Teigen told PEOPLE that none of Meghan's "polarizing" actions have been made for public perception. According to her, the Duchess of Sussex just "[lives] simply."
"She just wants those things," Teigen explained. "And people come up with all these different things that she could be about or what she wants, ... [but] it's not that complicated."
"People are always going to read into what they want to read into, and they're going to hyperfocus into what they want to believe," she added.
Teigen — who appeared at the event as a spokesperson for Sanofi, a company that created the first telehealth-enabled platform to request type 1 diabetes screening — also acknowledged that no matter what, "People are just going to come up with their own story."
"I think it's cool that [Meghan] is just like, 'Listen, say whatever you want. I'm happy and I'm healthy and I feel good,' " she continued.
When asked if she and her husband John Legend organize play dates for their kids — daughters Luna, 9, and Esti, 2, plus sons Miles, 7, and Wren, 2 — with Meghan and Prince Harry's two children, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, Teigen joked that while it would be a fun get-together, she doesn't "leave the house."
"I'm not joking," she added to PEOPLE with a laugh. "I don't go anywhere. I try to do every photo shoot, every everything at our house. So no. But if the time came up, absolutely."
