Meghan Trainor reveals why she got breast implants after struggling to 'look at her body'

It wasn’t a matter of if Meghan Trainor was going to get plastic surgery, but when.

The Grammy winner, 31, says she’s been looking forward to getting breast implants since she was a teenager. Trainor remembers getting picked on for having “saggy” and lopsided breasts, and even after rising to success in 2014, those insecurities were only intensified by the spotlight and the “pop star life.” After weight gain during COVID-19 lockdowns, subsequent weight loss, pregnancy and two C-sections, Trainor says: “I got to a place where I hated what was on my chest.”

“It was tough to look at my body,” she says over a mid-afternoon Zoom call. “I’m always singing about loving myself, and it got harder and harder with all the scars and stretch marks. And then after losing weight, too, these boobs were just purely empty, just flat and just felt like skin on my body.”

Trainor was using duct tape to lift her breasts and remembers the discomfort of ripping the tape off after a long, sweaty day of dance rehearsals.

“The duct taping sent me over the edge,” she recalls. “Ripping off the tape and bringing skin with it, it hurt so bad. For this job, I needed better.”

She decided it was finally time to “do something about this,” and getting plastic surgery was a “no brainer.”

After consultations with multiple doctors, she got breast augmentation surgery using the newly FDA-approved Motiva SmoothSilk Ergonomix 290 Mini implants at the beginning of 2025.

The surgery didn’t surprise her family, who she says knew it was her “biggest dream ever.”

Her plastic surgeon, California-based Dr. Payman Danielpour, says breast augmentation is a “very easy operation with minimal downtime and minimal pain, if done in the right hands.”

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, patients should be able to return to normal activities 5 to 7 days after breast augmentation surgery, and most patients fully recover in 4 to 6 weeks. Soreness and swelling may last for a few weeks after surgery, according to Mayo Clinic.

Most of Danielpour’s patients are mothers, like Trainor, seeking to “restore” their natural look post-pregnancy. His goal is to make any alterations as undetectable as possible.

“We’ve wanted to do surgery to keep people guessing,” he says. “There’s a fine line (between) completely changing the way you look versus just doing something for yourself that may either restore things that have changed over the years or help you gain some of the confidence you didn't have because you were born a certain way.”

Trainor says her breasts, after two pregnancies, finally feel like her own. “They feel so natural,” she says.

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Meghan Trainor’s therapist was ‘stoked’ about her plastic surgery

In an Instagram Reel posted on Thursday, she told her fans she couldn’t be happier with her decision and was met with overwhelming support.

“I just love your honesty!” one user commented. “Happy for you and love your transparency!” wrote another.

However, some critiqued the “All About That Bass” singer for “losing the very identity she once preached” and being “swept into” cosmetic surgery.

In 2014, “All About That Bass” was promoted as a body-positive anthem for lyrics like, “Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.”

However, Trainor now says she’s hinted at plastic surgery for years in her lyrics. In her 2020 song “Genetics,” she sings, “You see this face, I was born with it / I ain't ashamed to say one day I might upgrade.”

“Every time I get asked about, like, ‘How are you so confident?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m not,’” Trainor admits. “Writing these songs is just my therapy for trying to love myself more.”

With lyrics like, “If I was you, I’d wanna be me too,” singing them out loud helped her believe it.

“My therapist was like, we have to rewire your brain,” she says. “My confidence got so much better being in these uncomfortable situations, like putting on these outfits and going onstage and singing about my insecurities, but having the crowd sing with me.”

It’s a mission in her life to love her body, especially for her kids (sons Riley, 4, and Barry, 19 months).

“I don’t want them to hear me ever being mean to my body because I don’t want them to do that to themselves,” she says.

Her therapist was “so stoked” after she decided to get breast augmentation surgery.

“That's how I feel we should support women when they're making changes for themselves, instead of, ‘Why are you doing this?’” she says. “This is all about me. This is what I wanted. It had nothing to do with my husband or what anyone else thought. I want to be confident in my clothes and look down when I'm taking a shower and go, ‘Yeah, those are my boobs.’”

Meghan Trainor wants to be a ‘best friend’ to anyone debating cosmetic surgery

Trainor’s friends are all in different life stages — no one else had two pregnancies or C-sections, which left her feeling isolated in her body image struggles. But once she started speaking out about her insecurities, she realized she wasn’t alone. Learning that other people had similar postpartum struggles improved her mental health and helped her “feel more normal.”

And while Trainor encourages anyone considering cosmetic procedures to consult with multiple board-certified surgeons, she wants other moms to know she’s here for them, too.

“If someone out there is alone with their decision and struggling if they want to do it,” she says. “I'll be your best friend and hold your hand and let you know, like, this was the best choice I ever made.”

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