Chrissy Teigen Takes Break From Social Media After Criticism From Alison Roman: “I Guess We Should Probably Unfollow Each Other”

Model Chrissy Teigen set her Twitter account to private and says she’ll be taking a break from social media following drama with food writer and cook Alison Roman.

For the past few days, Teigen has been fighting off internet trolls that began taunting her after fellow foodie and chef, Roman, made some critical remarks about Teigen’s cooking empire. “I really hate what this drama has caused this week,” said the 34-year-old on Sunday. “Calling my kids Petri dish babies or making up flight manifests with my name on them to ‘Epstein island,’ to justify someone else’s disdain with me seems gross to me, so I’m gonna take a little break.” She added, “This is what always happens. The first day, a ton of support, then the next, 1 million reasons as to why you deserved this. It never fails.”

Three days prior to Teigen’s social media departure announcement, Roman expressed that Teigen’s rise in success “horrifies her.” During an interview with The New Consumer, Roman detailed her feelings about Teigen’s growth as a businesswoman.

“What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me. She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me, and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that,” said Roman last Thursday. Roman did acknowledge the amount of money Teigen has made from the success of her business ventures. “Who’s laughing now? Because she’s making a ton of f–king money.”

When Teigen heard about Roman’s comments, she took to Twitter to share her disappointment in Roman. “This is a huge bummer and hit me hard,” she said. “I have made her recipes for years now, bought the cookbooks, supported her on social and praised her in interviews. I don’t think I’ve ever been so bummed out by the words of a fellow food-lover. I just had no idea I was perceived that way, by her especially.”

Teigen added that she thinks it’s unfair that someone could try to “completely invalidate” her work. “There are many days I cry very hard because cravings, the site, is our baby we love to pump content onto. We do this work ourselves, and there is NO monetary gain yet. It is just work work work, and the reward is you liking it. so to be called a sellout….hooooo it hurts.” Using Roman’s words, Teigen explained that she is the machine behind the product. “This ‘farm’ you think of doesn’t exist. I am the farm. I am the cows, the horses, the pigs. Anyhow. now that that’s out there, I guess we should probably unfollow each other alisoneroman.”

Roman ended up apologizing for her remarks, calling them “flippant” and “careless.”