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We’ve Been Pronouncing Chrissy Teigen’s Name Wrong This Whole Time & My Life Is A Lie

Kait Wilbur

Millions of us get our names mispronounced every day on class rosters, before interviews, in doctors’ office waiting rooms—but imagine the whole world mispronouncing your name and not even asking if they’re getting it right.

This is the waking nightmare that Chrissy Teigen has been living for years, as she revealed through a series of tweets today. I know how you read that in your head, now try again: Chrissy Tie-gen. What?

But wait, haven’t I heard her say Chrissy TEE-gen before?

But why would she do this? She’s a famous, powerful, badass lady! Why wouldn’t she redirect people to say her name correctly?

Eh, I don’t believe it. This is all a hoax. There’s no way that Chrissy Tie-gen would just live with her truth in the shadows. Besides, she’s a jokester on Twitter. I would need proof from another source, maybe someone else in her family, in order to believe it’s true.

Oh. Her mom says so? Yeah, okay. I believe it.

This entire discussion comes to light after the hosts of the Kyle and Jackie O Show discovered that Ariana Grande had been allowing the world to butcher the proper pronunciation of her last name, too.

Ariana GRANDY. Who would’ve thought?

I don’t know if the media and the world will actually change the way they pronounce either Ariana or Chrissy’s names. It’s easy to be set in our ways after a first impression. (Or first thousand.)

Let’s pledge to do our best to acknowledge the proper pronunciation of people’s names and not looking collectively like the substitute teacher from that one Key and Peele sketch.

Kait Wilbur is an aggressively optimistic individual obsessed with sitcoms, indie music, and pop culture in general. She hails from Manito, a rural wasteland in Illinois so small and devoid of life that she took up writing to amuse herself. Kait goes to Butler University to prepare for a career in advertising, but all she really wants to do is talk about TV for a living. You can find her at any given moment with her earbuds in pretending to do homework but actually looking at surrealist memes.