Cookbook author Alison Roman appeared to throw shade at Chrissy Teigen during a recent interview.
While speaking of Teigen’s Cravings success and growing it into an empire, Roman noted, “What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me.”
“She had a successful cookbook,” she said to The Consumer Report. “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.”
Roman also called Marie Kondo a “b**ch” whom she said, “decided to capitalize on her fame.”
After facing backlash for her comments, Roman tweeted:
Just wishing I had someone to hold my hand during baby’s first internet backlash
— alison roman (@alisoneroman) May 8, 2020
Roman did eventually try to explain herself:
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But most of the internet had already made their minds up.
After reading the article, Teigen, who typically has witty comebacks, admitted how hard Roman’s comments hit her. “It has been crappy to deal with this all day but I couldn’t not say something,” she said in one of many tweets.
Teigen explained that she has “supported” Roman on social media, “praised her in interviews,” and “even signed on to executive produce the very show she talks about.”
Teigen then addressed Roman’s comments about Cravings.
“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,” she continued. “This ‘farm’ you think of doesn’t exist. I am the farm. I am the cows the horses the pigs.”
Teigen ended her comments by suggesting she and Roman “unfollow each other.”
Roman then offered Teigen an apology, saying she’s “genuinely sorry I caused you pain with what I said… I was flippant, careless and I’m so sorry.”
The drama resulted in fans, for both Teigen and Roman, getting nasty online. So much so that the Queen of Twitter herself has decided to “take a break.”
“I really hate what this drama has caused this week. 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,” Teigen wrote on Mother’s Day. “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.”
Teigen also blocked her account to the public right after posting her last message.
Roman took the weekend to think things over and issued a public apology to both Teigen and Kondo.
In a very lengthy letter, Roman said she does “not have an excuse” for the things she said about the two ladies. Roman continued to explain that she had been doing a lot of thinking on “why” she said those things and will try and work on herself.
Roman added it was “no one’s obligation” to accept her apology but Teigen made a return to Twitter to do just that.
“Thank u for this, @alisoneroman. To be clear, it never once crossed my mind for u to apologize for what you genuinely thought! The comments stung, but they moreso stung because they came from u! It wasn’t my usual news break of some random person hating everything about me,” Teigen wrote.
