Chrissy Teigen picked female embryo to ensure girl baby Chrissy Teigen and John Legend attend book signing for ?Cravings: Recipes For All The Food You Want To Eat? held at Barnes & Noble at The Grove on February 23, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Michael Tran/FilmMagic) Chrissy Teigen decided she wanted her first child to be a girl, and then made sure that happened.