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"Hi Linda, thanks for asking, you complete witch."

Isabelle Khoo— The Huffington Post Canada

If you’re going to troll Chrissy Teigen, you better be prepared to get shut down.

On Saturday, the 31-year-old model revealed to Entertainment Tonight that her future second child with husband John Legend would be a boy. To clarify any confusion over how she already knew the sex of her unborn infant, Teigen took to Twitter to explain that she and Legend had previously created a male embryo.

“Since this is coming up again, I said our next baby would be a boy because that is the embryo we have left. A boy. So. Yeah,” she wrote, before adding, “And no, I am not pregnant.”

Unfortunately, one Twitter user was quick to criticize Teigen for using IVF to have a baby, which is also how the model conceived her first child, nine-month-old Luna.

“Did you give it a minute to try naturally or are you avoiding ‘the act?’” wrote Florida teacher Linda Wampler. “At least no political rants!”

In response, Teigen quickly clapped back saying, “Hi Linda, thanks for asking, you complete witch. I tried for about 9 years. Anything else, let me know!”

Teigen has always been vocal about her fertility struggles, so Wampler’s comment must have felt like a slap in the face.

The model first revealed she and her husband were having trouble conceiving in 2015. “We would have had kids five, six years ago if it'd happened. But my gosh, it's been a process,” she said on an episode of “FABLife.”

One month later, Teigen revealed she was expecting her first child.

Before Luna was born in April last year, the mom opened up to SELF magazine about her struggle to get pregnant. “The big question was why this wasn’t working for us when I was young and he was healthy,” she said. “I thought, people get pregnant by accident all the time! How does this happen?”

The couple then decided to try IVF, but it wasn’t an easy journey. “Emotionally, it could be really hard,” she said. “When you have these high-highs and low-lows, and you’re, like, cuckoo pants. You don't want to get your hopes up, but of course, you do.”

Now that baby Luna is here, Teigen and Legend are loving their new roles as mom and dad and are constantly sharing photos of their little one on Instagram.

Last year, the 31-year-old mom gushed to ET: “We're so happy. It's been really exciting and fun, and every day is so different, and seeing all her little changes is so cute.”

Parenthood certainly suits Teigen and Legend, and we can't wait to meet their baby boy in the future!

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Jimmy Fallon(01 of20)

Jimmy Fallon is one of the few celebrity dads to open up about his struggles with infertility. The “Tonight Show” host and his wife Nancy struggled to have a baby for five years before deciding on surrogacy. “We tried before, we told people and then it didn't happen. And it's just really depressing. It's really hard on everybody,” Fallon explained on the “Today Show.” The couple then welcomed their first daughter, Winnie, in 2013 and their second, Frances, in 2014. The couple had both girls via gestational carrier. (credit:Getty)

Brooke Shields(02 of20)

Brooke Shields and husband Chris Henchy underwent IVF to get pregnant. Unfortunately, Shields suffered a miscarriage before conceiving her first child, Rowan, who was born in 2003. The couple then conceived their second child naturally. Grier was born in 2006.That same year, Shields released her memoir “Down Came the Rain” about her struggles with infertility and postpartum depression. “After a while, when you’re not successful, you start to associate the word ‘failure’ every time you pee on a stick and it doesn’t come out the right colour,” she wrote. (credit:Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Chrissy Teigen & John Legend(03 of20)

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend struggled to conceive their daughter, who was born on April 14. Just one month before the couple announced their pregnancy news, Teigen revealed that the couple was having fertility struggles. On talk show “FABLife,” the co-host and model said, “Honestly, John and I are having trouble. We would have kids five, six years ago if it’d happened. But my gosh, it’s been a process!” (credit:Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP)

Jaime King(04 of20)

Following the birth of her first child James in 2013, Jaime King opened up about her struggles to get pregnant. “This is the truth about conceiving my son and struggles after 8 yrs of pain and undiagnosed PCOS [Polycystic ovary syndrome] & Endometriosis,” she wrote. “9 doctors until Dr. Randy Harris diagnosed me & saved my life from a severe ectopic, 5 miscarriages, 5 rounds of IVF, 26 IUI's, most with no outcome, 4½ years of trying to conceive.”Besides James, King and her husband Kyle Newman are also parents to a son named Leo, who was born in 2015. (credit:Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Hugh Jackman(05 of20)

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness have two adopted kids: Oscar, 15 and Ava, 10. While adoption was always part of their parenting plan, they had hoped to have some biological kids first. “Trying to have children is wonderful and when you feel as though that’s not going to happen, there’s a certain anxiety that goes with it,” Jackman said to Australia’s Herald Sun in 2011. The couple tried a few round of IVF before going ahead with their adoption plans. “From the moment we started the adoption process, all the anxiety went away,” the dad-of-two said. “I don't think of them as adopted – they're our children.” (credit:Brendon Thorne via Getty Images)

Mark Zuckerberg(06 of20)

Mark Zuckerberg is now a proud father to a baby girl named Max, who was born in November 2015. However, before the Facebook CEO and his wife Priscilla Chan welcomed their daughter, Zuckerberg revealed the struggles they faced when trying to conceive. “We've been trying to have a child for a couple of years and have had three miscarriages along the way,” the 31-year-old wrote on Facebook. “Most people don't discuss miscarriages because you worry your problems will distance you or reflect upon you -- as if you're defective or did something to cause this. We hope that sharing our experience will give more people the same hope we felt and will help more people feel comfortable sharing their stories as well.” (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick(07 of20)

Sarah Jessica Parker welcomed her first child, James, with husband Matthew Broderick in 2002. When the couple tried to conceive a second child, they experienced a number of difficulties, which is why they decided to go the surrogate route.“It would be odd to have made this choice if I was able to, you know, have successful pregnancies since my son’s birth,” the actress said on “Access Hollywood” in 2009. Later that year, Parker and Broderick welcomed twin girls Marion and Tabitha. (credit:Getty)

Mariah Carey(08 of20)

Mariah Carey experienced a miscarriage before she became pregnant with her twins. Following the loss of her first baby, Carey underwent acupuncture and fertility treatments. In an interview with Barbara Walters, the singer said: “The main thing I did that was tough was to go on progesterone like every month… and then when I was pregnant, I had to stay with the progesterone for 10 weeks. It minimizes the chance of miscarriage by 50 per cent.”Carey and ex-Nick Cannon then became proud parents to twins Moroccan and Monroe in 2011. (credit:Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

Emma Thompson(09 of20)

After Emma Thompson and husband Greg Wise welcomed their daughter Gaia in 1999, the couple struggled to have a second child. After several failed attempts at IVF, Thompson became clinically depressed. “For years I counted people's children in the street and thought I'd never recover,” she said in an interview. “But you do, of course.”Thompson’s husband also opened up about the couple’s struggle to conceive. “IVF is very upsetting,” he said in 2014. “It’s a brutal process and it’s very emotional. It’s really hard. But then you pick yourself up, look around and see this unbelievably beautiful little baby you’ve got anyway.”Thompson and Wise eventually went on to adopt a boy named Tindyebwa, who was a Rwanda orphan and former child soldier. He was 16 years old when they adopted him in 2003. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Angela Bassett & Courtney B. Vance(10 of20)

In 2006, Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance welcomed their twin boys, Bronwyn and Slater, via surrogate. The couple underwent fertility treatments for seven years before considering surrogacy.In 2013, Bassett reflected on her experience. “After trying and trying, I unfortunately couldn’t have my babies,” the actress told JET Magazine. “It was my reality. I heard about the surrogate option and it worked out beautifully. (credit:Getty)

Gordon Ramsay(11 of20)

Gordon Ramsay and his wife struggled to conceive due to his low sperm count. The 49-year-old chef revealed this on his TV series “The ‘F’ Word” and later spoke about it on “Larry King Live” in 2007. “You plan a family, and it doesn't happen naturally. You depend on the IVF,” Ramsay explained. “We had a miscarriage, which was quite a severe blow for our confidence. I had a very low sperm count on the back of standing in the kitchen for that length of time close to the stove. So we went through the motions. It was something we didn't want to hide. I'm far from being embarrassed about it.”Ramsay and his wife Tana now have four kids: Megan, twins Jack and Holly, and Mathilda. (credit:Jason LaVeris via Getty Images)

Courteney Cox & David Arquette(12 of20)

Before Courteney Cox had her daughter Coco with ex-husband David Arquette, she had multiple miscarriages. The “Friends” star previously told People, “I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.” (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Tyra Banks(13 of20)

Tyra Banks became a first-time mom earlier this year when she welcomed baby boy York with boyfriend Erik Asla via gestational surrogate. The former “America’s Next Top Model” host previously revealed that she had undergone IVF treatments, which were unsuccessful. Last September, Banks told People: “I've had some not happy moments with that, very traumatic moments. It's difficult as you get older. It's not something that can just happen.” (credit:Getty)

Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban(14 of20)

Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban welcomed their first child, Sunday Rose, in 2008. Two years later, the couple welcomed their second daughter, Faith, via gestational carrier. After Faith’s birth, Kidman opened about her infertility struggles on Australia’s “60 Minutes.” “Anyone who's been in the place of wanting another child or wanting a child knows the disappointment, the pain and the loss that you go through trying,” the actress said. “We were in a place of desperately wanting another child. I couldn't get pregnant.”Kidman also has two other kids, Isabella and Connor, whom she adopted with Tom Cruise. (credit:C Flanigan via Getty Images)

Tom Arnold(15 of20)

Tom Arnold welcomed a son with wife Ashley Groussman in 2013 after years of trying to have kids. Previously, the actor revealed that he has a low sperm count, which affected many of his past relationships (Arnold has been married three times prior to Groussman). “It is hard on the women,” the actor told People in 2013. “I’ve tried with other people, but since there is a God we were unable to conceive. Now God said, ‘This is it!'”Three-year-old Jax is Arnold and Groussman’s only child. (credit:Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

Elizabeth Banks(16 of20)

After years of unsuccessful attempts at getting pregnant, Elizabeth Banks and husband Max Handelman turned to surrogacy to have kids. “It was frankly the only way for my husband and I, who have been together for nearly 20 years, could have a child that was half him and half me. So, for us, it was absolutely the way to go,” the actress said in 2012.Banks and her husband now have two sons – Felix, 5 and Magnus, 3 – thanks to a gestational carrier. (credit:Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Mark McGrath(17 of20)

After Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath and his wife Carin welcomed twins Hartley and Lydon in 2010, he blogged about his struggles and experience on People.“My fiancée Carin and I tried for about a year and half to have a baby and when the old conventional way didn’t work out (not without Herculean efforts!) we tried IVF and got pregnant on the first try — hence the twins,” he explained. “I find it strange that many high-profile couples are reluctant to say they used IVF, but to each their own I guess. For us, it was a blessing and nothing short of a miracle!” (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Celine Dion & René Angélil(18 of20)

The Canadian singer has been very open about the couple's failed attempts at IVF. When their twins Eddy and Nelson were finally born in 2010, the couple’s first son, René-Charles, was already nine years old. During her second pregnancy with her twins, the songstress described her fertility struggles to People saying, “You know what? We had a miscarriage. We tried three more times. It did not work… We are trying again for the fifth try. It’s aboard right now. All aboard.” (credit:Getty)

Helena Bonham Carter(19 of20)

Helena Bonham Carter and former partner Tim Burton experienced fertility struggles after welcoming their first child, Billy, in 2003. The actress then tried fertility drugs and acupuncture before considering IVF. However, Carter then became pregnant unexpectedly and gave birth to her second child, Nell, in 2007. “I think we might have gone for a round of IVF, but that would have been that,” the actress admitted. “There was an argument for just having one child, because we thought if that’s the way it’s meant to be, so be it.” (credit:Anthony Harvey via Getty Images)

Rod Stewart(20 of20)

Rod Stewart and wife Penny Lancaster struggled for two years to give their son, Alastair, a sibling. The couple saw fertility experts in the U.S. and U.K. and finally conceived after their third round of IVF. The couple’s second son, Aiden, was then born in 2011. Stewart also has six other kids from various relationships. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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