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Chrissy Teigen<\/a> has a friend in Meghan Markle.\n<\/p>\n Speaking exclusively with PEOPLE about her advocacy for type 1 diabetes screening at Hello Sunshine<\/a>‘s Shine Away event<\/a> on Saturday, Oct. 11, the 39-year-old model recalled making an appearance on season 2 of the Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix series, With Love, Meghan<\/a>, and their friendship since.\n<\/p>\n “I adore her,” Teigen said of Meghan, 44. “I really adore her. I think she is so incredibly strong.”\n<\/p>\n “It is insane to me how polarizing she is for so many different people, 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,” she added.\n<\/p>\n Meghan Markle (left) and Chrissy Teigen (right) on ‘With Love, Meghan.’.<\/p>\n Jake Rosenberg\/Netflix<\/p>\n Teigen told PEOPLE that none of Meghan’s “polarizing” actions have been made for public perception. According to her, the Duchess of Sussex just “[lives] simply.”\n<\/p>\n “She just wants those things,” Teigen explained. “And people come up with all these different things that she could be about or what she wants, … [but] it’s not that complicated.”\n<\/p>\n “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,” she added.<\/p>\n Teigen \u2014 who appeared at the event as a spokesperson for Sanofi\u2019s\u00a0Screen For Type 1<\/a> movement, which encourages people to talk to their doctors about the importance of type 1 diabetes screening \u2014 also acknowledged that no matter what, “People are just going to come up with their own story.”\n<\/p>\n “I think it’s cool that [Meghan] is just like, ‘Listen, say whatever you want. I’m happy and I’m healthy and I feel good,’ ” she continued.\n<\/p>\n When asked if she and her husband\u00a0John Legend<\/a>\u00a0organize play dates for their kids \u2014 daughters Luna, 9, and Esti, 2, plus sons Miles, 7, and Wren, 2 \u2014 with Meghan and\u00a0Prince Harry<\/a>‘s two children, Prince Archie<\/a>, 6, and\u00a0Princess Lilibet<\/a>, 4, Teigen joked that while it would be a fun get-together, she doesn’t “leave the house.”\n<\/p>\n “I’m not joking,” she added to PEOPLE with a laugh. “I don’t go anywhere. I try to do every photo shoot, every everything at our house. So no. But if the time came up, absolutely.”\n<\/p>\n Chrissy Teigen and John Legend with their four children.<\/p>\n Chrissy Teigen\/Instagram<\/p>\n Teigen’s advocacy for diabetes care and early screening comes after son Miles’ diagnosis with the disease<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n “We’re so lucky to have had Sanofi engage us in being able to talk about early detection and early screening for T1D, because it itself created a community \u2014 where we felt like we had people that genuinely cared about the questions that we had,” the mom of four told PEOPLE. “And we had a lot of them.”\n<\/p>\n