Meghan Trainor and her husband, Daryl Sabara, welcomed their third baby earlier this year, but deciding to use a surrogate wasn’t an easy process.
The pop star, 32, opened up about the decision during an interview on the Thursday, April 9, episode of Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast and shared some of the complicated emotions she felt about the situation.
“It was crazy. There’s a lot of heartbreak and big decision-making to do, and I was struggling with my health and almost towards an autoimmune disease, so there were so many conversations back and forth, and then we were like, ‘The safest way is to do it through a surrogate,’ because also my babies are always sideways,” she explained, noting that her doctors warned her she’d probably need another C-section. “And I was just like, ‘My body’s still not recovered from the other ones.’”
Trainor further explained that “so many factors” led her and Sabara, 33, to choose surrogacy.
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“And I was scared and I was jealous that I wasn’t having my baby,” she added. “My husband’s a control freak too, so every day when we knew she was alive in someone else, we were like, ‘Is she OK?’ You go cuckoo, you go crazy.”
The couple, who tied the knot in 2018, share sons Riley, 5, and Bruce, 2. They welcomed their daughter, Mikey, on January 18.
While Trainor had complicated feelings about surrogacy, she ultimately had a great relationship with the woman who carried Mikey.
“There’s so much that goes into it, but we had an amazing surrogate who was so good to us and texted us everything, and we got to talk all the time,” the “All About That Bass” singer explained. “I was worried I was bugging her too much … and she was just a champ.”
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Trainor said that she has since stayed in touch with the surrogate, who recently texted her that her postpartum recovery had been going well. The Grammy winner, for her part, has been texting the surrogate pictures of Mikey.
While Trainor admitted that the experience of surrogacy was “wild,” she has no regrets about her choice to expand her family that way.
“It was scary, we cried a lot, but it was the best thing for our family,” she explained. “I’ll tell you what’s different is not healing from a C-section with a newborn. That was different. I could be so present with her and with my other kids. I don’t have to worry that they’re jumping on me or I can’t pick them up and be fully present, so that was the good parts, but there were a lot of scary parts.”
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As for her response to social media comments criticizing her decision to use a surrogate, Trainor had a succinct response: “They can suck my ass.”
Trainor previously opened up about why she opted for surrogacy, saying it wasn’t her “first choice” for welcoming her third baby but was the “safest” option for her family.
“I want people to know that surrogacy is just another beautiful way to build a family,” she told People in January. “It’s not something to whisper about or judge. It’s rooted in trust, science, love and teamwork. Every family’s journey looks different, and all of them are extremely valid.”
