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.”