With a majorly popular (and sometimes controversial) twitter presence, Sports Illustrated model Chrissy Teigen is having a moment. Cosmopolitain booked her for a three-cover June 2014 issue following her SI Swim cover, and now she’s booked the XOXO campaign.<\/p>\n
WWD chatted with Teigen on set for XOXO\u2019s fall ad campaign.<\/p>\n
Here are our highlights:<\/p>\n
Over the years, Teigen has done campaigns for such brands as Billabong and Rock & Republic, but her big break came when she started modeling swimsuits for SI. Teigen became an SI swimsuit model when Brooklyn Decker and Andy Roddick came backstage at one of Legend\u2019s shows to say hello. \u201cThey knocked on the door of the trailer and I immediately connected with Brooklyn, and John connected with Andy, and we decided we had to double date,\u201d she said. A few weeks later, someone e-mailed her from SI and said Decker referred her. At the time, Teigen was with a smaller agency doing \u201ccatalogue-type stuff where you wouldn\u2019t even see my face. To get Sports Illustrated after that kind of stuff is pretty crazy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Asked if she considers herself a role model for young women, Teigen said she believes she is. \u201cBeing in Sports Illustrated and a swimsuit model, it\u2019s interesting because people assume that men love you and want to look at you and ogle you, but I\u2019ve always had a strong female fan base and I\u2019ve always really loved my girls. I\u2019ve always felt like the oddball with the sexy models, because I never have thought of myself as sexy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Teigen said she met Legend on a video shoot. \u201cIt was my one and only video. I was one of the only ones who would do it for free. He was in a suit and I was in lingerie. When you\u2019re from meeting like that, it\u2019s bound to happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But one place you\u2019ll probably never find her is on the runway. \u201cI wish. It would be kind of hysterical. I think I\u2019m a little too short. I\u2019m 5-8. That\u2019s my excuse for never getting called for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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