Chrissy Teigen admits she’s cut back on alcohol in an attempt to ‘fix’ herself

Candid: Chrissy Teigen has said that she needs to cut back on alcohol: Rachel Murray/Getty Images for WGN America
Candid: Chrissy Teigen has said that she needs to cut back on alcohol: Rachel Murray/Getty Images for WGN America

Chrissy Teigen has revealed that she’s cutting back on alcohol as she “drinks too much” and wants to “fix” herself.

The model and author said she struggles to have “just one drink” at awards ceremonies and parties and doesn’t like the way she behaves as it’s “not a good look.”

Speaking candidly in a new interview with Cosmopolitan, the mother-of-one, who is married to John Legend, said that she is in the process of scaling back her alcohol intake.

“I was, point blank, just drinking too much,” she said. “I got used to being in hair and makeup and having a glass of wine.

“Then that glass of wine would carry over into me having one before the awards show. And then a bunch at the awards show.

“And then I felt bad for making kind of an a** of myself to people that I really respected. And that feeling, there’s just nothing like that. You feel horrible. It’s not a good look for me, for John, for anybody.”

Teigen said that she “felt in her heart” that it “wasn’t right”, despite the fact that no one brought it up to her.

“Nobody really brought it up to me. They just assumed that it was OK because I always felt OK the next morning. I knew in my heart it wasn’t right. It makes you very short with people,” she said.

Teigen said that a wellness retreat to Bali earlier this year changed her whole outlook on drinking .

“I used to think it was kind of nutty to have to go totally sober,” she said. “But now I get it. I don’t want to be that person… I have to fix myself.

The couple are set to try IVF again later this year, after struggling to conceive daughter Luna two years ago.

'A lot of stuff's about to come,” she said. “We're going to try to have a child. This is for us to try to get in the zone of 'let's travel, let's be away together, let's see our closest friends,' and then we're going to have to do something super hard, which is the IVF process, all over again.”