Chrissy Teigen Explores Family Lore About Jewish Ancestry | Finding Your Roots

In this heartfelt clip from PBS's Finding Your Roots, Chrissy Teigen explores a long-held belief that her grandmother, Ruth Helen Schaer, was Jewish. Host Henry Louis Gates Jr. investigates the story using historical records and DNA analysis. The surprising results reveal that Chrissy’s family story doesn’t match the science, showing zero Jewish ancestry in her father’s DNA.
Chrissy reflects on the pride she felt in the idea of being Jewish and embraces the humor and warmth of the journey, even in the face of unexpected results.
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For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.

[@cornishpasty4344]

You can be Jewish but not by ethnicity... ? Are people this ignorant?

[@CitizenTurtleIsland]

Oh man... really????? The clear implication was Jewish ancestry. And that is something different. For example, Bryant Gumbel (remember him?), part Jewish by descent. Sammy Davis Jr? As far as I or anyone knows, 0% Jewish ancestry but he embraced that religion and practised it.

She is making idiocy a global phenomenon. I will never understand how she found a decent husband.

[@ddoubleu170]

She’s beautiful, obviously lucky (as she’s been relatively successful in an industry with hundreds of thousands of beautiful women), and I believe she’s a little domestic (she cooks and stuff.
Men don’t need much. I hope you know that. This pretty much the trifecta for them. If they were poor she would have to clean, but we know they’re not, so…

[@Natasha-oz6ik]

They will marry anything but….

[@70najash]

Am wondering why you didn’t talk about her Roma DNA

[@Simsrockslol]

The family is Romani

[@TankDogg-bm7es]

Isn't it weird how it gets swept under the rug that her and her husband were proven to be involved in trafficking.

[@pollyannaprinciple5860]

My friend and his wife volunteer to direct the traffic at the school crossing for their children's school as well. They had to wear an orange vest and were given a whistle. I'm surprised Chrissy and her husband would do that with their busy schedules.

[@Natasha-oz6ik]

@@pollyannaprinciple5860 lol

[@kbanghart]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@RoseRaines]

Is Teigen still bullying teenage girls? Just not publicly anymore? Asking for a friend.

[@Spiderplant1185]

Yeah, I am more concerned about rapists being president than celebrities being petty.

[@chacha59]

Grow up

[@LeeEberle]

The FED'S should be knocking on Teigen's door soon. 🍕🍕🍕

[@pollyannaprinciple5860]

I thought she was already donating money to feed the poor. She has fed many a people through her generosity; yet, they are still knocking on her door.

[@RobertaEugene-th3pw]

Because she's not Jewish?