Chrissy Teigen says 'we are okay' after sharing she lost her baby with husband John Legend

On Friday evening, Chrissy Teigen shared her first update with fans since the loss of her pregnancy on September 30. The star reposted her husband John Legend's recent Twitter thread to Instagram, and added a simple caption: "We are quiet but we are okay. Love you all so much."

Legend's tweets were a dedication of his recent Billboard Music Award performance to Teigen. 

"This is for Chrissy," Legend wrote on Twitter. "I love and cherish you and our family so much. We've experienced the highest highs and lowest lows together. Watching you carry our children has been so moving and humbling."

Teigen was pregnant with their third child, and had said the pregnancy was about halfway along before she was hospitalized for excessive bleeding. She was updating her followers on Twitter and Instagram throughout the hospitalization, revealing how she needed two blood transfusions.

Then, late on September 30, Teigen and Legend shared social media posts revealing that the doctors were unable to stop the bleeding and Teigen had lost the pregnancy.

"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about," Chrissy Teigen wrote on Twitter about her miscarriage.

Many other people began sharing their own stories of pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and stillbirths following Teigen's public posts. Her Instagram update to fans on Friday evening had more than 1.7 million likes within three hours.

"Chrissy's openness helps to shed this stigma and advance conversations about the topic, and help people realize that in the vast majority of cases, there is nothing that anybody did or didn't do that could prevent this devastating event," Dr. Lilli Dash Zimmerman, a fertility specialist at Columbia University Fertility Center who wasn't involved in Teigen's care, told Insider.