Why Did Chrissy Teigen Leave Twitter? Model Says 'It's Time For Me to Say Goodbye'

Model and media personality Chrissy Teigen deleted her Twitter account quickly after announcing that she was leaving the platform on Wednesday, telling followers she that had become someone they did not "sign up for."

Teigen, who had 13.7 million followers, explained her decision in a series of tweets less than an hour before deleting her account. Teigen has left the platform before, albeit temporarily. Although Teigen's final tweets did not indicate whether her decision to leave on Wednesday was permanent, the deletion of her account seems to indicate that it was.

"Hey. For over 10 years, you guys have been my world," Teigen tweeted. "I honestly owe so much to this world we have created here. I truly consider so many of you my actual friends ... But it's time for me to say goodbye. This no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively, and I think that's the right time to call something."

"My life goal is to make people happy. The pain I feel when I don't is too much for me. I've always been portrayed as the strong clap back girl but I'm just not," she added. "My desire to be liked and fear of pissing people off has made me somebody you didn't sign up for, and a different human than I started out here as! Live well, tweeters. Please know all I ever cared about was you!!!"

Previous Twitter departures by Teigen included a short pause in May 2020, when she announced that she was going to take "a little break" and made her account private before returning after one day. She was also absent for more than a week in October 2020 after suffering a miscarriage.

Teigen's Instagram account, which has 34.3 million followers, remained online as of Wednesday night. She has given no indication that she intends to leave any social media platforms other than Twitter.

For a short time, Teigen was one of a small number of people followed by President Joe Biden on his official @POTUS account, having requested that Biden follow her during the new president's inauguration on January 20. She had previously been blocked from the account by former President Donald Trump.

Just over a month after Biden followed her, Teigen requested that he unfollow her account due to the pressure of being one of only around a dozen people that the president followed. Biden obliged after Teigen explained in a Tweet that her request was not due to her disapproval of him but because the change was needed "in order for me to flourish as me."

Newsweek reached out to Teigen's representative for comment.