The singer Meghan Trainor has welcomed her third child with Daryl Sabara via a surrogate.
The pop star and Spy Kids actor welcomed Mikey Moon to the world on January 18. This news, though, has been met with an onslaught of hate online, as social media users have criticized her use of a surrogate.
Newsweek has contacted a representative for Trainor outside of normal working hours for comment.
Why It Matters
Over the past year, Trainor has faced a significant amount of backlash online. The singer, now 32, won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2016, and throughout her career, her music has been associated with themes of female empowerment and body positivity. This is in part thanks to her 2014 breakout hit All About That Bass. That song features the lyric, “My mama she told me don’t worry about your size, she says boys like a little more booty to hold at night, I won’t be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll.”
In March of 2025, Trainor announced on Instagram through a paid partnership with Motiva USA that she had undergone a “breast lift and augmentation.” She has also spoken publicly about using the weight-loss drug Mounjaro.
Following her breast surgery, Trainor changed the lyrics to her body positivity anthem, All About That Bass while performing at iHeartRadio’s KIIS-FM 2025 Wango Tango event. Instead of singing the line “Yeah, it’s pretty clear, I ain’t no size two,” to be “Yeah, it’s pretty clear, I got some new boobs.”
Trainor’s changes to her music and her choices have sparked criticism from her fans, who have considered this to be a shift away from the values she was promoting at the beginning of her career.
What To Know
Female celebrities using surrogates is something that has become ripe for backlash online. It is a complicated and contentious issue, some of the criticism stemming from a belief that LGBTQ+ people should not be able to have children via surrogates, and others arguing that celebrities are only able to access surrogacy because of their financial means, and that the wish to use a surrogate is one that stems from vanity.
Irrespective of how the Internet responds, childbirth and the choices around this are sensitive and personal ones.
Trainor spoke to People about her decision to use a surrogate, and said, “It wasn’t our first choice, but we had endless conversations with our doctors on this journey, and this was the safest way for us to be able to continue growing our family.”
She told the outlet, “We are forever grateful for that option.”
Despite her remarks on the matter, there has been an onslaught of criticism, though a large portion of the criticism has been directed at the issue of surrogacy as a whole.
One post on X from the social media user @jaempilled read “Coming out as anti surrogacy,” and was viewed 1.3 million times. Another post from the social media user @NerdeenKiswani, viewed 1.2 million times, “When someone says surrogacy was the “safest option,” what they usually mean is safest for them. That word is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Pregnancy doesn’t become safe, it just gets transferred to a poorer woman whose risk is treated as acceptable.”
Though the majority of this criticism has come from social media users, one British politician chose to weigh in. Jonathan Hinder, a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, wrote on X, “What about the woman whose womb you rented? What about the child, taken away from its mother at birth?”
In the image Trainor shared to Instagram, she and the baby were skin to skin. This has also prompted backlash online. Social media user @thegenesisbl0ck wrote, “These skin-to-skin pictures are so performative and fake. If you didn’t birth a baby, it’s not your baby. I’m sorry, but you can’t convince me otherwise,” in a post viewed over 9 million times.
Some social media users moved to defend this though. @facetedcarapace wrote on X in a post viewed 4.7 million times, “Apart from the ethics of surrogacy which seem fraught, if we have decided legally and societally that this practice will occur, the person who is going to be caring for the baby should be doing skin to skin contact. It’s medical, not performative.”
What People Are Saying
Writer and content creator, Jamila Bell wrote on X: “I have conflicting thoughts about surrogacy. But I want y’all to stop making a big deal out of skin to skin lol. This is 100% for the health & thriving outcome of the baby. Sometimes if there are babies with no parents there, even nurses will step in to do skin to skin.”
Social media user @hluebucks, in a post on X viewed over 250,000 times: “surrogacy is evil af. no idc if you’re infertile no idc if you’re gay.”
Social media user @N1NETy6s, in a post on X viewed over 960,000 times on X: “we really need to have a conversation about how surrogacy is exploitation by rich people.”
What Happens Next?
The discourse and backlash online reflect the contentious nature of conversations surrounding surrogacy, and that is something that is likely to continue in online spaces.
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