The pop star responds to criticism for her unrecognizable transformation: I look incredible

Meghan Trainor responds to critics who, once again, target her appearance.

Earlier this year, Trainor unveiled a newly slimmed-down figure after losing 60 pounds. In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” that aired Wednesday, the pop star said she’s “never felt better,” even as her body once again comes under public scrutiny.

“The world is getting crazier and crueler and they are making more noise,” he said. “Literally, for the first time in my life, after having babies, I take care of my health at the highest level and I have never felt better and I look amazing. I feel great, and that’s when people attack me? I was like, what?”

Trainor has been candid in interviews about her weight loss efforts, telling E! News in 2022 that she was “not feeling very well” after the birth of her son, Riley, via C-section a year earlier.

“I thought, ‘If I can survive a C-section, I can do anything!’” the Grammy winner said at the time. “I was very dedicated and I began to see how I lost kilos week by week, half a kilo.”

Earlier this year, Trainor publicly acknowledged that both she and her husband, Daryl Sabara, had used the weight loss drug Mounjaro to help lose weight.

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However, 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, her post sparked a variety of divisive comments, with some suggesting she had become “unrecognizable.”

“Looks like she was trying to look like Paris Hilton. She was always beautiful,” one person wrote on Facebook.

Another added: “How are we supposed to feel good about ourselves when the people we admire 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 is reminiscent of her 2014 hit, “All About That Bass,” with lyrics about self-empowerment. “Say I’m doing too much and you’re probably right/That’s the same shit I’ve heard my whole life,” he sings on the new tune. “I said I was too thick, then I got too thin/And I try to stand out, but I want to fit in.”

In an interview with The News published Wednesday, Trainor said he was directly inspired by the “hate” he had experienced after losing weight while working on “Still Don’t Care” in the studio.

“I was seeing a lot of hate around the world, but I got a lot of hate when I started posting more photos of… my fitness journey and my health journey. And I really wasn’t expecting that,” she explained. “The comments bothered me a lot and I thought, ‘I wish I didn’t feel that way. I wish I hadn’t given them so much power.'”

Watch Meghan Trainor’s interview on “Entertainment Tonight” below.

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