Chrissy Teigen celebrated her 38th birthday in style, with one surprising element. Detailing her birthday celebrations on Instagram, the entrepreneur revealed that she saw her son Jack, who she lost at 20 weeks in 2020.
Chrissy said that she spent part of the day in ketamine therapy, which allowed her to see the baby boy she never really got to know. She didn’t go into much detail about the experience, but she did mention that it made her cry. Since she and husband John Legend lost their son, she has spoken various times about the loss.
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Chrissy celebrated turning 38 with hubby John Legend and friends.
"I had a really nice birthday," she wrote in the caption of her post. "Went to to see my friends @flamingo_estate, had a beautiful lunch with friends, then did ketamine therapy and saw space and time and baby jack and some weird penguins and cried and cried and cried. Then laid with my babies, then hot pot, then hung with my best friend."
Ketamine therapy has become more common recently.
According to the Pacific Neuroscience Institute, ketamine therapy consists of using low doses of the "dissociative anesthetic medication, to manage various mental health conditions." It can be used to help treat a variety of mental health conditions, from treatment-resistant depression and anxiety disorders to post-traumatic stress disorder. Typically, it is administered via IV infusions, but it can also be done in an intranasal spray.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration says that ketamine "has some hallucinogenic effects," which can include distorted "perceptions of sight and sound."
Chrissy and her family suffered an unimaginable loss with Jack.
Chrissy detailed her pregnancy loss in an Instagram post in October 2020. She was hospitalized for bleeding during her pregnancy and had to receive blood transfusions.
"We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough," she wrote in the post, sharing an image of herself crying in a hospital bed.
"To our Jack – I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive. We will always love you."
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Last year, Chrissy shed more light on what happened at the end of the pregnancy.
In 2022, Chrissy opened up more about losing Jack, explaining that she did not have a miscarriage, but rather a "life-saving" abortion.
"Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions," she explained during an appearance at Propper Daley’s "A Day of Unreasonable Conversation" summit. "It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention."
She took the opportunity to reflect on what happened to her.
"Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion," she clarified. "An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago."
She went on to add, "I told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage. And I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion."
In the past year, Chrissy has welcomed two more children via surrogate — Esti, who was born in January 2023, and Wren, who was born in June.
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