Chrissy Teigen Stuns Beauty School Student With Tuition Money

“So excited to see you fulfill your dream!” the model wrote in note accompanying a $5,605 donation

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Sans the frosty white beard and belly that jiggles like a bowl full of jelly, Chrissy Teigen has once again played Santa Claus to one of her 5 million Twitter followers. The lucky soul this time is Mercedes Edney, whose beauty school tuition was paid by the model/doer-of-good-deeds.

Edney took to social media last month, starting a crowdfunding to help pay for her esthetician school tuition of $6,000. Her fundraising page brought in enough donations to hold a seat open for her, but she was way under the mark for the full tuition.

Enter her fairy godmother, a.k.a. Chrissy Teigen.

Friday, Edney was notified that a huge donation came in, one that would pay the remainder of the tuition — $5,605.

“I thought it was a glitch,” Edney wrote on her Instagram account. “I then look at my email and realized it came from my fundraiser. @chrissyteigen donated my entire tuition money for school.”

Teigen included a note with the donation that read, “I’ve seen this is your passion for such a long time now. So excited to see you fulfill your dream!”

Edney made a public thank you to her not-so-secret Santa and shared her emotional first day of class on social media.

This wasn’t the first time that Teigen has come to a fan’s rescue. Last July she sent a follower a blender after she mentioned needing one.

Rosemary Rossi

Rosemary joined TheWrap in 2016 after more than two decades covering entertainment for American Media and Bauer Publishing as West Coast Editor and as the Hollywood Correspondent for Australia’s Horowitz Graham Publishing. In addition, she reviewed films and television, sized up trends and penned a weekly tongue-in-cheek column called “Hollywood’s Worst Ideas This Week” for…

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