Meghan Trainoris getting real about the demands she faces as a pop-star mom.
Last fall, the pop star hit the road for her Timeless Tour, which she tells PEOPLE “was the hardest thing I’ve done in a long time.”
Before going on tour, Trainor, 31, says she got some “great advice” from a pop-star peer:Kelly Clarkson.
“She said, ‘Don’t try to be a Supermom and do everything,'” Trainor — who justteamed up with e.l.f. Cosmeticsfor a makeup collab bundle and will drop a10th-anniversary rerelease of her debut albumTitleon March 28 — recalls of her conversation with Clarkson, 42. “I have no control over myself. So I did everything.”
Kelly Clarkson and Meghan Trainor on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ in April 2024.Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty
Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty
“I have no regrets except, I was sick every day. I got sick three times in two months, so that might be because I tried to do everything. But I had fun, and we got through it,” she says. “There was always a cool adventure and we would try to go out in each city, whether it was an aquarium or a children’s museum or a park a playground, or we went to a zoo one time.”
Because there are so few mothers who take their kids on tour, Trainor says she wishes she had more of a sounding board.
“There is no group chat. I want one,” she says. “I do have a great group chatwith my other mom friends, like Hillary Duff and Mandy Moore and Ashley Tisdale and those friends — that’s a great group chat, but none of them are on tour right now. I’m the one that’s always like, ‘Can’t make it, sorry guys. ‘So I wish I had a touring chat group.”
Meghan Trainior with (from left) son Riley, husband Daryl Sabara and son Barry at home in L.A. on Nov. 19.Diana Koenigsberg
Diana Koenigsberg
Trainor’s tour, which wrapped at L.A.’s Kia Forum in October, was a success — and included a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden in N.Y.C. But the “Made You Look” singer admits she was nervous before she hit the road.
“Going back on the road after eight years of not doing that because of my vocal surgery, the pandemic and then being pregnant for so long and having little babies, it was terrifying,” she says. “I didn’t know if anyone would show up.”
As she celebrates the 10th anniversary ofTitlethis month, Trainor says seeing her hits still connect with fans was heartening.
Meghan Trainor performing her Timeless Tour in Philadelphia in September 2024.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation
“Still seeing the crowds go wild, seeing moms come to my concert with their daughters, or young, sweet, gay boys that are just living their life at my shows in the middle of the aisles, dancing as hard as they can, being their genuine, true self — is the greatest joy I’ll ever have on this planet, besides hanging out with my family,” she says.
Adds Trainor: “It is the coolest thing to see so many young kids that I know are in their awkward phase, just absolutely loving themselves, singing to ‘All About That Bass’ and singing to ‘Me Too’ and loving themselves for a few minutes in the night. That made any hard moment worth it.”
Meghan Trainor performing on her Timeless Tour at Madison Square Garden in October 2024.Rich Fury/MSG
Rich Fury/MSG
But Trainor’s biggest fan is her older son, Riley.
“I’d be fully glammed up, picking boogies, putting diapers on, putting them in their pajamas before a show. My glitter would be leaking on them; I would peel eyelashes off them all the time, but they loved it,” she says. “Nobody misses it more than Riley. Every day he’s like, ‘Can we go back on tour?’ ”
For more on Meghan Trainor, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.
source: people.com