Meet Fishy Teigen.
Fishy is one of the newest rescue seal pups being cared for by the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre, and was named as a playful nod to supermodel and social media star Chrissy Teigen.
@vanaqua/Twitter
The thing about this sweet little patient is that this is one seal pup who might not be considered conventionally cute - although to be fair, seal pups are straight up cute by default.
The Vancouver Aquarium took to Twitter Monday to try to nab the real Teigen's attention, adding in a bit of a mea culpa:
"Good morning @chrissyteigen! We’ve named our newest rescue centre pup patient “Fishy Teigen” in your honour. Please don’t hate us, it is meant to be a tribute (however poorly executed)."
Good morning @chrissyteigen! We’ve named our newest rescue centre pup patient “Fishy Teigen” in your honour.
Please don’t hate us, it is meant to be a tribute (however poorly executed). pic.twitter.com/lEbAs0GFzU
— Vancouver Aquarium (@vanaqua) July 22, 2019
The Aquarium names their rescues on a different theme each year, like gemstones, B.C. geography, or this year's celebri-puns. That's how they ended up with a Meghan Mackerel, a Swim Shady, and a Seal-ine Dion, and now a Fishy Teigen.
Fishy Teigen. @vanaqua/Twitter
So far, Teigen hasn't responded to the Aquarium on Twitter about the honour, though many fans seem to think she'd be pretty cool with the tribute.
