Todd Chrisley has defended his pregnant daughter Savannah against online body-shamers, revealing she nearly skipped showing her baby bump at a high-profile Halloween party due to severe self-consciousness.
The reality star, 56, made the emotional disclosure during Wednesday’s episode of his podcast with wife Julie Chrisley, explaining that Savannah, 29, was terrified of criticism before attending this year’s annual Halloween celebration at Mar-a-Lago. He said she initially wanted a costume that would completely hide her pregnancy, telling him, “I’m just big, I’m big.”
Chrisley said he pushed back hard against that instinct. “I said, embrace your baby, embrace your bump, you didn’t know you were gonna have one. You were worried about not having one,” he recounted on the podcast. He added his own firm advice: “Embrace your bump, and I say, don’t ever let him think that you are trying to hide anything.”
The father of five grew visibly emotional describing what happened when a costume designer placed butterflies across Savannah’s exposed stomach as part of her nature-inspired ensemble. “Someone walked in… and they said, ‘You are gorgeous.’ And she looked at me, and her eyes filled up with tears, and she says, ‘I’m gonna be fine. I’m good. And you were right,'” he shared.
The gown itself featured a bedazzled design with green crystal leaves and a midsection cut-out that put her bare belly on full display, topped with a sweeping updo hairstyle.
Chrisley directed sharp words at the critics who had previously attacked Savannah’s appearance without knowing she was expecting. “She said, ‘I’m just big, I’m big.’ And to all of you hating b—-es out there that was saying negative stuff about her gaining weight in her face, I hope you feel good now to know that you were shaming a pregnant woman,” he fired back on the podcast. “So, that’s what you get for running that mouth without knowing what’s going on.”
Savannah is currently expecting her first child, a boy, with husband Jason Galanis, 56. She shocked followers in late October when she revealed both her secret marriage and her pregnancy; the couple had wed in July in the Cayman Islands after roughly one year of dating. She announced the news via Instagram on October 27, pairing a photo post showing her growing bump with a coordinating podcast episode.
Galanis carries significant legal baggage from before his relationship with Savannah. He was previously convicted in multiple financial fraud schemes, including a $60 million scam targeting South Dakota’s Oglala Sioux tribe, and earned the tabloid nickname “Porn’s New King.” He served time at Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola, Florida, where his incarceration overlapped with Todd Chrisley’s own sentence, before receiving a commutation from President Donald Trump in March 2025 with no public explanation provided.
The Chrisley family has seen its own recent legal reversals. Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted in 2022 of conspiring to commit bank fraud and evade taxes, but Trump pardoned them in May 2025. Savannah has not publicly shared her due date.
Savannah’s Halloween costume moment at Mar-a-Lago came after months of private anxiety about her changing body, according to her father’s account. The positive reaction from a stranger at the party appeared to shift her perspective in real time, with Chrisley presenting it as a hard-won victory over both her own insecurities and the anonymous critics who had fueled them.
