Food writer Alison Roman posts lengthy apology for 'flippant' remarks about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo

• Food writer Alison Roman wrote a formal apology to Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo for her "flippant" remarks about how they built their brands.
• In a Q&A with The New Consumer last week, Roman described how she hoped to grow her band looking forward, and said she hoped not to do it similar to Kondo, who has a popular Netflix documentary about her home-organizing methods, and Teigen, who authored her cookbook and brand "Cravings."
• While Kondo did not respond to Roman's comments, Teigen posted on Twitter that she was "bummed" to hear how Roman felt about her "Cravings" brand, especially given how big of a fan Teigen is of the New York Times food columnist.
• On Monday, Roman posted a lengthy apology on Twitter to Teigen and Kondo for her "flippant" remarks.
• She went on to say she thought a lot over the weekend about her comments, asking herself "Why couldn't I express myself without tearing someone down? I definitely could have, and I'm embarrassed I didn't."
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Food columnist Alison Roman posted a length apology on Twitter for her "flippant" remarks about "Cravings" creator Chrissy Teigen and home-organizing expert Marie Kondo.

In an interview with The New Consumer published last Thursday, Roman described how she hoped to grow her brand, saying she did not want to do it in a similar fashion of Teigen and Kondo.

Roman soon faced backlash for her comments, which seemingly criticized how Teigen and Kondo created their brands in the food and home industry, respectively.

"Like the idea that when Marie Kondo decided to capitalize on her fame and make stuff that you can buy, that is completely antithetical to everything she's ever taught you… I'm like, damn, b----, you fucking just sold out immediately!" Roman said in the Q&A with the publication.

Roman also said what Teigen has done with her "Cravings" brand is "so crazy" to her.

"She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it's just, like, people running a content farm for her," Roman told The New Consumer. "That horrifies me and it's not something that I ever want to do. I don't aspire to that. But like, who's laughing now? Because she's making a ton of f---ing money."

Kondo did not respond to Roman's comments, but Teigen took to Twitter to express her disappointment upon reading Roman's comments, of whom she was a big fan.

"I don't think I've ever been so bummed out by the words of a fellow food-lover," Teigen tweeted. "I just had no idea I was perceived that way, by her especially."

"It has been crappy to deal with this all day but I couldn't not say something," she wrote in a follow-up tweet. "I know the actual tears I put into the work I do and it's really hard to see someone try to completely invalidate it. Someone I really liked."

On Monday, Roman tweeted a formal apology to Teigen and Kondo for using 'their names disparagingly to try and distinguish myself, which I absolutely do not have an excuse for.'

"It was stupid, careless and insensitive," the food writer wrote. "I need to learn, and respect, the difference between being unfiltered and honest vs. being uneducated and flippant."

Roman went on to say she thought a lot over the weekend about her comments, asking herself "Why couldn't I express myself without tearing someone down? I definitely could have, and I'm embarrassed I didn't."

"I'm not the victim here, and my insecurities don't excuse this behavior," she continued. "I'm a white woman who has and will continue to benefit from white privilege and I recognize that makes what I said even more inexcusable and harmful."

"The fact that it didn't occur to me that I had singled out two Asian women is one hundred percent a function of my privilege (being blind to racial insensitivities is a discriminatory luxury). I know that our culture frequently goes after women, especially women of color, and I'm ashamed to have contributed to that."

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