Chrissy Teigen and John Legend were able to return home just in time for their daughter Esti’s second birthday.
“I’m feeling grateful to be back home,” Teigen, 39, wrote via Instagram Story on Monday, January 13, alongside a photo of a homemade cake. “This is all I could muster up for Esti’s birthday.”
The cake was decorated with chocolate frosting and multicolored sprinkles and featured two action figures of Esti’s favorite wrestler John Cena. In addition to Esti, Teigen and Legend, 46, share Luna, 8, Miles, 6, and Wren, 18 months.
Before Esti’s special day, the family was forced to evacuate their home amid the Los Angeles wildfires.
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“This is surreal I’m very scared now. Packing,” Teigen wrote on Wednesday, January 8, as she prepared to go to a hotel with Legend and their children.
Wildfires broke out in the Pacific Palisades on January 7 and quickly spread throughout other parts of Los Angeles. Many celebrities who live in the area have offered updates about losing their homes and personal belongings. Others continue to evacuate the city amid the rapidly changing natural disaster.
Actor Milo Ventimiglia got emotional on Thursday, January 9, as he revealed that his home with wife Jarah Mariano, who is nine months pregnant, was completely destroyed.
“You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and whatnot and then you see your neighbor’s houses and everything kind of around and your heart just breaks,” he told CBS News. “It’s a kind of a shock moment where you go, ‘This is real, this is happening,’ and at a certain point, you just turn it off. What good is it to continue watching? We kind of accepted the loss.”
Ventimiglia, 47, acknowledged the parallel between his loss and his This Is Us character, Jack Pearson, who died from smoke inhalation after a slow cooker caused his family’s home to burn to the ground.
“You know, it’s not lost on me, life imitating art,” he added while reflecting on his personal next steps. “We got good friends and we got good people we’re working with and we’ll make do. Wife and baby and dog, most important.”
John Mayer, meanwhile, shared an emotional post about preparing to lose significant items due to the ongoing wildfires.
“This is the most valuable thing I own. It’s a folder of photos of my father, spanning his life from being a baby, an educator, a husband and a father. It’s the only evidence of his life that will exist over time,” he wrote via Instagram on Thursday alongside a photo of a folder. “These are the ‘documents’ you read about people taking from their homes. When you hear someone say they’ve lost everything in a fire, this is much of that everything, if not all of it.”
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He continued: “Those who say they’ll be okay still have their folders and their albums. Those who are inconsolable have lost them. Just behind the immeasurable loss of life is the loss of the proof of life.”
Mayer, 47, offered a message of support to others being displaced.
“I don’t practice prayer but tonight I will say one for everyone who no longer has these items. It’s not about the art and the collectibles. It’s the photos, the letters, the class rings, the eyeglasses and the things we keep to remind us that those we loved were here,” he added. “May those who have lost so much find some semblance of hope and support from their family and friends. Stay safe, look out for yourself and for one another, and trust that humanity and all it entails, though sometimes hard to see, is alive and well. This is truly devastating.”
Check the LAFD website for local wildfire alerts and click here for resources on how to help those affected.
