Chrissy Teigen announces death of father Ron Teigen Sr

Model and author Chrissy Teigen announced the death of her father, Ron Teigen Sr., on Wednesday, June 10, 2026. He was 73 years old and died just days before his 74th birthday. Teigen shared the news in an emotional Instagram post, describing the loss as sudden and unexpected.

In her post, Teigen wrote that her father died on Tuesday, June 9. She recounted the jarring contrast of a normal day turning to grief, writing, "Yesterday I woke up with a daddy and went to bed without one." She described completing mundane tasks before receiving the news, which caused her to fall to the ground despite having mentally prepared for the possibility due to his age. "I thought that since we talk about it and I've come to terms with him always having been an old dad that I wouldn't have fallen to the ground the way I did," she wrote.

Teigen expressed gratitude for a letter she had written to her father a few months earlier, thanking him for his hard work and expressing her love. She described her father's character with affectionate humor, noting he "hated nearly everything in the world that wasn't a bass guitar, swing dancing, wood carving, animals, YouTube, or his family." She shared a video...