Meghan Trainor is firing back at critics who are, once again, targeting her appearance.
Earlier this year, Trainor unveiled a newly slimmed-down figure after losing a reported 60 pounds. In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” that aired Wednesday, the pop star said she’s “never felt better,” even as her body is once again the subject of public scrutiny.
“The world’s getting crazier and meaner and they’re louder,” she said. “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 lose weight, telling E! News in 2022 that she “wasn’t feeling great” following the birth of her son, Riley, via C-section a year earlier.
“I was like, ‘If I can survive a C-section, I can do anything!’” the Grammy winner said at the time. “I was very dedicated and I started seeing the pounds come off like one week at a time, one pound.”
Earlier this year, Trainor publicly acknowledged that both she and her husband, Daryl Sabara, had used the weight loss drug Mounjaro to help shed pounds.
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When she shared photos of herself on the red carpet at the 2025 Baby2Baby Gala in West Hollywood, California, on her social media platforms this week, however, her post drew a variety of divisive comments, with some suggesting she’d become “unrecognizable.”
“Looks like she was trying to look like Paris Hilton. She was always beautiful,” one person wrote on Facebook.
Added another: “How are we 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 new single, “Still Don’t Care,” which will appear on her seventh studio album, “Toy With Me,” due out next year.
The song recalls her 2014 hit, “All About That Bass,” with lyrics that speak 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 in 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.”
Speaking to The Associated Press in an interview published Wednesday, Trainor said she drew directly from the “hate” she’d experienced after losing weight when working on “Still Don’t Care” in 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 explained. “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 below.
