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It takes a lot to dampen the Christmas spirit at the Teigen-Legend household. Chrissy Teigen has been going all in on giving her children fun holiday activities to do, but even the best laid plans of mice and men and multi-hyphenate moms often go awry. And for the Cravings founder, that means a (literally) sweet idea turned into a cosmetic dentistry disaster.
Teigen posted a reel to Instagram on Sunday showing her adorable kiddos “growing” candy canes, in which they “plant” peppermint seeds in crushed Oreo “soil,” and they magically grow increasingly large candy canes over the course of a few days. But something backfired as Teigen prepared the extra-large candy canes for their big reveal.
Somehow—it's not entirely clear—as she was opening the candy cane package, “My tooth fell off," she laughs, indecisively covering her mouth to hide the nub that's left of her natural tooth. “It's a veneer. I have the whole piece,” she says. “I was trying to create magic. Now I have no tooth.”
If anyone can handle this situation with humor, it's Teigen, who goes to her son's holiday recital the next day with a wonky smile—and a face mask to occasionally cover it. She then ends the reel with a casual photo shoot montage set to Bruno Mars's “Just the Way You Are.”
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Thankfully, she didn't have to wait long to get the veneer replaced. She shared a video of herself in the dentist's chair on her Instagram stories to announce, “We are back in business, shout out to the tooth goat,” tagging Dr. Laurence Rifkin.
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But as happy as she is about the replacement veneer, she also reminisced about the brief but glorious day she spent without it, posting a selfie with her eldest daughter and writing, “Was cool to say hi to my old tooth for a while hiiii old tooth!”
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If she was trying to make holiday memories, she definitely succeeded—just with a little unexpected dental magic on top of the Christmas joy.
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