Life throws its share of curve balls, however John Legend says he is received the right individual in his nook to face them with.
The star, 45, who simply launched his new household album My Favorite Dream, opens as much as PEOPLE on this week’s problem about his 6-year-old son Miles’ current Sort 1 diabetes prognosis, and the way he and spouse Chrissy Teigen, 38, come collectively within the midst of trials.
It began with summer time camp, the place “actually 80% of the youngsters received the identical abdomen bug inside a day or two of one another,” explains Legend when Miles first felt ailing. “I keep in mind he was on the emergency room due to it they usually checked his blood sugar. The considering was, this can be a response to the an infection or he could also be diabetic. They did some extra exams and determined it was the latter, that he was Sort 1 diabetic.”
The information got here as a shock to the entire household. “Chrissy was upset slightly bit when she first heard it,” he says of his spouse’s pure response to the prognosis. Teigen confirmed the prognosis shortly after posting a photograph exhibiting Miles carrying an insulin monitor in the course of the household’s current go to to Paris for the Olympics. Says Legend, “She’s been so good at studying what she must do.”
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For his half, “My character is one the place I am very optimistic and I am very sensible. As quickly as I discovered that he had this I knew it was going to be life-changing for him and for us, however I am additionally like, ‘We are able to do that.’ We have got nice recommendation and plenty of folks providing assist to assist us study.”
They’ve additionally received one another, which Legend says is their biggest asset in troublesome occasions. “This speaks to us feeling like a staff,” he says of Chrissy, “and understanding we will do that collectively. It simply makes us stronger.”
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As for a way Miles is doing now, “He is early in his prognosis, and if you’re early, your insulin continues to be doing among the work that it must do,” explains Legend. “However because the illness progresses, it is going to get to some extent the place we actually want to observe every little thing, depend carbs, give him insulin beforehand. We simply should be extra conscious.”
Going through the various highs and lows of parenting, like when the pair suffered a painful being pregnant loss again in 2020, has solely strengthened Legend and Teigen’s bond. “Parenting makes us really feel like we’ve got a joint venture collectively,” he says of elevating Miles, alongside together with his sisters Luna, 8, Esti, 19 months and brother Wren, 14 months. “Creating the life we would like for them, coordinating with one another, we actually really feel like a staff.”
For extra on John Legend, choose up this week’s problem of PEOPLE, on newsstands in all places Friday.
Legend’s new album My Favorite Dream is offered now.
