I was being abused. Stodden revealed multiple tweets Teigen sent to them at the beginning of the s. The story began to spread. The Cut had an overview of the story, and so did Vulture and Slate. USA Today had an op-ed about it. What happened between Teigen and Stodden was all over the internet. I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel.
On June 14, Teigen published a post on Medium once again apologizing for her past tweets. Chrissy Teigen may still be pretty canceled. And her cancellation is notable not only because she used to be so beloved, but because it points to a major cultural shift that seems to have occurred within the very period in which Teigen got famous. Teigen became popular in the first place because she was really good at Twitter in the early s. What it means to be good at Twitter now is very different from what it meant to be good at Twitter then — and if we unpack those changes, we can see just how drastically the culture has shifted in a single tumultuous decade.
Like, straight-up funny. Even in real life. What are the chances! Teigen appeared to fit the Cool Girl bill, and the profiles practically wrote themselves. Teigen has real food cred. She launched a food blog in , discussed her firm food opinions frequently on social media, and would go on to publish two bestselling cookbooks. The appeal of that contrast only increased as it became clear that Teigen was also funny, and that her sense of humor was not publicist-approved.
She loves to talk. And she loves to eat. Law-patented way. But not really a regret that I thought it, just that I said it. Such admissions were part of what made Teigen seem real, and gave her a bit of an edge. Plus, Teigen would candidly admit that being unfiltered on social media sometimes did really hurt her.
And I remember sobbing so much because it was just the worst feeling, letting people down. I definitely lost work because people would shy away from being associated [with me], and I totally get it, too—they have to appeal to everybody.
Teigen insisted that she always simply refused to listen to those who told her to tone it down. Part of what people were getting with Teigen was a refreshing transparency. In , she wrote an essay for Glamour about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Luna.
He was everything. She still looks years older than she actually is although she seems younger in person than she does on television or in photos. Her laugh is still pitchy but bashful. Her makeup cracks when she smiles, which is often.
She still resembles a life-size Barbie, with big hair and bigger boobs. Stodden has chosen this moment to not only embrace feminism but fashion herself into a kind of feminist figure, too. Uh, so does the other one. Stodden recently moved in with her boyfriend, Chris Sheng, who at 39 is still much older than her, and is, like Stodden, also currently going through his own divorce.
Which is awkward, but acceptable, for Sheng. I ask him to do so instead. Stodden tells me that what she really wants right now is to be alone. When they first started going out, he fabricated his net worth and burned through his life savings while taking her and her friends out in LA. Sheng meekly rubs his hands together. She does the things the way she wants to do them.
She frets about both consensual sexual attention she gets from men and the impact of her assaults, often in the same breath. I guess because I feel I invited it in. That struggle — swinging, mentally, between feeling like prey, or like predator — is fraying her. When she talks about Sheng, for instance, she oscillates between love and pity. Yet she frets about him constantly, how he lost his family and career because of their union. She and her male producer talk about the vibe for her new songs mostly having fun and being fun , and I watch as Stodden shifts from the sad, thoughtful version of herself she presented to me earlier to a flippant, self-effacing alter ego: stupid, silly, funny, sexy.
The change is jarring. Now, her giggling is constant and her voice becomes more childlike. She shakes her breasts and her eyes dim a little, as she squints through her thick brush of false lashes. This version of her reminds me of the story about Norma Jeane becoming Marilyn with that red sweater. Contact Scaachi Koul at scaachi. Got a confidential tip? Submit it here. A BuzzFeed News investigation, in partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, based on thousands of documents the government didn't want you to see.
Courtesy Keller Family. Courtesy Krista Keller. In addition to having Courtney Whitmore and her stepfather Pat Dugan seriously discuss letting Courtney's mother in on their heroic double-life, the episode also revealed that the supervillain Shiv was able to deduce that Courtney was Stargirl.
The secret identity has long been a standard trope of comic books and the movies and television shows centered around superheroes. The logic is that vigilantes need to hide their true identity, lest some villain figure out who they are when they aren't fighting crime and threaten their families. The reality is this rarely works well for the heroes and their loved ones inevitably wind up endangered anyway.
More often than not the secret identity is instead used as a cheap source of drama, introducing complications so the hero has one more problem to deal with apart from fighting a supervillain. When Courtney woke up in the hospital later, Pat told her about the drastic steps he had taken to hide her identity from the world at large and admitted that Courtney was right to call him out on his hypocrisy about hiding his life as a superhero from his wife while simultaneously discouraging Courtney from pursuing a life as a superhero and enlisting her classmates for a new Justice Society of America.
This leads them to discuss letting Courtney's mother in on their secret, though they ultimately disagree on how soon they should do so. Later, "Shiv Part Two" parted ways with the usual cliches once again, revealing that Shiv had figured out that Courtney Whitmore was Stargirl.
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