Since she began documenting her fitness journey and weight loss earlier this year, Meghan Trainor has unfortunately faced mixed reactions online.
Bryan Steffy / Getty Images
Meghan — who shares two young kids with her husband, Daryl Sabara — has talked openly about using Mounjaro to lose weight, getting into strength training, and working closely with a dietician to improve her health.
Related: 19 Celebrities Who Were So Disrespectful In Public, It Was Embarrassing
In May, Meghan sparked backlash from several fans after changing the lyrics of her famous 2014 body-loving hit “All About That Bass” during a performance. Instead of singing “I ain’t no size two,” she said, “I got some new boobs,” referring to her breast augmentation.
Maya Dehlin Spach / Getty Images
One popular TikTok comment under the video of Meghan’s lyric change read, “‘Big is beautiful until you’re rich enough to change it.’ — story of the entertainment industry.” Another person said, “She has every right to change and nobody is hating on her. But because her body was a little more relatable it hit with a specific audience. Now it doesn’t hit the same. No shade just is what it is.”
“As someone who was not a size 2 when I first heard this song when I was like 13, for her to change the lyrics just feels hypocritical to me? Like I’m glad she feels good in her body and you know taking [Mounjaro] helped her do that but like…man idk,” someone else wrote on Reddit.
Recently, Meghan addressed the chatter around her appearance and weight loss on her new single, “Still Don’t Care.” She sings, “You could say what you want, say I’m so hard to like / You could tear me apart, but I sleep well at night / Say I’m doin’ too much, and you’re probably right / That’s the same shit I’ve heard my whole life,” before directly quoting some of the negative comments she’s received: “Said I was too thick, then I got way too thin / And I try to stand out, but I wanna fit in / ‘You’re a little too loud,’ ‘stretch marks on your skin’ / ‘Can’t believe you’re still here, girl, where have you been?’”
Rich Polk / Getty Images
Advertisement
Advertisement
As the song was released, Meghan opened up further about the criticism she’s faced, telling Entertainment Tonight, “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. I look incredible. I feel great. And that’s when people attack me? I was like, ‘Wait a second. I’m taking care of myself. You don’t like it? OK, so what am I supposed to do?’”
Related: 8 MAGA Celebrities Who Have Turned On Trump Over His Handling Of The Epstein Files
She added, “‘All About That Bass,’ I didn’t believe that when I wrote it. It [was] like, ‘I can’t wait to actually believe this one day’ when I perform it 100 times.’”
Now, Meghan has discussed the negative response to her weight loss in more detail. Speaking with iHeartRadio’s Kayla Thomas on November 14, Meghan responded directly to people who think she’s now contradicting the body-loving message of “All About That Bass.”
“I’m getting a lot of hate online just posting who I am. Everyone’s just being like, ‘Why are you thin now? You were ‘All About That Bass’ girl,’” she said, recalling her thought process before she wrote “Still Don’t Care.”
“I was 19 when I came out with that song, and I’ve been on a fitness journey since I got healthy,” she shared. “It started when I was pregnant. I had gestational diabetes. I was like, ‘Oh, I gotta learn about health and fitness. If I wanna tour forever, I wanna be at my strongest. If I wanna lift up my kids from their crib and not pull out my back.’”
Advertisement
Advertisement
“So now I’m strength training three times a week in the gym and I am so focused on health,” she said, adding that she’s “obsessed” with keeping her hormones and gut healthy in order to feel her best.
“But I got a lot of hate for being thinner. That confused me, rattled me, so I wrote the song ‘Still Don’t Care,’” she said.
Meghan added that writing the lyrics of the new song was like a “bad therapy session,” noting that it was “super tough” and “mentally depleting” to be “hated” for losing weight.
Related: 29 Terrible Costars Whose Bad On-Set Behavior Ranged From Petulant To Genuinely Illegal
Elsewhere during the interview, Meghan was asked to share the first person she played “Still Don’t Care” to and how they reacted, to which she replied, “My husband, and he was sad…He was just like, ‘Oh! Tough one.’”
Robin L Marshall / Getty Images
Also in Celebrity: People Are Sharing The “Uncancellable” Celebrities They Could Literally Never Hate — And I’d Be Shocked If You Disagree
Also in Celebrity: 13 Times Celebrities *Allegedly* Faked A Romance To Promote A Movie, Show, Or Project
Also in Celebrity: Andrew Garfield Had The Most Gracious Response To Jacob Elordi Replacing Him In The Upcoming “Frankenstein” Movie, And It’s A Valuable Lesson