Meghan Markle is one of the hottest topics on the internet, but one of her A-list besties is here to tell everyone they have it all wrong.
Chrissy Teigen gushed to People about the Duchess of Sussex, telling them, “I really adore her. I think she is so incredibly strong.” The 39-year-old supermodel is, of course, referring to the constant chatter about the royal family member, which she finds “insane.” It’s hard for Teigen to understand how “polarizing” Meghan is “when she really is just such a kind, good person that wants the best for all her friends and the best for people around her, and the best for her own relationship and for her children.”
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Teigen made an appearance on Season 2 of her pal’s Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, and stands by her belief that the perception about the Duchess of Sussex is completely off-base.
“And people come up with all these different things that she could be about or what she wants, … [but] it’s not that complicated,” Teigen noted. “People are always going to read into what they want to read into, and they’re going to hyperfocus into what they want to believe.”
WITH LOVE, MEGHAN, (aka WITH LOVE MEGHAN), from left: host Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (aka Meghan Markle), Chrissy Teigen, (Season 2, ep. 202, aired Aug. 26, 2025).
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Meghan is apparently unbothered by the noise, but Teigen probably understands the heat of a controversy. In 2021, she faced criticism for bullying reality show personality Courtney Stodden via a tweet and private messages. Teigen apologized four years ago in a public statement, “I hope you can heal now knowing how deeply sorry I am.”
Stodden spoke up in August about Meghan having Teigen guest star on her show. “I posted about this, and I saw Chrissy Teigen was on my Instagram watching my Story, so I decided to reach out to Chrissy on DM and tell her that I’m here if she needs to talk and I do not believe people should be bullying her and she shouldn’t be listening to anyone who’s bullying her,” she said on Instagram on Aug. 15, per the Daily Mail.
The women did not hash it out as Stodden claimed that Teigen “completely ignored me.” So, for now, Teigen still has a simmering feud with Stodden, and it’s probably why she understands Meghan’s experiences as a controversial public figure.
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