Chrissy Teigen Opens Up About Racist Experience
The supermodel is of Norwegian and Thai descent.
— -- Supermodel Chrissy Teigen tweeted about a recent racist experience she had in West Hollywood.
"I dropped my sunglasses this AM on Santa Monica blvd and this seemingly normal looking dude screamed "f------ c----- always dropping s---," she posted on Thursday.
Teigen, 29, who is known as much for her humorous personality as she is for her good looks, responded in kind on Twitter.
"Like that's not even a stereotype. get your s--- together. What a bad racist," she added. "We were the only ones on the block and he screamed it from 5 feet away. Then when I acknowledged it he said 'oh now the oriental can hear.'"
She closed with, "Anyhoo, that was my morning! If you see a guy in weho wearing a brown suit jacket and jeans, probably avoid eye contact."
Mindy Kaling couldn't help but say something about the encounter.
"WHAT?! That's an insanely hilarious new racism I've never heard of before. Congrats, sociologically," she wrote.