Chrissy Teigen delivered Hollywood style to the 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night in Washington, D.C.
The cookbook author and mother of three walked the red carpet at the prestigious event, which was held at the Washington Hilton, in a flowing lilac gown with a dazzling corset waistline, plunging neckline, and high-slit skirt.
Teigen, 37, smiled broadly for photographers as she posed alone and with husband John Legend by her side. She accessorised her ensemble with silver shoes, glittering drop earrings, and diamond rings. Teigen was also wearing a silver handbag.
Legend, on the other hand, kept it simple in a solid black tux, white shirt, black shoes, and bow tie. As the two stood on the carpet together, the 44-year-old EGOT winner put his arm around Teigen. He and Teigen were both NBC News guests.
Teigen's night out comes after a week of being sick, which she contracted on a Disney vacation with Legend and their children: Esti Maxine, 3 months, Luna Simone, 6, and Miles Theodore, 4.
On April 21, she tweeted that "leaving a Disney cruise is like leaving Las Vegas except you only feel like you binged drugs and you are wet."
"I've never been sore, I'm coughing... "Something, the bottoms of my feet are rotisserie roasted, I just got phone service, and we're still rocking," she explained. "4 days ago seems like long ago. Our children must never forget what we did for them. "I stand in solidarity with all the other Disney cruise parents."
Throughout the week, the model posted health updates on social media. "I am still... madly sick from this f---ing cruise," she said in a selfie video she posted days later while lying down.
"I never get sick," she grumbled before deadpanning, "but I love germs." "A present that keeps on giving."
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She posted a new Instagram Story a few hours later. "I have to eat," she continued, "because my medicine is making me throw up because I don't have anything in my stomach," yet if she eats, she becomes sick. I despise eating when I am not hungry."
Teigen appeared to be in better health by Thursday.
"I don't think I've ever felt so full-body sick," she captioned a photo of herself on the couch with Esti in a post. "This week kicked my ass, but I am onnn the mend!!"
Meanwhile, this is only the second in-person White House Correspondents' Dinner in recent years, after the events in 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual correspondents' dinner dates back to 1921 and has always been attended by association members as well as high-ranking government officials such as the president and first lady. The evening is intended to roast both politicians and members of the media equally.
That tradition, however, was broken under former President Donald Trump.
The twice-impeached politician shunned the gathering during his first three years in office, saying reporters in 2019 that it was "too negative."
After Michelle Wolf's turn as emcee in 2018, his White House began to avoid the event as well. She, like previous comedians, mocked various D.C. players, including former Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
This year's host will be Roy Wood, Jr., of The Daily Show fame. "It's an honour to be a part of a long-running tradition of honouring those members of the media who work so hard to uncover the truth and hold our government accountable," he said in a statement announcing his hire in February. "Depending on which state you live in, it will be a great night that will go down in history books, or not."
In an interview with NPR prior to the event, the comic expressed both anxiety and excitement about the occasion.
"It's similar to Bruce Willis in Armageddon." 'Hey, the asteroid's coming,' they say. We need your help to... preserve the planet. But with a sense of humour. Also, you might die, but... you have a chance to go up there and say some things that matter to people who aren't normally talked to,'" he told the outlet. "You can't say no to something like that."
