įrom September 2015 until June 2016, Teigen was a food stylist and panelist on Tyra Banks's syndicated daytime talk show, FABLife. She co-hosted the 2015 Billboard Music Awards with Ludacris.
In April, she became a co-host of the musical competition series Lip Sync Battle alongside LL Cool J. In January 2015, Teigen guest starred on the sitcom The Mindy Project as the girlfriend of the man who took the main character's virginity. That same year, she appeared on the 50th anniversary cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue with Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge. In April 2014, Teigen played a fictionalized version of herself as a relationship counselor in an Inside Amy Schumer sketch. In October 2013, she appeared in Legend's music video for the song " All of Me", which also features footage from their wedding. She was also featured on another Cooking Channel special, titled Chrissy Teigen's Hungry, detailing her wedding menu tasting with then-fiancé, John Legend. Two years later, Teigen was the host of the competition series Model Employee on VH1. Teigen at the premiere of the film Battleship in Sydney in 2012 She also filmed a Cooking Channel special titled Cookies and Cocktails. The following year, she designed and debuted a capsule collection with swimwear designer DiNeila Brazil at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim in Miami as well as appeared as a featured character in the 2011 Electronic Arts video game Need For Speed: The Run. Her friend and fellow model Brooklyn Decker had introduced her to the people at Sports Illustrated to cast her. She appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2010, and was named "Rookie of the Year". Teigen was a briefcase model on the game show Deal or No Deal during the pilot and first season.
In her early modeling career, Teigen lived in Miami, Florida, "for four years, six months out of the year". During this time, she worked at a surf shop, where she landed a modeling campaign with clothing company Billabong through the shop's clients, and was discovered by a photographer. When Teigen was 15, her father relocated them to Huntington Beach, California, after her mother returned to Thailand.
After she was born, she and her family relocated to Snohomish, Washington, where her parents ran a tavern. Her surname is usually pronounced / ˈ t aɪ ɡ ə n/ despite this, she stated that she prefers the pronunciation / ˈ t iː ɡ ən/.
Her mother, Vilailuck, is from Thailand, while her father, Ron, is an American of Norwegian descent. Christine Diane Teigen was born on November 30, 1985, in Delta, Utah.