Chrissy Teigen revealed in a somber announcement on Wednesday that her father, Ronald Leroy Teigen had died at 73.
The 40-year-old model shared her heartbreaking news in an Instagram post featuring a humorous video of her late father, who died just days shy of his 74th birthday on Friday.
Her father, who went by Ron, shared her with Vilailuck ‘Pepper’ Chaiudom, but the couple divorced in 2019.
‘Yesterday I woke up with a daddy and went to bed without one,’ she began her post. ‘All the same things happened. Hurried shower. Picked up stuffing from the dog toys. Answered some emails. Avoided some. Laughed with my friends and put on a pretty dress for a friend’s birthday. Took a video. How cute is this dress!
‘And then my dad just like . . . f***ing died,’ Teigen wrote.
I thought that since we talk about it and I’ve come to terms with him always having been an “old dad” that I wouldn’t have fallen to the ground the way I did. I’ve thought about this phone call for years. I’ll be ready,’ she continued.
Chrissy Teigen revealed in a somber announcement on Wednesday that her father, Ronald Leroy Teigen had died at 73, just days before his birthday on Friday; the two are pictured together in 2015
She shared her sad news with a humorous video of Ron talking from happier times (pictured)
Teigen wrote about how ‘grateful’ she was to have been able to tell her father how much he meant to her before his death.
‘A couple months ago I was able to go away for a week. I wrote my dad a letter about how grateful I was for him. About how hard he worked for us growing up and how much I love him,’ she wrote. ‘I am forever grateful for the moment I handed him the letter, and all our years before.’
After baring her grief, she took a lighter approach as she described what made her dad so special to her.
‘If you didn’t know my dad, my dad hated nearly everything in the world that wasn’t a bass guitar, swing dancing, wood carving, animals, YouTube, or his family,’ she joked. ‘I have hundreds and hundreds of videos of him just being mad at things he isn’t even doing, watching, or eating. They make me so happy now.’
‘God I love you so much. I will talk to you every night. Thank you for being such a great dad,’ Teigen concluded on a tender note. ‘Until we complain again 🤍🤍🤍.’
She appended a comment to her post to explain her accompanying clip: ‘The video is my dad talking about raising me in the Pacific Northwest. He really loved it but boy did he hate salmon.’
In the video, Ron shared his opinion on the popular fish while reminiscing after dinner.
‘Salmon this, salmon that. I got so much salmon, I’ll never touch another salmon for the rest of my life,’ he said to laughter from those around him.
Her father, who went by Ron, shared her with Vilailuck ‘Pepper’ Chaiudom, but the couple divorced in 2019; the exes are pictured together before their separation
‘Yesterday I woke up with a daddy and went to bed without one,’ Teigen wrote, before describing a standard day. ‘All the same things happened . . . And then my dad just like . . . f***ing died’; Ron is pictured with Chrissy and her daughter Luna
