Meghan Trainor is firing again at critics who’re, as soon as once more, concentrating on her look.
Earlier this 12 months, Trainor unveiled a newly slimmed-down determine after dropping a reported 60 kilos. In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” that aired Wednesday, the pop star mentioned she’s “never felt better,” whilst her physique is as soon as once more the topic of public scrutiny.
“The world’s getting crazier and meaner and they’re louder,” she mentioned. “I’m literally for the first time ever, after having babies, taking care of my health to the highest level and I’ve never felt better and I look incredible. I feel great, and that’s when people attack me? I was like, what?”
Trainor has been frank in interviews about her efforts to reduce weight, telling E! Information in 2022 that she “wasn’t feeling great” following the beginning of her son, Riley, by way of C-section a 12 months earlier.
“I was like, ‘If I can survive a C-section, I can do anything!’” the Grammy winner mentioned on the time. “I was very dedicated and I started seeing the pounds come off like one week at a time, one pound.”
Earlier this 12 months, Trainor publicly acknowledged that each she and her husband, Daryl Sabara, had used the load loss drug Mounjaro to assist shed kilos.
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When she shared photographs of herself on the pink carpet on the 2025 Baby2Baby Gala in West Hollywood, California, on her social media platforms this week, nonetheless, her publish drew quite a lot of divisive feedback, with some suggesting she’d change into “unrecognizable.”
“Looks like she was trying to look like Paris Hilton. She was always beautiful,” one individual wrote on Fb.
Added one other: “How are supposed to feel good about ourselves when the people we look up to just want to be thin?”
Trainor returned to the music scene this week with a brand new single, “Still Don’t Care,” which is able to seem on her seventh studio album, “Toy With Me,” due out subsequent 12 months.
The tune remembers her 2014 hit, “All About That Bass,” with lyrics that talk to self-empowerment. “Say I’m doin’ too much, and you’re probably right/That’s the same shit I’ve heard my whole life,” she sings within the new tune. “Said I was too thick, then I got way too thin/And I try to stand out, but I wanna fit in.”
Talking to The Related Press in an interview printed Wednesday, Trainor mentioned she drew immediately from the “hate” she’d skilled after shedding weight when engaged on “Still Don’t Care” within the studio.
“I was seeing a lot of hate all over the world, but I was getting a lot of hate when I started posting more pictures of … my fitness journey and my health journey. And I didn’t really expect that,” she defined. “I would get really upset at comments and I was like, ‘I wish I didn’t feel like this. I wish I didn’t give them so much power.’”
Watch Meghan Trainor’s “Entertainment Tonight” interview beneath.
