MEGHAN TRAINOR made headline news across the world this month when it
emerged her new music video had been altered to make her waist look smaller.
No one was more shocked than the US superstar herself, who approved the clip
without realising and immediately had it replaced with the unedited version.
Opening up about the Photoshop incident for the first time — as she became
guest editor of Bizarre — Meghan told how her devastation made her break
down in tears.
She told me: “I cried so hard that day.
“I called everyone crying.
“It was everywhere.
“I have never yelled at my team and I yelled at them. I was like, ‘Take it
down now!’
“I mean, we all looked at the video so hard.
“I don’t know how many times — yet I didn’t see the waist.
“We are still banging our heads against the wall.
“It looked like a bad job! It wasn’t normal-looking at all.
“It was smaller than a Barbie doll.
“They even made my legs longer.
“Am I smaller than the dancers who dance their whole life? Obviously not.”
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It is no surprise that Meghan was so angry — and quite rightly, too.
The song that shot her to fame in 2014, All About That Bass, had an incredible
message about promoting bodies of all shapes and sizes.
Meghan revealed that she has identified the culprit.
And rather than her female director, it was in fact a man responsible for the
unnecessary editing job.
She said: “I never met the editing guys, but I’ve got names.
“My director was awesome.
“This wasn’t her thing.
“I love her so much I want her to do all these videos.
“I thought these editing guys, or anyone who is doing my photos for a
magazine, would remember the biggest song I ever had.
“They should remember, ‘Let’s not break a rib because she looks great and this
is her message’.
“I got frustrated and sad. I said, ‘Did that corset and tight Spanx not help
enough?’
“I thought I looked amazing. I’ve never looked that good in a video.
“I was like, ‘Is this someone saying I am too big?’”
I salute Meghan’s brave stance.
Far too much airbrushing goes on in the entertainment industry and it can have
a seriously damaging effect on society.
It is a breath of fresh air for someone as famous as Meghan to actually come
out and take this to the forefront.
Harry’s style is down to my teasing
HARRY STYLES recently unveiled his new short hair, below – and Meghan
feels partly responsible for his famous long locks getting the chop.
She said: “I saw him at a party and made fun of his long hair.
“I was like, ‘Did you shower today?’ He was like, ‘No . . . ’
“It was because of me, world – I did that!
“He is so good looking – good for him.
“I’m 50-50 on his short hair and long hair.
“I always tell people I like hairstyles long but you have to be a really cool
dude like Harry to be able to pull that off.”
Kim Kardashian is so klassy
MEGHAN was in awe of these pics of KIM KARDASHIAN at SCOTT
DISICK’s birthday party — but she prefers to party with her sister KHLOE.
She said: “If I pop out two babies and look like that I’d wear that. Good for
her!
“I am too pale to wear that, I’d just blend in with the dress.
“I met Khloe and KOURTENEY at the Billboard Music Awards.
“They were the nicest, chilled people ever.
“It was like they’re not famous at all.
“We were at J-LO’s show and we were at the table and she was
like, ‘Do you want a drink?’
“She made me this really intense tequila drink.
“She shook it up and everything, it took ten minutes.
“My brothers came by and she was like, ‘Do you want some?’
“I met KENDALL and KYLIE JENNER at an EMA show and they
were so cool.
Kendall seems so mature.
“We were flying business class to LA and Kendall was flying solo! How cool is
that, that she was alone?”
That’s what I call the ultimate first world problem.
Night I fell for TV’s Jimmy Fallon
MEGHAN styled out one of the most incredible TV falls ever earlier this
month when she took a tumble at the end of her performance on JIMMY FALLON’s
US chat show.
Even better, she let them air the fall, captured in three shots on the left,
despite going on to film a new version.
She revealed: “They felt so bad for me because it looked so bad that they
turned off the cameras.
“I was like, ‘I’ll get up and I’ll do it again, I’m sorry’. But you could see
in my face that I was shaken up.
“I’ve still got a little bruise. I just put all my weight on one knee.
“I got up and I was numb. Then the next few days I woke up and I was like,
‘Ouch’. I went to Jimmy and I was like, ‘Can I do the fall?’
“He was like, ‘Are you sure? You’re a legend!’ He was so cute, he laid down
next to me. The whole crowd gave me a standing ovation both times.”
Meghan showed me the bruise on her knee – it looked very painful.
I need Becks specs
HE is one of the most famous young men on the planet with two A-list parents
to boot, but Meghan had no idea who BROOKLYN BECKHAM was when she
first met him earlier this month.
It made for a hilariously awkward encounter when she joined him and girlfriend
CHLOE MORETZ on a date at Disneyland.
Meghan said: “I was making fun of him. I was like, ‘What are you famous for?
Are you an actor? Who are you?’
“Girls would keep coming up to him while me and Chloe were sitting eating
pizza.
“They were asking him for a pic and I was like, ‘Me and Chloe are
here, what do you want a pic with him for?!’
“He messed with me and said, ‘Yeah, I acted when I was a kid’. I am so stupid.
I had no idea who his parents were!”
Chloe has recently become Meghan’s BFF so she’ll soon be seeing a lot more of
Brooklyn around the place.
She added: “Brooklyn is a sweetheart.”
And don’t worry Meghan – you’re not the only person struggling to work out
what Brooklyn does.
Op block on Little Mix hit
AFTER spying this picture of LEIGH-ANNE PINNOCK at Thursday’s Maserati
bash at London’s Royal Horticultural Halls, Meghan revealed she was supposed
to duet with LITTLE MIX on their current single Hair before they
roped in SEAN PAUL.
She said: “Leigh-Anne is so perfect, I love her.
“Little Mix wanted me to feature on one of their songs.
“I couldn’t do it though – the timing didn’t work out.
“It was Hair, their new one. I heard that a long time ago and I was like, ‘I
love this song so much’.
“But I was in getting vocal surgery.”
Fried chicken cake a piece of heaven
SOON after Meghan arrived at Bizarre HQ, my good friends at KFC delivered this
outrageous fried chicken CAKE.
She joined me in getting stuck right in and even posted a video of it on
Snapchat captioned “Heaven”.
In disbelief, she said: “What the hell?! You get to eat this? That looks so
amazing.”