Last weekend, Meghan Trainor stunned fans when she made an appearance at Kris Jenner’s birthday party looking unrecognizable to many.
The “Made You Look” singer, 31, rose to fame with a curvy figure and high-volume body positivity.
“I ain’t no size two but I can shake it … I’m bringing booty back,” she belted in her 2014 hit “All About That Bass.”
But, at the Jenner soiree, Trainor’s curves were notably turned down. Instead, she looked strikingly streamlined in a black velvet column dress and fitted red jacket, her once full face defined by strict angles and hollows.
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From Ariana Grande and Amy Schumer to Trainor and Mandy Moore, some of the biggest names in entertainment are suddenly looking smaller than ever. In the age of Ozempic, being stick-thin is easier than ever — but it’s also more expected, insiders say.
“Body shapes used to be unique — now, it’s back to the lollipop bodies and Kardashian faces,” Monique Lewis, a celebrity publicist and media consultant, told Page Six.
Some female stars have been candid about their use of Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications, so much so that their openness has been framed as the next frontier in body positivity.
“No, I don’t look like I did 10 years ago. I’ve been on a journey to be the healthiest, strongest version of myself for my kids and for me,” Trainor wrote in an Instagram post in March, noting that she used weight-loss medication after her second pregnancy. “Shoutout to Mounjaro!”
But is the new skinny really an empowering advancement, or is it just a medically induced twist on the same old Hollywood standards of beauty?
Lewis sees it as a step back from the size inclusivity we saw in the previous decade, when Ashley Graham became the first plus-size model to make the cover of SI Swim and Lizzo first rose to fame.
Now, Lizzo has experimented with GLP-1s and slimmed down, and a number of formerly mid-sized stars have gotten tiny.
“Every time I see a casting now, they’re looking for someone who is between a size 4 and 8 — no larger than 10,” Lewis said. “We worked so hard to get away from that, and we’re right back where we were.”
Days after Trainor partied with the Kardashians, Schumer, 44, showed off a dramatic weight loss, deleting all of her old photos on Instagram and posting just four recent photos of herself in a red mini dress that flaunted her long legs.
“I’m feeling good and happy. Deleted my old pics for no reason!” Schumer announced in the post that garnered mixed reactions.
The “Inside Amy Schumer” comic has long been known for her candor around her looks and she was adamant about refusing retouching on her 2018 film “I Feel Pretty.”
More recently, she’s opened up both about her struggle with the hormone disorder Cushing syndrome and perimenopause — both of which can cause weight gain — and her use of Mounjaro.
Still, Schumer shut down the narrative that she deleted all of her pre-weight loss photos because she didn’t like how she looked, and instead, drummed it up to her personal health and wellbeing.
“I’m proud of how I’ve looked always,” she wrote. “I have been working to be pain free and I finally am. My endometriosis is better. My back is healing. I no longer have Cushing syndrome so my face went back to normal.”
Image consultant and celebrity stylist Amanda Sanders told Page Six there’s something novel and seemingly healthy about how famous women are talking about abut their bodies and weight loss.
“There’s an admittance to it — where there wasn’t before, which I find refreshing. At least people aren’t saying, ‘oh it’s all diet and exercise,’” she said.
Not everyone is so open.
In the 2010s, Mindy Kaling flaunted her size 8-to-10 figure in brightly colored frocks and told Vogue, “I’m always trying to lose 15 pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny.”
But, in recent years, she’s thinned down dramatically, a transformation she’s attributed to eating less and exercising more — not medication.
Meanwhile, much has been made of how different Ariana Grande looks in recent years making and promoting “Wicked” compared to 2018, when she had a fuller face and figure and was engaged to Pete Davidson.
The actress, however, addressed her appearance while filming the musical hit in April, 2023.
“The body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body,” the star said, noting she was on “a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly.”
“[I was] at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy, but that in fact wasn’t my healthy.”
Sanders notes that many of the shrinking stars were never that large to begin with.
“None of these people were at a weight that wasn’t unhealthy — they might have been 8’s, 10’s, 12’s but that’s the standard in most America, not Hollywood,” she said.
It’s not just weight — and in some cases, weight-loss meds — that have become a big talking point. Stars are also chatting about plastic surgery like never before, and getting cool-girl cred for doing so.
Kylie Jenner was once secretive about her cosmetic procedures, notoriously not giving lip service to lip filler rumors around 2015. But, earlier this year, the Khy founder replied to a fan on to TikTok when asked about the details of her breast augmentation. “445 cc, moderate profile, half under the muscle!!! Silicone!!! [Doctor] Garth Fisher!!! Hope this helps lol,” she wrote.
In a recent New Yorker piece, Jennifer Lawrence talked about how’s she’s had Botox, avoids filler and is planning to soon get a boob job in preparation for a nude scene she’s filming this spring.
“Everything bounced back, pretty much, after the first [kid],” the mother-of-two and “Die My Love” star said. “Second [kid], nothing bounced back.”
There’s also the fact that rapid weight-loss from medications is now necessitating more cosmetic procedures to deal with sagging skin.
“All those people who lost weight on the weight loss drugs are now sagging, and they’re coming for treatments that tighten the skin,” New York City-based celebrity surgeon Dr. Jennifer Levine told Page Six. She uses a three-in-one laser treatment to address “Ozempic face” and skin sagging elsewhere on the body.
But, ultimately, she sees the rise of GLP-1 use and the increasingly open conversation around it as positive.
“It’s very challenging when people have never been thin, or struggled to be thin, now feel good and healthy being thin. I don’t think that just like you shouldn’t be shamed for being heavier, you don’t need to be shamed for being thin either. It’s the opposite of body positivity — we should let people make choices about their bodies,” Levine said.
But Lewis can’t help but wonder how much of it is really a choice for women in the entertainment industry.
“There is a lot of peer pressure in Hollywood,” she said. “We’re going back to the older dates of thinner is better – if they [stars] don’t have the basis and structure to say, ‘I don’t care I’m happy in my size.”
