Chrissy Teigen on Meghan Markle Friendship, If Youngsters Have Playdates (Unique)

Chrissy Teigen has a good friend in Meghan Markle.

Talking solely with PEOPLE about her advocacy for kind 1 diabetes testing at Howdy Sunshine‘s Shine Away occasion on Saturday, Oct. 11, the 39-year-old mannequin recalled making an look on season 2 of the Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix collection, With Love, Meghan, and their friendship since.

“I am keen on her,” Teigen stated of Meghan, 44. “I actually adore her. I believe she is so extremely sturdy.”

“It’s insane to me how polarizing she is for therefore many alternative individuals, when she actually is simply such a form, good particular person that wishes the very best for all her pals and the very best for individuals round her, and the very best for her personal relationship and for her kids,” she added.

Teigen advised PEOPLE that none of Meghan’s “polarizing” actions have been made for public notion. Based on her, the Duchess of Sussex simply “[lives] merely.”

“She simply desires these issues,” Teigen defined. “And folks give you all these various things that she may very well be about or what she desires, … [but] it is not that sophisticated.”

“Individuals are at all times going to learn into what they wish to learn into, and they’ll hyperfocus into what they wish to imagine,” she added.

Teigen — who appeared on the occasion as a spokesperson for Sanofi, an organization that created the primary telehealth-enabled platform to request kind 1 diabetes screening — additionally acknowledged that it doesn’t matter what, “Individuals are simply going to give you their very own story.”

“I believe it is cool that [Meghan] is rather like, ‘Pay attention, say no matter you need. I am completely satisfied and I am wholesome and I really feel good,’ ” she continued.

When requested if she and her husband John Legend manage play dates for his or her children — daughters Luna, 9, and Esti, 2, plus sons Miles, 7, and Wren, 2 — with Meghan and Prince Harry‘s two kids, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, Teigen joked that whereas it will be a enjoyable get-together, she does not “depart the home.”

“I am not joking,” she added to PEOPLE with fun. “I do not go wherever. I attempt to do each photograph shoot, each every thing at our home. So no. But when the time got here up, completely.”

Teigen’s advocacy for diabetes care and early screening comes after son Miles’ analysis with the illness.

“We’re so fortunate to have had Sanofi interact us in having the ability to speak about early detection and early screening for T1D, as a result of it itself created a neighborhood — the place we felt like we had those that genuinely cared in regards to the questions that we had,” the mother of 4 advised PEOPLE. “And we had a variety of them.”

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“When Miles was first recognized, we had been actually scared, we had been actually nervous,” Teigen added. “I in all probability performed it actually cool, simply because I am used to a variety of chaotic issues occurring on a regular basis, however I had no thought how a lot I must be taught, how shortly.”

Based on Teigen, having the ability to study early detection and screening for kind 1 diabetes “means loads to me, as a result of I understand how a lot it will have meant to have a couple of further months, or weeks even, as a substitute of being utterly thrown into one thing that you simply had no thought about.”

“To have the ability to construct the neighborhood that we have discovered round it earlier would have been actually fantastic, as a result of that occurred so quick for us as effectively,” she continued. “Folks had been like, ‘Now we have assist for you. We all know all the following pointers and methods for every thing.’ We did not have these issues in our arsenal. These weren’t issues we had bought but. It simply would assist a lot.”