Meghan Trainor’s skinny-shaming led to new single, Still Don’t Care

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There is fat shame, and there is thin shame.

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Just ask All About That Bass hitmaker Meghan Trainor, who was targeted by both.

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“Man, this is crazy,” Trainor, 31, told Entertainment Tonight.

“I'm literally – for the first time since having kids – taking care of my health at the highest level, and I've never felt better and I look incredible. I feel great. And then people attack me?”

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Trainor has been an open book about losing weight this year, a journey that includes strength training, healthy eating and the diabetes drug Munjaro.

“I thought, 'Wait a minute, I'll take care of myself.' Don't you like it? Fine. So what should I do?'” Trainor added. “I need to find a way to not let this affect me.”

Medical diagnosis made her focus

Trainor's new album play with meincludes the single Still Don't Care, in which she sings, “They said I was too fat, then I got too thin / And I'm trying to stand out, but I want to fit in.”

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Trainor said it was the diagnosis of gestational diabetes that made her focus on her health.

She and her husband have two small children. Daryl Sabara.

“Everyone's just like, 'Why are you skinny now?' You were all about that bass player,” she told 102.7 KIIS-FM.

“I was like, 'I was 19 when I released this song,' and I was on a fitness journey. It started because I was pregnant, I had gestational diabetes. And I was like, 'I need to learn about health and fitness.' If I want to tour forever, I have to be on top – [also] if I want to lift my children out of the crib and not pull myself behind my back.”

“Still,” Trainor said, “I had to inspire myself.”

“I got a lot of hate for losing weight, so it confused me and scared me. So I wrote the song Still Don't Care,” she said.

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“I do [care]. But I use songs like this to express how I think about the future, like “All About That Bass.”

“Mentally draining” to be hated

She told iHeartRadio that writing the lyrics to the new song was like a “bad therapy session,” noting that it was “really hard” and “mentally draining” to be “hated” for losing weight.

The first person she played “Still Don't Care” for was “my husband, and he was sad… He was just like, 'Oh!' Cool person,” she told iHeartRadio.

Her nutritionist-created diet plan, which included cutting out gluten and dairy for five months, “fixed a lot of things,” she told Entertainment Tonight, explaining that she has “leaky gut” as well as irritable bowel syndrome.

In a March Instagram post, Trainor said she started using Munjaro after her second pregnancy with 2-year-old Barry: “I'm so glad I did it because I feel great.”

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