October 27, 2025 • 38 mins
Today on The Bright Side, we're sharing our live podcast recording from Shine Away: Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine's weekend of inspiring panels and meaningful moments that celebrate and elevate women. Simone took the stage at Universal Studios in Los Angeles to interview Chrissy Teigen — cookbook author, entrepreneur, and health advocate. Chrissy was there as a Sanofi spokesperson to talk about something very close to her heart — Type 1 Diabetes — a disease that her son, Miles, was diagnosed with at the age of 6. Chrissy talks about how her and her family got the diagnosis, quickly became a public face of the disease, found a supportive community online, and are now spreading the word about the importance of early screening. To learn more about early screening go to ScreenForType1.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
On the bright side, Hey, look at this crowd we
have and for.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
A really big tree, Shinaway is amazing. You're going to
shine Away.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm taking you somewhere very special.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We are at Shinaway twenty twenty five on the Universal
Studios lot, and the energy here is just electric. There
are these magical conversations taking place on these epic sound stages,
and I'm running into girlfriends and girl crushes and all
these women who inspire me.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's just a really uplifting weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's me, you girl on the ground at Shinaway. I've
been attending for three years now, and what I've learned
is that you can truly manifest anything at Shinaway. If
you're looking for a new job, you are going to
meet that person who is going to open that door
for you. If you want to plan your next international trip,
someone is on that stage telling a story that's going
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to inspire your next destination. Or maybe you just want
to meet a new friend who's into the same stuff
as you are, who's reading the same books as you are.
You'll find her at Shinaway too, because it is a
space to refill your cup, find your people, and remember
your creative superpower, and at the helm of it all
is our executive producer, Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I want you guys to all know that this weekend
isn't just about who we should be or how we
ought to show up. It's just really trusting who you are.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That theme of trusting yourself so deeply resonates with me,
maybe because I'm honestly still learning how to do it.
Every single day, I have to constantly remind myself over
and over again that trust is a muscle. Because every
time I decide to take a risk, every time that
I choose to believe that I'm capable, every time time
(02:00):
I remember who the I am, that muscle grows a
little stronger. And I hope you know that here on
the bright side, we are here for you. We are
here for you to help you strengthen that same muscle.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Because who are the people who save themselves? Those people
are the people who take days like today to fill
their tank with great advice, incredible inspiration from like minded people,
and people who encourage you to be the best version
of yourself. That's the kind of fuel you are going
to get this weekend. And I want you to think
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about that because when you take time to invest in
yourself like you're doing today, you're putting deposits of resilience
and grit in your self worth bank account.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, when I wasn't sitting in the audience listening to
magnetic speakers like Reese Witherspoon, I was preparing for my
own conversation with one of the most hilarious, inspiring and
real women out there, Chrissy Teagan, and Tod I'm taking
you behind the scenes with me for all of it
all right, right now, we're heading to a backstage area
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where I'm going to hang out and get to say
hi to Chrissy before we do our live show together.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We're backstage.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's so cool because we get to hear the conversations
that are happening right now on stage. And you know,
the conversations at Shinaway are just off the charts, so
much learning, so many new ideas and creativity. It just
sparks so much just being here. So let's go say
hi to Chrissy. We have about five.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Minutes until showtime.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It's happening.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I'm so excited to take the stage with Chrissy. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Stage, Chrissy Teagan and host a bright Side podcast, Simon Voice.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And welcome to a live recording of the right Side.
It is so cool. Yeah, I've never done a lot
live recording before podcasts. I've just never done it. This
is a firse check the stress the list.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yes, I'm usually not allowed to be honest with you. Well,
I can't wait to see what we have at Stars today.
I am Simone Voice. I am the host and executive
producer of the bright Side Podcast. And you already know
we are set up here in the sun stage at
the Iconic Universal Studios, a lot in Los Angeles to
create a space for women to fully step into their
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multi dimensional selves. And you already know there is no
one more multi dimensional than my guest today, my girl,
Chrissy Tigan.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, Christy needs no introduction, but we're gonna do it anyways.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
She is a cookbook author and entrepreneur. I mean you've
probably cooked with Chrissy in your kitchen. Her cookies are undefeated.
You've borrowed her beauty secrets, We've gagged over her red
carpet looks, and of course we have left and cried
along with you as you have shared your parenting realness
with us on social media. But today you are here
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with us at Shinaway as a Santa Fee spokesperson to
talk about something that is very close to your heart,
and that is type one diabetes, a diagnosis and disease
that has really impacted your family and your son Miles. Now,
if you're not familiar with type one diabetes, it is
a condition that, once diagnosed, you live with for the.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So Chrissy is teamed up with Santa Fie to spread
the word about the importance of early risk detection and
so we're going to get into your family's healthy Chrissy
so excited.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
My family's here. By the way, Miles and Luna say
are here in the front row. I got to hang
out with them backstage.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Chrissy, I want to start with that actually, because I
just love the way you mother.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I love the way you mother.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I was on your social media last night and just
marveling at what you share.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No, not French, I was marveling at.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
How much you share with us, and I was actually
inspired to share more about my motherhood journey because you're
willing to share not just the cute pics and the
polished stuff, but you also show us.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The messiness and the stuff in between.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Was that a choice for you or was it more
subconscious to be that open.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Oh well, first of all, thank you, Hello Sunshine for
having us like this is so cool, so cool to
be on the bright side, truly, thank you for having me.
Thank you for thank you, and thank you to Santa
Fie the whole entire team for engaging me in the
first place to be able to give me a space
to talk about type one diabetes and early screening. Thank
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you to Miles and Luna for coming along for the ride,
and thank you all so much for being here. But yes,
I will say I think I showed the messiness of
life like even before kids, so like it was kind
of a natural thing just to show every part of
it after kids too. I remember my first like real
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when I knew that like, oh my gosh, like people
have a lot to say about the little things that
I share, was when I shared going through IVF and
I remember saying, oh, like, we're doing the process, we're
doing the shots, and then I had mentioned, you know,
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for the first round, we're going for a girl, and
then oh my god, everything it just blew up in
in a way I did not expect. People were not
happy for us or excited for us. It was a
very big like you chose the sex of your baby,
and it was like a huge thing, and I was like,
oh my goodness, Like is this not talked about?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Really?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Like I didn't realize that people didn't share that part
of it. And then from then on I was just like, okay,
I took all that, and I am okay sharing everything
else too. So there are some things that I don't
really get into with parenting, which is like if they're
having a moment, like sometimes my kids, like anybody's kids,
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are having a bad day, Like you guys can attest
to this, this morning SD not a great day. I
would never film that and put it on the internet.
But for the most part, it's been really great because
it has come with a community that is so ready
and welcoming of that kind of content because it's just
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a normal, as normal as it could possibly be lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I found that becoming a mother actually liberated me in
so many ways. Like we hear so much about you
become a mom, and then all of a sudden your
career ends, or all of a sudden, these opportunities are
going to dry up. No, For me, it liberated me
to lean into my authenticity more and to show more
of myself and show up in the world as a
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more of a real version of myself. Did you experience
that too, that same liberation, yes.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Because like as a forward facing person, people are also
looking to you to share the good and the bad.
But the bad is important because it's so Being a
parent is so complex, Being a mother is really complicated.
There are so many Being a mother, a wife, the
leader of a household in any way is a really
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complex thing and it's really exhausting. And I always felt
like people never social media has done a great job
of talking about it now, but it has never been
fun for people to talk about the bad stuff or
the hard stuff or the challenges. And I even say
the same thing with business, Like I would appreciate it
(09:33):
so much more if people talked about the hardships of
going into business being an entrepreneur, all the no's that
you get, because I know what it feels like to
look around and to see people and you're like, oh
my god, I'm struggling to sell like, you know, boxes
of cake mix and they just sold their company for
(09:55):
a billion dollars like that. It seems I understand why
people think that that world is so easy, but it's
so incredibly dynamic and frustrating, and I wish more people
shared the hard parts about being like a leader in
business in any way, because it's so frustrating. And I
feel like our first step into doing that is probably
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talking about the difficulties of motherhood because people will be
more open to talking about the difficulties of starting a business,
running a business, having a team. That stuff is it's
very difficult.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, you have all these identities as an entrepreneur as
you just mentioned, as an author, as a mom, as
a health advocate. How do these various roles play into
your identity and which part do you feel yourself leaning
into more right now in this season of your life?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Goodness, well, I really love God. Damn you guys. There
is nothing more important to me than if you have
any kind of reach, that you should stand up for
the things you believe in, whether it's political, whether it's medical,
whether it's it can be it doesn't have to be huge, though,
it doesn't have to be this big, vast thing that
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you'd fully dive head in, like head on into when
this happened to us, when Miles was diagnosed with type
one diabetes, we didn't like automatically think like we need
to become advocates for this, but I knew in a
way that we were going to become, in a way,
the face of something and we could help so many people.
(11:27):
I think when I first shared a photo, we were
at the Olympics, right we were in Paris, and we
were supporting Simone Biles, and we had our big signs
up in the air, and I was just excited to
share that photo and Miles had his device on his
omnipod and his dex calm, and a lot of people
noticed it. And so I was kind of thrown into
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it being out there because I didn't my people know, like,
I don't overthink anything I post, obviously, so what is that? Like?
Can I step into that for a day please? I
kind of do now, But like I put that out
there and I didn't realize that so many people would
see this bandage on his arm and see the wrapping
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on his arm and be like, is that an omnipod?
Is that a And then I was just flooded with
those comments and it ended up being such a. I
don't know when I would have shared about it, to
be honest with you, because at that point when it
did come out, I probably didn't know enough and I
wasn't ready, but it kind of threw me into having
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to be ready and it was just out there, and
then we all decided that, like, yes, let's let's come together.
Let's make sure people know that they have people like
us as a family to lean on, and we're going
to be here for them.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Christy, I think it's so cool that you have proudly
and confidently stepped into that role because so many people
in your position might not want to be that open
about it. So what were those comments like when you
first shared about Miles's diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
What were people saying to you, Well, it's scary because
it was so early in it, right, So, and I
I'm not a doctor, you guys, but you have to
be not either. We should just get that out there
right now. A lot of things. I'm not a baker,
a shit starter, but I am no doctor. I I
remember feeling like, Okay, I want to get this right
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for everybody that's depending on us. There are people that
are looking to us to draw awareness, to make sure
that they know to make sure that other people might
know the plight that they they're experiencing, because it is
an all encompassing disease. It's an all day disease, it's
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an entire life disease, and it just it was a
little bit scary to be like, oh my god, like
I got to get everything right. So we went to
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, US, and I will say, like
he was diagnosed. We went to like one class at
Children's hospital, went to the Olympics where it all came out,
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and then I was like, We're going to have to
do a lot more classes. So we did all the
things that everybody does, which is like you learn how
to prick an orange and try to get it right
on various fruits so you don't hurt your child, and
you learn all you can. And for me, I read
children's books. I was obsessed with reading children's books because
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they just put it in a way that was I
could understand and it wasn't too complex for me. And
I will say, like Miles knows more about his type
one than anybody on this planet. Look at him smiling. Yeah,
When I'm confused about the dex calm, the omnipod, the phone, anything.
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He is the first one to be like, no, this
is what's right, this is why we do it, this
is what we do. And I just think that's so cool.
And that means he's really had an incredible team at
Children's Hospital as well that have been able to empower
him and empower us as parents, but mostly empower him.
This little boy can take care of himself so well,
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and it's so beautiful to see. And it's been really
awesome also to see his friends in school support him,
and Luna and Wren and SD are other children in
our household. It's been really wonderful to see, well, that's
also you, mama, and that's your husband too, giving him
the information and the resources so that he can feel confident. Well,
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John loves making insulin. John's the insulin maker every month.
He loves mixing because again we did IVF right, so
I actually enjoyed the process of mixing the compounds and
the men up here on this that everything that goes
into doing your shots for IVF. And then everyone knows
that John's going to be the guy to make the
insulin for the month. But also we have an incredible
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team of people that really support us and help us.
And and also if you guys know anybody that has
been affected by T one D or has T and
D themselves or is a T and D family. John
went to a camp, an overnight camp for a week.
And I've done those camps as a girl scout mama.
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But I was like, oh my god, John, going to camp?
Are you kidding? Are we okay? What kind of camp
are we talking? Like? Was he dressed up like in it?
It was close to that. Okay, I have a deck
of they have a deck of beds, okay, and you
know all the kids they want to sleep outside. But
I know John is way more like what's the word
(16:44):
like bougie than I am, like, okay, yes, I can
sleep anywhere, and you camp, Chrissy, I can, right, guys,
I camp, I do. I will get the bagged meals.
I'll eat out of a bag. I don't care. John
is like a lot more precious about that stuff. He
did this camp and found, you know, hundreds of other
families that were experiencing the same thing. Miles became friends
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with so many people. But more than just the children
finding you know, themselves mirrored and other children. It was
really beautiful for the parents. John specifically told me that
every talk and every circle that the parents would have
during the day, like it was just parents crying, one
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after another, talking about how difficult it was and how
hard it was to navigate, and how scared they were
because they were fully in charge of their child's health.
And you really realize that, like, if you have anybody
in that position, if you're in that position and you
have anyone to lean onto, it is so important and
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so beautiful to find that community. And I will say
the t one D community when they reached out from
that post I did or anything. It's so welcoming and
so sweet and so beautiful and beloved to me.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Now, Chrissy, would you take us back in time a
little bit to that moment when you got that diagnosis?
What was your initial reaction?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I know everyone always loved to say, was it so
scary initially? And I will say it wasn't because I
didn't know enough. Miles went to this camp last summer
and it was a football camp. Miles is very athletic,
love sports so much, and for some reason within the camp,
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like over fifty percent of the kids became infected with
something called shigella kind of a bacterial disease, and it
ended up coming from like the gatorade container that they
were drinking out of. But like, I literally was getting
phone calls from the CDC. It was like I remember
that movie Contagion where they were trying to find out
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where it came from. It was like that. I was like,
oh my gosh, Like I'm getting a call from a
phone number that just says zero, and they're like what, Wow,
did this happen? And the only person really taken down
by it at the camp was Miles. He was in
the hospital. He was at Cedars for three nights, and
I just figured that, like, oh, he's got a sensitive
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tummy because when he was born, like he was a
little dude, and he came out really early. He's smiling, laughing.
But I just figured it was that, And slowly but
surely we started learning throughout the process of him being
in the hospital that it's kind of the only time
that they're running blood tests on a six year old, right, right, So,
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you know, so many families, a lot of families find
out about their diagnosis through something completely different, going to
the hospital for something completely different. You know, not everybody
but a few and that was our scenario. So they
were checking his blood levels and and just they knew
something was up and we were just you know, trying
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to get through what he was going through at the time.
And then his doctor, doctor Crosby, was you know, the
first to tell us, maybe on day two, that it's
looking like he has type one diabetes. And I was like, oh,
that's fine. When he feels bad, we throw a starbars
at his forehead and we're just like christ Christmas, Christy,
come on now, and we're like, just take it. No,
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it's more than that turns out. But yeah, so I
learned so much so quickly John as well our whole family,
and we are still learning to this day. But yeah,
it wasn't scary for me in the beginning, just because
of how I thought it would be so easy to navigate.
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When you hear about in any I don't know anything
I've any time I've ever seen anybody talk about it, it
was like, oh, I'm not feeling good. I need sugar.
And you really realize how much more complex it is.
And I'm sure you're realizing that every day.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I mean, Miles is so active, he's playing a lot
of sports right now. And I know that it's something
that you, as a parent have to be conscious of,
and I'm sure that you're doing your best to make
sure that it's not something that he has to be
conscious of.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
How does it affect Miles's everyday life? Miles is crazy active.
I don't have a more active child than Miles. He
came out the Wombs swing in.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He had a helmet when he was a little baby,
and I always joke and I say, like, I think
because he had a helmet for so many months, he
thinks he's invincible. He flies through life, he is a bounder,
he throws his body. I mean, he is so incredibly physical.
But he's also incredibly good at sports. John and I
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have no idea how he is so good at sports.
He just is. He can catch, he can throw, he
can do everything. So navigating that world of type one
with having such a physical child rights has been a
little bit challenging, just because you want to make sure
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that they're still able to do all the things they love.
The worst thing that could happen is that they that
they have to make a change to their little lives.
And I think one thing that people don't know I
don't know if anybody out there has a child with
te D or knows somebody with T and D. But
there's a different part of it that's also really challenging,
which is like the skincare that goes into it, because
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when you're constantly changing your monitors and your devices and
you have skin that's more sensitive and having to change it,
you know, two or three times a week, like it
can be really painful for them as well, and it
can almost be more painful than the diabetes itself just
taking the shots and everything. So navigating that world was
really interesting and tough. But again that's why I love
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community of it, Yes, because I love the fact that
I can share that we're having this experience and this
has been a little bit tough on us. But do
you guys have any recommendations? And I hear all these
different things from so many different people that have lived
with type one for thirty forty years saying this is
what works for me. I had the same condition, This
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worked for me, And they're so excited to share all
the time, and that has been awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
As a mom, as fathers to all we want to
do is just shield our children from pain and shield
our children from anything uncomfortable. And I can imagine that
as a mom when you have to constantly subject your
son to pricks or deprive them of sweets. I am
a sugar girly all the way. That would be so
hard for me. I'm sure that's really challenging as a mom.
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Have you found ways to make that mental aspect.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I mean, I have three other children, and I know
it's very hard to do anything with them if they
don't have any kind of affliction at all. I mean
it's hard to go get a shot at the doctor's office.
It's hard to do. And that's you know, every few
months or once every year. I know that when they
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feel left out of a child's birthday party in any
way because they can't have that certain thing that really
affects them. I think our family has done a really
good job of being able to understand what's good for him,
what's not good for him, while still being able to
have the treats when he wants to have the treats.
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And also our school nurse feels that way too, and
a lot of TEA one D parents don't want the
kids to feel left out. Ever. I think that's a
huge part of it growing up is if people are
serving cupcakes at a birthday party, you are just going
to have to dose a little bit more, and you're
going to dose a little bit early, and you're going
to make sure that they enjoy that cupcake. Because the
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worst thing, way worse than the pains of the little
pricks and stuff, is the feeling of feeling left out
by a large group of people that they care about
that are watching them. So the school has done a
really good job to making sure that if there's a
snack on hand that maybe wouldn't be so great for him,
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we have an alternative, always knowing that they're never going
to feel left out. That's huge.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I know that you and your family found out about
te D indirectly through that bacterial infection, but you've teamed
up with Santa Fee because you want to raise awareness
around early risk detection.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
What does that look like? It's actually I just recently
did it, and I was so surprised by my experience.
And I live in Los Angeles, as I'm sure most
of you do, and we test for all sorts of things.
I remember having a poop and a tray. You guys,
I'm wait, what like there are just so many tests
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out there now for testing your bacterial levels, and and
I will say that test for me was like one
of the worst. I don't has anyone done it. Can
anyone admit to have doing this test before the poop
and a tray test, thank you so much. It's literally
a French fry tray and you poop in it and
then you have to mix the poop with liquid. I
am telling you this story only to let you know
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how much easier this test is than doing something like that.
I was really amazed because we did it with our
our doctor, doctor Crosby. And one of the things I
found most fascinating about miles experience was that even after
he was diagnosed, we weren't told to screen the other children.
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Really yes, And then it wasn't until engaging with Santa
Fe that I realized that this was an option and
we were so excited to take it. Like John and
I are big lovers of science, big lovers of anything
we can do to perhaps like get ahead of something
that may be very confusing journey at first, Yeah, I
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did it. It Basically, it's a little card. There's four
dots on it, four or five. You prick your finger,
which Miles does all the time, and yes, as a
seven year old, and you are just dotting blood into
the little dots and then you put it in an
envelope and you ship it off and you're able to
get your results for perhaps getting being diagnosed with T
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one D in the future. And what is so amazing
is that, while I like to think now that we
know a lot about T one D, having just a
little bit more time would have been incredibly helpful to
us and incredibly beneficial. Oh so, could you share more
about that? I mean, I would have. We came home
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from the hospital and I was like Amazon priming books.
I was going on TikTok. I was asking every question possible,
because it's not a disease that's like, Okay, you're going
to be waiting a little bit of time. It started
now when he was at the hospital. It started right then.
Our lives changed right then. Miles' life changed right then,
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and we wanted to make sure that he would be safe, happy, calm,
and felt like he was surrounded by people that knew
what they were doing. And I'm sorry to tell you, Miles,
at the beginning, we didn't know what we were doing.
But now we do, and it would have meant so
much to be able to have just a few months,
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a few weeks to understand what was happening.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, I know that Miles didn't display any symptoms of
T and D beforehand, which is why this screening is
so incredible.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
None. I mean you look online and it's like, oh,
they're urinating a lot. They get a little bit weak
when this happens. He didn't have any of that yet
as a six year old.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
If you could go back and talk to yourself before Miles' diagnosis,
what would you tell that version of you about what
to expect on the road ahead.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh, I would definitely tell myself that don't worry. There's
an amazing group of people that are so beyond ready
to help you with every question you have. Because I
didn't know at that point that so many people would
take us in, like family members, whether they had had
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it for thirty years or just six months. Oh my god,
what a warm, welcoming community. I wouldn't have been so
nervous that it was all on me as a mother.
You know, John goes on tour. I realized it me
a little bit of time, but like, oh my gosh,
like technology has come such a long way. We are
(30:06):
all involved in it. We see everything. Our phone's paying
John's phone, my phone, the doctor, everybody. I didn't have
to ever feel like it was just all on my plate.
And then I also would have never imagined that Miles
himself would be able to do so much on his
own and and really take initiative and take control over
his own body and look at me in the eyes
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and say like, no, Mama, I'm okay, like this is
what's happening right now. Like I would have never imagined.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
That, how are you doing with the mental load day
to day now? Like, honestly, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Actually, it's my favorite part of life. Honestly, I had
four kids for a reason. I love the chaos of it.
I knew that, you know, it was going to be challenging,
but I live for it every day. And I think John.
I know John does as well. But I will say
(31:00):
I want. Something that made me really really happy to
hear the other day was I was wondering, if you know,
Miles and Luna might not want a lot of kids,
because we are in a family of a lot of kids.
And I remember looking at them and saying when all
the babies were going crazy and they were going crazy
(31:20):
and everybody had the zoomies. I looked down at them
and I said, like, does this make you guys not
want to have kids or have a lot of kids?
And they both said to me, this makes us want
to have a lot of kids. And that made me
really happy, and it made me feel like we were
doing something right and something really special in our household.
And I loved it. A Luna is saying she would
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have three right now.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
There is the magic number for Luna. Well, I saw
something on your social the other day that just melted
my heart. It was it was a video of Luna
preparing you and John dinner in her cafe that she
created y'all called the cafe.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, do you remember making a cafe? Day?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
May do that growing up with your cousins or your siblings.
It was as it was a menu everything. But Chrissy,
the caption is what broke me. You said, she is
everything I was as a little girl, only ten million
times better.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Absolutely. Yeah, my ovaries were throbbing. I'm gonna be honest
with you. I was like, I need to have a
million kids. Now we all are John would say the
same thing about Miles too. You look at them and
you're like, oh my god, Like it's hard to take
credit for yourself and be like, oh my god, it's
because of us, because they're surrounded by an incredible group
of people that are so helpful and so wonderful, incredible schools.
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Like but yeah, they are like the best parts of us,
without the insecurities and the things that I felt when
I was young, because I grew up in a household
that was a little challenging to navigate because it was
like a little darker and and maybe like had a
little more anger in it. Like I think our household
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is really light and fun, and while it has its
moments of challenges, it seems to be really working in
a way that is working for them. And it makes
me so happy to know that they're like really happy.
They're really really happy. We go on vacation and they
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can't wait to go home. We John and I come
home from you know, a work trip in New York
City or something, and like we are bombarded with like
all the hugs we could ever dream of, and then
also with the littles that are like no so like
but to me, like, I love that too. That's every
part of growing up. It's all beautiful, it's all amazing,
(33:45):
and it's just been like a yeah, I just I
love I love I love it more than I love
doing anything else. Like it is just built for me.
I love it and I would continue to have more,
but John refuses. You wear motherhood so well and you
make it look so easy.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Chrissy, we like to end every conversation on the bright
side with a moment to shine.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
So I want to ask you, what are you celebrating
right now? Oh my gosh, I'm about to turn forty
and I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It's kind of get a little commotion for forty.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I really like people are like, oh is it like
do oh is it scary? Is it? No? I feel great.
Like on one note, like I literally have been telling
myself I'm about to turn forty for two years, so
like ever since I was thirty, and I was like,
next year's forty. So I don't feel like it's that
old because because I've been telling myself for this for
so long. But also it's just not old, and I
feel great. I feel thirteen years old. I like, aside
(34:45):
from like the cracking of like my bones and things like. Mentally,
I feel very young and excited for life and just
honored to be able to have people listen to me talk,
have people like you want to talk to me, and
to still have a family and get to cook my
(35:06):
favorite recipes and see my husband live his best life,
his dream life. It's like, God, what could be better
than that? What could be better than that? I love
that for you. I am celebrating this community today.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yes, I am celebrating this beautiful community because we wouldn't
be on.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
This stage without you.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
So actually, matter of fact, now that I have you here,
I want to ask you, what are you celebrating right now?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Chris? Anybody one word? What are you celebrating? Joy? Yeah? Joys? Okay?
How about you right here? Yeah? Get birthday? What are
you celebrating over here? One person? Let's go? Yes, yes, sister?
This great? Wait what else? Guys? Come on?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Wait when you say record, Oh my god, first woman
to skateboard across America.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Wow, Wow, this is a celebration. I have chills right now?
Are cool? Wow? Wait? Can I just like just to end?
Can I encourage you all to go to screen for
type one dot com to see first of all incredible
videos of me and Miles, right Miles, but also you
can learn all about screening for type one. We are
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really encouraging everybody to do it because of just how
much it would have helped my family and you guys,
thank you so much for being here. This has really
been special, So thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Thank you so much, Chrissy, Thank you, Santa Fie. And
if you want to hear more conversations like this, come
hang out with me on the bright Side. Okay, I
listen to the bye and night. Thank you everyone, and
enjoy shine away.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Thank everybody.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
The bright Side is a production of Hello Sunshine and
iHeart Podcasts and is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and
me Simone Voice. Production is by Acast Creative Studios. Our
producers are Taylor Williamson, Adrian Bain, Abby Delk, and Darby Masters.
Our production assistant is Joya putnoy A Casts. Executive producers
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are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rutter. Maury Ullo and Reese
Witherspoon are the executive producers.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
For Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Ali Ferry and Lauren Hansen are the executive producers for
iHeart Podcasts. Our theme song is by Anna Stump and
Hamilton Lakehouser
Today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
On the bright side, Hey, look at this crowd we
have and for.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
A really big tree, Shinaway is amazing. You're going to
shine Away.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm taking you somewhere very special.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We are at Shinaway twenty twenty five on the Universal
Studios lot, and the energy here is just electric. There
are these magical conversations taking place on these epic sound stages,
and I'm running into girlfriends and girl crushes and all
these women who inspire me.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's just a really uplifting weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That's me, you girl on the ground at Shinaway. I've
been attending for three years now, and what I've learned
is that you can truly manifest anything at Shinaway. If
you're looking for a new job, you are going to
meet that person who is going to open that door
for you. If you want to plan your next international trip,
someone is on that stage telling a story that's going
(01:06):
to inspire your next destination. Or maybe you just want
to meet a new friend who's into the same stuff
as you are, who's reading the same books as you are.
You'll find her at Shinaway too, because it is a
space to refill your cup, find your people, and remember
your creative superpower, and at the helm of it all
is our executive producer, Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I want you guys to all know that this weekend
isn't just about who we should be or how we
ought to show up. It's just really trusting who you are.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That theme of trusting yourself so deeply resonates with me,
maybe because I'm honestly still learning how to do it.
Every single day, I have to constantly remind myself over
and over again that trust is a muscle. Because every
time I decide to take a risk, every time that
I choose to believe that I'm capable, every time time
(02:00):
I remember who the I am, that muscle grows a
little stronger. And I hope you know that here on
the bright side, we are here for you. We are
here for you to help you strengthen that same muscle.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Because who are the people who save themselves? Those people
are the people who take days like today to fill
their tank with great advice, incredible inspiration from like minded people,
and people who encourage you to be the best version
of yourself. That's the kind of fuel you are going
to get this weekend. And I want you to think
(02:35):
about that because when you take time to invest in
yourself like you're doing today, you're putting deposits of resilience
and grit in your self worth bank account.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, when I wasn't sitting in the audience listening to
magnetic speakers like Reese Witherspoon, I was preparing for my
own conversation with one of the most hilarious, inspiring and
real women out there, Chrissy Teagan, and Tod I'm taking
you behind the scenes with me for all of it
all right, right now, we're heading to a backstage area
(03:07):
where I'm going to hang out and get to say
hi to Chrissy before we do our live show together.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We're backstage.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's so cool because we get to hear the conversations
that are happening right now on stage. And you know,
the conversations at Shinaway are just off the charts, so
much learning, so many new ideas and creativity. It just
sparks so much just being here. So let's go say
hi to Chrissy. We have about five.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Minutes until showtime.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It's happening.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I'm so excited to take the stage with Chrissy. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Stage, Chrissy Teagan and host a bright Side podcast, Simon Voice.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And welcome to a live recording of the right Side.
It is so cool. Yeah, I've never done a lot
live recording before podcasts. I've just never done it. This
is a firse check the stress the list.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yes, I'm usually not allowed to be honest with you. Well,
I can't wait to see what we have at Stars today.
I am Simone Voice. I am the host and executive
producer of the bright Side Podcast. And you already know
we are set up here in the sun stage at
the Iconic Universal Studios, a lot in Los Angeles to
create a space for women to fully step into their
(04:27):
multi dimensional selves. And you already know there is no
one more multi dimensional than my guest today, my girl,
Chrissy Tigan.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, Christy needs no introduction, but we're gonna do it anyways.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
She is a cookbook author and entrepreneur. I mean you've
probably cooked with Chrissy in your kitchen. Her cookies are undefeated.
You've borrowed her beauty secrets, We've gagged over her red
carpet looks, and of course we have left and cried
along with you as you have shared your parenting realness
with us on social media. But today you are here
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with us at Shinaway as a Santa Fee spokesperson to
talk about something that is very close to your heart,
and that is type one diabetes, a diagnosis and disease
that has really impacted your family and your son Miles. Now,
if you're not familiar with type one diabetes, it is
a condition that, once diagnosed, you live with for the.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So Chrissy is teamed up with Santa Fie to spread
the word about the importance of early risk detection and
so we're going to get into your family's healthy Chrissy
so excited.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
My family's here. By the way, Miles and Luna say
are here in the front row. I got to hang
out with them backstage.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Chrissy, I want to start with that actually, because I
just love the way you mother.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I love the way you mother.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I was on your social media last night and just
marveling at what you share.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No, not French, I was marveling at.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
How much you share with us, and I was actually
inspired to share more about my motherhood journey because you're
willing to share not just the cute pics and the
polished stuff, but you also show us.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The messiness and the stuff in between.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Was that a choice for you or was it more
subconscious to be that open.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Oh well, first of all, thank you, Hello Sunshine for
having us like this is so cool, so cool to
be on the bright side, truly, thank you for having me.
Thank you for thank you, and thank you to Santa
Fie the whole entire team for engaging me in the
first place to be able to give me a space
to talk about type one diabetes and early screening. Thank
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you to Miles and Luna for coming along for the ride,
and thank you all so much for being here. But yes,
I will say I think I showed the messiness of
life like even before kids, so like it was kind
of a natural thing just to show every part of
it after kids too. I remember my first like real
(07:01):
when I knew that like, oh my gosh, like people
have a lot to say about the little things that
I share, was when I shared going through IVF and
I remember saying, oh, like, we're doing the process, we're
doing the shots, and then I had mentioned, you know,
(07:21):
for the first round, we're going for a girl, and
then oh my god, everything it just blew up in
in a way I did not expect. People were not
happy for us or excited for us. It was a
very big like you chose the sex of your baby,
and it was like a huge thing, and I was like,
oh my goodness, Like is this not talked about?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Really?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Like I didn't realize that people didn't share that part
of it. And then from then on I was just like, okay,
I took all that, and I am okay sharing everything
else too. So there are some things that I don't
really get into with parenting, which is like if they're
having a moment, like sometimes my kids, like anybody's kids,
(08:01):
are having a bad day, Like you guys can attest
to this, this morning SD not a great day. I
would never film that and put it on the internet.
But for the most part, it's been really great because
it has come with a community that is so ready
and welcoming of that kind of content because it's just
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a normal, as normal as it could possibly be lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I found that becoming a mother actually liberated me in
so many ways. Like we hear so much about you
become a mom, and then all of a sudden your
career ends, or all of a sudden, these opportunities are
going to dry up. No, For me, it liberated me
to lean into my authenticity more and to show more
of myself and show up in the world as a
(08:48):
more of a real version of myself. Did you experience
that too, that same liberation, yes.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Because like as a forward facing person, people are also
looking to you to share the good and the bad.
But the bad is important because it's so Being a
parent is so complex, Being a mother is really complicated.
There are so many Being a mother, a wife, the
leader of a household in any way is a really
(09:13):
complex thing and it's really exhausting. And I always felt
like people never social media has done a great job
of talking about it now, but it has never been
fun for people to talk about the bad stuff or
the hard stuff or the challenges. And I even say
the same thing with business, Like I would appreciate it
(09:33):
so much more if people talked about the hardships of
going into business being an entrepreneur, all the no's that
you get, because I know what it feels like to
look around and to see people and you're like, oh
my god, I'm struggling to sell like, you know, boxes
of cake mix and they just sold their company for
(09:55):
a billion dollars like that. It seems I understand why
people think that that world is so easy, but it's
so incredibly dynamic and frustrating, and I wish more people
shared the hard parts about being like a leader in
business in any way, because it's so frustrating. And I
feel like our first step into doing that is probably
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talking about the difficulties of motherhood because people will be
more open to talking about the difficulties of starting a business,
running a business, having a team. That stuff is it's
very difficult.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, you have all these identities as an entrepreneur as
you just mentioned, as an author, as a mom, as
a health advocate. How do these various roles play into
your identity and which part do you feel yourself leaning
into more right now in this season of your life?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Goodness, well, I really love God. Damn you guys. There
is nothing more important to me than if you have
any kind of reach, that you should stand up for
the things you believe in, whether it's political, whether it's medical,
whether it's it can be it doesn't have to be huge, though,
it doesn't have to be this big, vast thing that
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you'd fully dive head in, like head on into when
this happened to us, when Miles was diagnosed with type
one diabetes, we didn't like automatically think like we need
to become advocates for this, but I knew in a
way that we were going to become, in a way,
the face of something and we could help so many people.
(11:27):
I think when I first shared a photo, we were
at the Olympics, right we were in Paris, and we
were supporting Simone Biles, and we had our big signs
up in the air, and I was just excited to
share that photo and Miles had his device on his
omnipod and his dex calm, and a lot of people
noticed it. And so I was kind of thrown into
(11:50):
it being out there because I didn't my people know, like,
I don't overthink anything I post, obviously, so what is that? Like?
Can I step into that for a day please? I
kind of do now, But like I put that out
there and I didn't realize that so many people would
see this bandage on his arm and see the wrapping
(12:11):
on his arm and be like, is that an omnipod?
Is that a And then I was just flooded with
those comments and it ended up being such a. I
don't know when I would have shared about it, to
be honest with you, because at that point when it
did come out, I probably didn't know enough and I
wasn't ready, but it kind of threw me into having
(12:32):
to be ready and it was just out there, and
then we all decided that, like, yes, let's let's come together.
Let's make sure people know that they have people like
us as a family to lean on, and we're going
to be here for them.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Christy, I think it's so cool that you have proudly
and confidently stepped into that role because so many people
in your position might not want to be that open
about it. So what were those comments like when you
first shared about Miles's diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
What were people saying to you, Well, it's scary because
it was so early in it, right, So, and I
I'm not a doctor, you guys, but you have to
be not either. We should just get that out there
right now. A lot of things. I'm not a baker,
a shit starter, but I am no doctor. I I
remember feeling like, Okay, I want to get this right
(13:26):
for everybody that's depending on us. There are people that
are looking to us to draw awareness, to make sure
that they know to make sure that other people might
know the plight that they they're experiencing, because it is
an all encompassing disease. It's an all day disease, it's
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an entire life disease, and it just it was a
little bit scary to be like, oh my god, like
I got to get everything right. So we went to
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, US, and I will say, like
he was diagnosed. We went to like one class at
Children's hospital, went to the Olympics where it all came out,
(14:11):
and then I was like, We're going to have to
do a lot more classes. So we did all the
things that everybody does, which is like you learn how
to prick an orange and try to get it right
on various fruits so you don't hurt your child, and
you learn all you can. And for me, I read
children's books. I was obsessed with reading children's books because
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they just put it in a way that was I
could understand and it wasn't too complex for me. And
I will say, like Miles knows more about his type
one than anybody on this planet. Look at him smiling. Yeah,
When I'm confused about the dex calm, the omnipod, the phone, anything.
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He is the first one to be like, no, this
is what's right, this is why we do it, this
is what we do. And I just think that's so cool.
And that means he's really had an incredible team at
Children's Hospital as well that have been able to empower
him and empower us as parents, but mostly empower him.
This little boy can take care of himself so well,
(15:15):
and it's so beautiful to see. And it's been really
awesome also to see his friends in school support him,
and Luna and Wren and SD are other children in
our household. It's been really wonderful to see, well, that's
also you, mama, and that's your husband too, giving him
the information and the resources so that he can feel confident. Well,
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John loves making insulin. John's the insulin maker every month.
He loves mixing because again we did IVF right, so
I actually enjoyed the process of mixing the compounds and
the men up here on this that everything that goes
into doing your shots for IVF. And then everyone knows
that John's going to be the guy to make the
insulin for the month. But also we have an incredible
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team of people that really support us and help us.
And and also if you guys know anybody that has
been affected by T one D or has T and
D themselves or is a T and D family. John
went to a camp, an overnight camp for a week.
And I've done those camps as a girl scout mama.
(16:20):
But I was like, oh my god, John, going to camp?
Are you kidding? Are we okay? What kind of camp
are we talking? Like? Was he dressed up like in it?
It was close to that. Okay, I have a deck
of they have a deck of beds, okay, and you
know all the kids they want to sleep outside. But
I know John is way more like what's the word
(16:44):
like bougie than I am, like, okay, yes, I can
sleep anywhere, and you camp, Chrissy, I can, right, guys,
I camp, I do. I will get the bagged meals.
I'll eat out of a bag. I don't care. John
is like a lot more precious about that stuff. He
did this camp and found, you know, hundreds of other
families that were experiencing the same thing. Miles became friends
(17:06):
with so many people. But more than just the children
finding you know, themselves mirrored and other children. It was
really beautiful for the parents. John specifically told me that
every talk and every circle that the parents would have
during the day, like it was just parents crying, one
(17:27):
after another, talking about how difficult it was and how
hard it was to navigate, and how scared they were
because they were fully in charge of their child's health.
And you really realize that, like, if you have anybody
in that position, if you're in that position and you
have anyone to lean onto, it is so important and
(17:47):
so beautiful to find that community. And I will say
the t one D community when they reached out from
that post I did or anything. It's so welcoming and
so sweet and so beautiful and beloved to me.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Now, Chrissy, would you take us back in time a
little bit to that moment when you got that diagnosis?
What was your initial reaction?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I know everyone always loved to say, was it so
scary initially? And I will say it wasn't because I
didn't know enough. Miles went to this camp last summer
and it was a football camp. Miles is very athletic,
love sports so much, and for some reason within the camp,
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like over fifty percent of the kids became infected with
something called shigella kind of a bacterial disease, and it
ended up coming from like the gatorade container that they
were drinking out of. But like, I literally was getting
phone calls from the CDC. It was like I remember
that movie Contagion where they were trying to find out
(19:07):
where it came from. It was like that. I was like,
oh my gosh, Like I'm getting a call from a
phone number that just says zero, and they're like what, Wow,
did this happen? And the only person really taken down
by it at the camp was Miles. He was in
the hospital. He was at Cedars for three nights, and
I just figured that, like, oh, he's got a sensitive
(19:29):
tummy because when he was born, like he was a
little dude, and he came out really early. He's smiling, laughing.
But I just figured it was that, And slowly but
surely we started learning throughout the process of him being
in the hospital that it's kind of the only time
that they're running blood tests on a six year old, right, right, So,
(19:53):
you know, so many families, a lot of families find
out about their diagnosis through something completely different, going to
the hospital for something completely different. You know, not everybody
but a few and that was our scenario. So they
were checking his blood levels and and just they knew
something was up and we were just you know, trying
(20:13):
to get through what he was going through at the time.
And then his doctor, doctor Crosby, was you know, the
first to tell us, maybe on day two, that it's
looking like he has type one diabetes. And I was like, oh,
that's fine. When he feels bad, we throw a starbars
at his forehead and we're just like christ Christmas, Christy,
come on now, and we're like, just take it. No,
(20:36):
it's more than that turns out. But yeah, so I
learned so much so quickly John as well our whole family,
and we are still learning to this day. But yeah,
it wasn't scary for me in the beginning, just because
of how I thought it would be so easy to navigate.
(20:57):
When you hear about in any I don't know anything
I've any time I've ever seen anybody talk about it, it
was like, oh, I'm not feeling good. I need sugar.
And you really realize how much more complex it is.
And I'm sure you're realizing that every day.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I mean, Miles is so active, he's playing a lot
of sports right now. And I know that it's something
that you, as a parent have to be conscious of,
and I'm sure that you're doing your best to make
sure that it's not something that he has to be
conscious of.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
How does it affect Miles's everyday life? Miles is crazy active.
I don't have a more active child than Miles. He
came out the Wombs swing in.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He had a helmet when he was a little baby,
and I always joke and I say, like, I think
because he had a helmet for so many months, he
thinks he's invincible. He flies through life, he is a bounder,
he throws his body. I mean, he is so incredibly physical.
But he's also incredibly good at sports. John and I
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have no idea how he is so good at sports.
He just is. He can catch, he can throw, he
can do everything. So navigating that world of type one
with having such a physical child rights has been a
little bit challenging, just because you want to make sure
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that they're still able to do all the things they love.
The worst thing that could happen is that they that
they have to make a change to their little lives.
And I think one thing that people don't know I
don't know if anybody out there has a child with
te D or knows somebody with T and D. But
there's a different part of it that's also really challenging,
which is like the skincare that goes into it, because
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when you're constantly changing your monitors and your devices and
you have skin that's more sensitive and having to change it,
you know, two or three times a week, like it
can be really painful for them as well, and it
can almost be more painful than the diabetes itself just
taking the shots and everything. So navigating that world was
really interesting and tough. But again that's why I love
(23:00):
community of it, Yes, because I love the fact that
I can share that we're having this experience and this
has been a little bit tough on us. But do
you guys have any recommendations? And I hear all these
different things from so many different people that have lived
with type one for thirty forty years saying this is
what works for me. I had the same condition, This
(23:22):
worked for me, And they're so excited to share all
the time, and that has been awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
As a mom, as fathers to all we want to
do is just shield our children from pain and shield
our children from anything uncomfortable. And I can imagine that
as a mom when you have to constantly subject your
son to pricks or deprive them of sweets. I am
a sugar girly all the way. That would be so
hard for me. I'm sure that's really challenging as a mom.
(23:53):
Have you found ways to make that mental aspect.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I mean, I have three other children, and I know
it's very hard to do anything with them if they
don't have any kind of affliction at all. I mean
it's hard to go get a shot at the doctor's office.
It's hard to do. And that's you know, every few
months or once every year. I know that when they
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feel left out of a child's birthday party in any
way because they can't have that certain thing that really
affects them. I think our family has done a really
good job of being able to understand what's good for him,
what's not good for him, while still being able to
have the treats when he wants to have the treats.
(24:39):
And also our school nurse feels that way too, and
a lot of TEA one D parents don't want the
kids to feel left out. Ever. I think that's a
huge part of it growing up is if people are
serving cupcakes at a birthday party, you are just going
to have to dose a little bit more, and you're
going to dose a little bit early, and you're going
to make sure that they enjoy that cupcake. Because the
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worst thing, way worse than the pains of the little
pricks and stuff, is the feeling of feeling left out
by a large group of people that they care about
that are watching them. So the school has done a
really good job to making sure that if there's a
snack on hand that maybe wouldn't be so great for him,
(25:21):
we have an alternative, always knowing that they're never going
to feel left out. That's huge.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I know that you and your family found out about
te D indirectly through that bacterial infection, but you've teamed
up with Santa Fee because you want to raise awareness
around early risk detection.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
What does that look like? It's actually I just recently
did it, and I was so surprised by my experience.
And I live in Los Angeles, as I'm sure most
of you do, and we test for all sorts of things.
I remember having a poop and a tray. You guys,
I'm wait, what like there are just so many tests
(26:14):
out there now for testing your bacterial levels, and and
I will say that test for me was like one
of the worst. I don't has anyone done it. Can
anyone admit to have doing this test before the poop
and a tray test, thank you so much. It's literally
a French fry tray and you poop in it and
then you have to mix the poop with liquid. I
am telling you this story only to let you know
(26:37):
how much easier this test is than doing something like that.
I was really amazed because we did it with our
our doctor, doctor Crosby. And one of the things I
found most fascinating about miles experience was that even after
he was diagnosed, we weren't told to screen the other children.
(27:00):
Really yes, And then it wasn't until engaging with Santa
Fe that I realized that this was an option and
we were so excited to take it. Like John and
I are big lovers of science, big lovers of anything
we can do to perhaps like get ahead of something
that may be very confusing journey at first, Yeah, I
(27:23):
did it. It Basically, it's a little card. There's four
dots on it, four or five. You prick your finger,
which Miles does all the time, and yes, as a
seven year old, and you are just dotting blood into
the little dots and then you put it in an
envelope and you ship it off and you're able to
get your results for perhaps getting being diagnosed with T
(27:48):
one D in the future. And what is so amazing
is that, while I like to think now that we
know a lot about T one D, having just a
little bit more time would have been incredibly helpful to
us and incredibly beneficial. Oh so, could you share more
about that? I mean, I would have. We came home
(28:10):
from the hospital and I was like Amazon priming books.
I was going on TikTok. I was asking every question possible,
because it's not a disease that's like, Okay, you're going
to be waiting a little bit of time. It started
now when he was at the hospital. It started right then.
Our lives changed right then. Miles' life changed right then,
(28:33):
and we wanted to make sure that he would be safe, happy, calm,
and felt like he was surrounded by people that knew
what they were doing. And I'm sorry to tell you, Miles,
at the beginning, we didn't know what we were doing.
But now we do, and it would have meant so
much to be able to have just a few months,
(28:54):
a few weeks to understand what was happening.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, I know that Miles didn't display any symptoms of
T and D beforehand, which is why this screening is
so incredible.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
None. I mean you look online and it's like, oh,
they're urinating a lot. They get a little bit weak
when this happens. He didn't have any of that yet
as a six year old.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
If you could go back and talk to yourself before Miles' diagnosis,
what would you tell that version of you about what
to expect on the road ahead.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh, I would definitely tell myself that don't worry. There's
an amazing group of people that are so beyond ready
to help you with every question you have. Because I
didn't know at that point that so many people would
take us in, like family members, whether they had had
(29:44):
it for thirty years or just six months. Oh my god,
what a warm, welcoming community. I wouldn't have been so
nervous that it was all on me as a mother.
You know, John goes on tour. I realized it me
a little bit of time, but like, oh my gosh,
like technology has come such a long way. We are
(30:06):
all involved in it. We see everything. Our phone's paying
John's phone, my phone, the doctor, everybody. I didn't have
to ever feel like it was just all on my plate.
And then I also would have never imagined that Miles
himself would be able to do so much on his
own and and really take initiative and take control over
his own body and look at me in the eyes
(30:28):
and say like, no, Mama, I'm okay, like this is
what's happening right now. Like I would have never imagined.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
That, how are you doing with the mental load day
to day now? Like, honestly, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Actually, it's my favorite part of life. Honestly, I had
four kids for a reason. I love the chaos of it.
I knew that, you know, it was going to be challenging,
but I live for it every day. And I think John.
I know John does as well. But I will say
(31:00):
I want. Something that made me really really happy to
hear the other day was I was wondering, if you know,
Miles and Luna might not want a lot of kids,
because we are in a family of a lot of kids.
And I remember looking at them and saying when all
the babies were going crazy and they were going crazy
(31:20):
and everybody had the zoomies. I looked down at them
and I said, like, does this make you guys not
want to have kids or have a lot of kids?
And they both said to me, this makes us want
to have a lot of kids. And that made me
really happy, and it made me feel like we were
doing something right and something really special in our household.
And I loved it. A Luna is saying she would
(31:41):
have three right now.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
There is the magic number for Luna. Well, I saw
something on your social the other day that just melted
my heart. It was it was a video of Luna
preparing you and John dinner in her cafe that she
created y'all called the cafe.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, do you remember making a cafe? Day?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
May do that growing up with your cousins or your siblings.
It was as it was a menu everything. But Chrissy,
the caption is what broke me. You said, she is
everything I was as a little girl, only ten million
times better.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Absolutely. Yeah, my ovaries were throbbing. I'm gonna be honest
with you. I was like, I need to have a
million kids. Now we all are John would say the
same thing about Miles too. You look at them and
you're like, oh my god, Like it's hard to take
credit for yourself and be like, oh my god, it's
because of us, because they're surrounded by an incredible group
of people that are so helpful and so wonderful, incredible schools.
(32:40):
Like but yeah, they are like the best parts of us,
without the insecurities and the things that I felt when
I was young, because I grew up in a household
that was a little challenging to navigate because it was
like a little darker and and maybe like had a
little more anger in it. Like I think our household
(33:01):
is really light and fun, and while it has its
moments of challenges, it seems to be really working in
a way that is working for them. And it makes
me so happy to know that they're like really happy.
They're really really happy. We go on vacation and they
(33:22):
can't wait to go home. We John and I come
home from you know, a work trip in New York
City or something, and like we are bombarded with like
all the hugs we could ever dream of, and then
also with the littles that are like no so like
but to me, like, I love that too. That's every
part of growing up. It's all beautiful, it's all amazing,
(33:45):
and it's just been like a yeah, I just I
love I love I love it more than I love
doing anything else. Like it is just built for me.
I love it and I would continue to have more,
but John refuses. You wear motherhood so well and you
make it look so easy.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Chrissy, we like to end every conversation on the bright
side with a moment to shine.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
So I want to ask you, what are you celebrating
right now? Oh my gosh, I'm about to turn forty
and I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It's kind of get a little commotion for forty.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I really like people are like, oh is it like
do oh is it scary? Is it? No? I feel great.
Like on one note, like I literally have been telling
myself I'm about to turn forty for two years, so
like ever since I was thirty, and I was like,
next year's forty. So I don't feel like it's that
old because because I've been telling myself for this for
so long. But also it's just not old, and I
feel great. I feel thirteen years old. I like, aside
(34:45):
from like the cracking of like my bones and things like. Mentally,
I feel very young and excited for life and just
honored to be able to have people listen to me talk,
have people like you want to talk to me, and
to still have a family and get to cook my
(35:06):
favorite recipes and see my husband live his best life,
his dream life. It's like, God, what could be better
than that? What could be better than that? I love
that for you. I am celebrating this community today.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yes, I am celebrating this beautiful community because we wouldn't
be on.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
This stage without you.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
So actually, matter of fact, now that I have you here,
I want to ask you, what are you celebrating right now?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Chris? Anybody one word? What are you celebrating? Joy? Yeah? Joys? Okay?
How about you right here? Yeah? Get birthday? What are
you celebrating over here? One person? Let's go? Yes, yes, sister?
This great? Wait what else? Guys? Come on?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Wait when you say record, Oh my god, first woman
to skateboard across America.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Wow, Wow, this is a celebration. I have chills right now?
Are cool? Wow? Wait? Can I just like just to end?
Can I encourage you all to go to screen for
type one dot com to see first of all incredible
videos of me and Miles, right Miles, but also you
can learn all about screening for type one. We are
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really encouraging everybody to do it because of just how
much it would have helped my family and you guys,
thank you so much for being here. This has really
been special, So thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Thank you so much, Chrissy, Thank you, Santa Fie. And
if you want to hear more conversations like this, come
hang out with me on the bright Side. Okay, I
listen to the bye and night. Thank you everyone, and
enjoy shine away.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Thank everybody.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
The bright Side is a production of Hello Sunshine and
iHeart Podcasts and is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and
me Simone Voice. Production is by Acast Creative Studios. Our
producers are Taylor Williamson, Adrian Bain, Abby Delk, and Darby Masters.
Our production assistant is Joya putnoy A Casts. Executive producers
(37:37):
are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rutter. Maury Ullo and Reese
Witherspoon are the executive producers.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
For Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Ali Ferry and Lauren Hansen are the executive producers for
iHeart Podcasts. Our theme song is by Anna Stump and
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