About
Chrissy Teigen’s Cry Face refers to the pained facial expression worn by American model Chrissy Teigen while watching her husband give an acceptance speech at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, which inspired Twitter users to post humorous captions along screencaptured image of Teigen’s face.
Origin
On January 11th, 2015, singer-songwriter John Legend and rapper Common were given the award for “Best Original Song” for the song “Glory” off the soundtrack for the 2014 historical drama film Selma. During the acceptance speech, Legend’s wife Teigen was filmed watching her husband while wearing a pained facial expression (shown below).
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Immediately after the speech, Twitter users began posting a screencaptured image of Teigen’s face, along with humorous captions about the expression (shown below).
That evening, Teigen responded to the reaction by posting a photo of her and Legend posing with crying faces (shown below, left). Within 17 hours, the post gained over 102,000 likes.