Chrissy Teigen revealed in a somber announcement on Wednesday that her father, Ronald Leroy Teigen, had died at 73.
The 40-year-old model shared her heartbreaking news in an Instagram post featuring a humorous video of her late father, who died just days shy of his 74th birthday on Friday.
Her father, who went by Ron, shared her with Vilailuck ‘Pepper’ Chaiudom, but the couple divorced in 2019.
‘Yesterday I woke up with a daddy and went to bed without one,’ she began her post. ‘All the same things happened. Hurried shower. Picked up stuffing from the dog toys. Answered some emails. Avoided some. Laughed
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