social media consumer, however that doesn’t imply she’s precisely excited for the day her children get their very own accounts.
The cookbook creator mentioned her ideas about parenting, display screen time and social media throughout an look at a “digital parenthood” occasion hosted by on-line safety firm Aura on Tuesday.
“I know I absolutely want to delay social media,” Teigen mentioned throughout a sit-down dialog on the occasion with DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, in accordance with Fortune.
Teigen mentioned that she hopes her youngsters — daughters Luna, 8, and Esti, 1 and sons Miles, 6, and Wren, 11 months — will maintain off on creating social media accounts till they full highschool.
“That would be my absolute dream,” she mentioned.
Elsewhere within the dialog, the mannequin acknowledged that she usually posts about her children and her husband, singer John Legend, on her personal social media accounts.
“I do share them a lot — I’m the first person to say it — because in so much of my life I feel that people don’t understand me,” she mentioned. “But being a mom is where a lot of people understand me. And that communication with other parents is so important to me that it overrides almost anything else.”
Teigen has been within the middle of social media scandals on a number of events. In 2021, she apologized for her previous merciless on-line conduct towards Courtney Stodden, then a teenage actuality TV character, over a decade in the past.
In an Instagram put up shared final month, she wrote about experiencing “dark” instances in her lifetime, and at the moment dwelling her life “so scared.”
“I feel like a very shrunken version of myself,” she wrote. “And I know I am meant to be big. I’m really scared of letting you guys down and I find myself fighting with myself all day in my brain with things I want to say, things I want to explain, but I’m just so fearful.”
“I miss so many parts of myself and I hope one day I can shed some fear and accept that I will never be perfect for you guys and that is okay!!” she continued, referring to her 42 million Instagram followers.
