Chrissy Teigen is a New York Times #1 bestselling author, TV personality and the founder of Cravings. In 2019 Teigen was included on TIME Magazine’s prestigious annual list of the “100 Most Influential People” as well as The Hollywood Reporter’s "20 Most Powerful Players in Food Media." In 2016, Teigen released Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat which debuted #1 on The New York Times Bestseller list and marked the first time a cookbook debuted #1 on USA Today's bestseller list. In 2018 she released her highly anticipated second cookbook, Cravings: Hungry for More, in addition to launching her kitchen and tabletop collection, Cravings by Chrissy Teigen. Her website, CravingsbyChrissyTeigen.com launched in November 2019. Her third cookbook, Cravings: All Together was released in October 2021 and debuted at #2 on The New York Times Bestseller List.
In Spring 2019, Teigen signed a multi-year first-look deal with Hulu to produce projects via her production company Huntley Productions. In addition, Teigen has partnered with David Chang and Vox to produce a slate of food programming for Hulu. Their first series as part of this partnership, Chrissy & Dave Dine Out will debut linearly on Freeform on Wednesday, January 24th with episodes available for streaming on Hulu the next day. In 2020, Teigen executive produced and starred in Chrissy’s Court. Season three is now streaming on Roku. She was previously seen as a judge on NBC’s comedy competition show Bring the Funny and co-hosting Paramount Network’s smash hit competition show Lip Sync Battle, which ran for five seasons. Teigen also executive produced the HBO Max documentary series The Way Down about Gwen Shamblin Lara, a weight loss guru and founder of the controversial Remnant Fellowship church in Brentwood, Tennessee. In May 2023, Teigen starred opposite Tina Fey and Nat Faxon in the Netflix animated comedy series Mulligan created by Robert Carlock and Sam Means.
Teigen was recognized on the 2020 Variety500 list as an influential business leader for her work with Cravings and Huntley Productions. She has been a voice for social justice and women’s rights and is actively involved in several charities. In 2018, Teigen was awarded the “Heart of the City” award by City Harvest, a non-profit food rescue organization, for her fundraising efforts. In 2018, Teigen also helped raise $1 million for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in just two days.