CHRISSY TEIGEN ON HER ISON'S DIABETES 'JOURNEY Miles Is a Warrior

NEARLY A YEAR AFTER HER 6-YEAR-OLD SON WAS DIAGNOSED WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES, THE CRAVINGS FOUNDER OPENS UP ABOUT TACKLING THE CHRONIC DISEASE AS A FAMILY

- MELODY CHIU

As a mom of four, Chrissy Teigen thrives on being a planner. “If they have football season coming up, I’ve got to get that gear. If Luna has a recital, I’ve got to get that costume going,” the entrepreneur says of raising her oldest daughter, 9, and siblings Miles, 6, Esti, 2, and Wren, 22 months. “There’s no other way to go about this life.”

Still, Teigen, 39, learned in the toughest of ways last summer that there are some things she and her husband, John Legend, 46, simply can’t plan for. In July 2024 the superstar couple revealed that Miles had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes—a chronic condition in which the pancreas makes little to no insulin—after a “terrible” case of shigella landed him in the hospital during football camp. “It really took Miles down harder than a lot of the other kids,” she recalls of the common bacterial infection that affects the digestive system. “His pain was incredible, and he’s a pretty tough little boy.” After three full days of “blood test after blood test” at Cedars-Sinai hospital, doctors confirmed Miles—who had previously shown no symptoms—was facing type 1. “We were thrown into this world of chaos and having to learn so much all at once,” says Teigen of grappling with her son’s autoimmune disease, which can lead to life-threatening complications affecting the heart, blood vessels, nerves and kidneys if left untreated.