Chrissy Teigen Reveals Family Hamster Peanut Butter Has Died — and He's Already Been Replaced

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The Teigen-Legend household is mourning the loss of their pet hamster, Peanut Butter.

On Tuesday,Chrissy Teigennonchalantly announced on Twitter that Peanut Butter — one of the family’smany pets— has died.

“Oh. peanut butter the hamster died,” the cookbook author, 35, wrote.

Teigen then revealed to her followers that she and her husband,John Legend, have already welcomed a new hamster into their home for Luna and sonMiles Theodore, 2.

“But do not fret,” Teigen wrote alongside a video of a Christmas stocking for their new hamster, New P. Butter.

“That is the name. don’t attack me!” she added in a second tweet.

Many of Teigen’s followers asked her how she got a stocking made for New P. Butter so quickly, to which she clarified that the original hamster “died a couple weeks ago,” adding, “but I def also could have planned to just have it. I mean he is a hamster.”

Teigen and Legend added the original Peanut Butter the hamster to their family in March 2019. This past January, Teigen shared avideoof daughter Luna playing with Peanut Butter after fans questioned the hamster’s status.

“Stop asking me if the hamster is still alive yes it’s alive!!” she wrote on Instagram.

Peanut Butter’s death comes several months after Teigen announced that the family welcomedpet birds Jasmine and Aladdin.

Before that, the family’s most recent pet addition was abearded dragon, which they purchased in May for son Miles' 2nd birthday.

Teigen and Legend are alsopet parentsto French bulldogs Penny and Pippa and bulldog Pepper, as well aspoodle puppy Petey.

source: people.com