“It made me happy to see this over the top story done from so many angles, some I could totally understand because of my own confusing Asian American upbringing,” Teigen, who is of Thai descent, wrote in the emotional post. The model and cookbook author shared an emotional post on Instagram to explain why the film, which has an all-Asian cast, meant so much to her family. “You never know how much you miss being represented on screen until you actually see what it’s like to be represented,” she said. When main character Rachel Chu’s mother, Kerry Chu, appeared on screen, Teigen said her daughter Luna yelled “yāy,” (“Grandma” in Thai), “because she saw someone who looked like her yāy. And when one social media user criticized Teigen for not acknowledging her white side, she had a sharp response:

Source: Huffington Post August 27, 2018 16:18 UTC