In July of last year, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s eldest son Miles, was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Upon the almost year anniversary of Miles’ diagnoses, the Cravings cookbook author is giving an update on their family journey with the disease. 

“Everything was put on pause,” Teigen reminisces about the time during her son’s initial diagnoses in an exclusive interview with People Magazine. “We were finding ourselves going in and out of hospitals, sitting down with our notebooks taking copious notes and taking videos of everything someone was doing with the insulin jar.”

She continued stating that at the time, her son was asking, “‘Why me? How come not Luna?’ He was really worried that it would affect if he could play sports. Can I have candy still? Can I have ice cream? All those things that only a kid would worry about.”

One of the most difficult things for Teigen to become accustomed to in terms of caring for her son was administering daily insulin injections.

“You try everything: tokens, bribery, iPad time. You do everything you can to see what makes him comfortable,” she said. “The first three months were really, really tough for us as a family because your child is experiencing pain.”

A year later, the former Sports Illustrated model, admits that there are still ups and downs to navigating this new reality with her son and family.

“One day you’re like, ‘He did it!’ And you’re so excited it’s all looking up. Then all of a sudden the next day is so difficult again,” she said. “I’ve always said this about having kids in general, and it fits in with this too: When things are going so great, you can always count on it to turn. And when things are really rough, things are going to get better. Our family’s really good about navigating those curve balls now.”

In addition to Miles, Teigen also shares three additional children with her husband, EGOT-winner John Legend. Teigen’s other children include, Luna, 9, Esti, 2, Wren, 22 months.

To read the full exclusive interview in its entirety, click here.

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