Chrissy Teigen Attends the 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner with John Legend After Illness

Chrissy Teigenbrought Hollywood glam to Washington, D.C., on Saturday nightat the 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

The cookbook author and mother of three walked the red carpet at the famed event — held at the Washington Hilton — while wearing a flowing lilac gown with a sparkling corset waistline, plunging neckline and high-slit skirt.

Chrissy Teigen.Paul Morigi/Getty

Legend, meanwhile, kept it classic in a solid black tux, white shirt, black shoes and bow tie. The EGOT winner, 44, put his arm around Teigen as the two stood together on the carpet. He and Teigen were both guests of NBC News.

Teigen’s night out comes after a week of being under the weather, inan illness she caught on a Disney cruisewith Legend and their kids:daughters Esti Maxine, 3 months, Luna Simone, 6, and son Miles Theodore, 4.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend.Paul Morigi/Getty

She first revealed she wasn’t feeling well on April 21, tweeting that “leaving a Disney cruise is like leaving Las Vegas except you only feeeeeel like you binged drugs, and, you are wet.”

“I have never been more sore, I’m coughing up… something, the bottoms of my feet are roasted rotisserie, I just got phone service and I still feel like we are rocking,” she said. “4 days ago feels like… so long ago. our kids must never EVER forget we did this for them. Solidarity to all the other Disney cruise parents.”

The model continued to give updates about her health on social media during the week. “I am still… madly sick, from this f—ing cruise,” she shared in a selfie video days later, filmed while she laid down.

“I never get sick,” she groaned, before deadpanning, “I love germs. The gift that keeps on giving.”

A couple hours later, she shared a new Instagram Story. “I have to eat,” she explained, “because my medicine is making me throw up because I don’t have anything in my stomach but if I eat I get nauseous. I hate eating when I’m not hungry.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever felt so full-body sick,” she wrote in a post, captioning a photo of her laying on the couch with Esti. “This week kicked my ass but I amonnnthe mend!!”

Meanwhile, this is the second in-person White House Correspondents' Dinner in recent years — the 2020 and 2021 events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Under former PresidentDonald Trump, however, that tradition changed.

During the first three years of his term, the twice-impeached politician snubbed the gathering, telling reporters in 2019 that it was “too negative.”

His White House also began avoiding the event after Michelle Wolf’s turn as emcee in 2018. Like comedians before her, she bluntly mocked several D.C. players, including former Trump spokeswomanSarah Huckabee Sanders.

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This year, Roy Wood, Jr. — ofDaily Showfame — is going to be hosting. “It’s an honor to be a part of a long-running tradition of celebrating those members of the media, who work so hard to uncover the truth, and hold our government accountable,” he said in a statement in February, when his hiring was announced. “It will be a great night that will go down in the history books, or not, depending on which state you live in.”

In an interview withNPRleading up to the event, the comedian said he was anxious and excited about the opportunity.

“It’s like Bruce Willis inArmageddon. They go, ‘Hey, the asteroid’s coming. We need you to … save the Earth. But with humor. Also, you might die, but … you have an opportunity to go up there and say some things that matter to people who normally don’t get talked to,'” he told the outlet. “You can’t say no to that.”

source: people.com