The Moment
Meghan Trainor just added a new member to her very musical household – and she did it quietly, via surrogate.
In an emotional Instagram post shared Tuesday, the 32-year-old singer announced that she and husband Daryl Sabara welcomed their third child, a baby girl named Mikey Moon Trainor, on January 18, 2026.
Meghan thanked an ‘incredible, superwoman surrogate’ and said she and Sabara are ‘over the moon in love’ with their daughter. The couple’s sons Riley, 4, and Barry, 2, are reportedly thrilled and even helped choose their sister’s middle name.
She also made one thing clear: after ‘endless conversations’ with doctors, using a surrogate was, in her words, the safest way for them to keep growing their family.
Then she signed off with a promise to disappear for a bit and enjoy family time. Translation: no, you may not have a delivery-room vlog, but you can have this soft-focus baby rollout and that’s it for now.
The Take
I’ll say it: this is how you do a ‘secret baby’ in 2026 without turning it into a circus.
On one side, we have the modern celebrity pregnancy machine – bump-watch photos, gender-reveal stunts, brand deals built entirely around a fetus. On the other, Meghan Trainor quietly works with a surrogate, follows her doctors’ advice, has the baby, then posts when she feels ready. No countdown, no sponsored sonogram, no 47-part documentary.
For a woman whose career took off on a song about body image, that’s a big, interesting shift. She’s not selling us the journey this time; she’s protecting it.
The word that jumps out in her caption is ‘safest’. She doesn’t owe anyone the medical footnotes behind that choice, and to her credit, she doesn’t offer them. She simply frames surrogacy as a health-informed decision for her family, not a scandal or a headline-grab.
And let’s talk about that: celebrities using surrogates still get hit with a double standard. When a star uses a trainer, stylist, chef, and glam squad to get through a tour, we call it a team. When she uses a surrogate under medical guidance, suddenly it’s whispers and side-eyes. Meghan sets it up differently: the surrogate is a ‘superwoman’, a hero, not a shadowy figure we’re supposed to judge.
TIME TO ACCEPT SURROGACY
As an OB-GYN inclined Doctor, I have seen surrogacy give hope to families facing real medical risks like trauma from prior births or health complications.
Meghan Trainor’s choice to grow her family safely via a surrogate is not ‘buying a baby’
it’s… pic.twitter.com/5MPais7NRb
— Doctor Ken🤰👶🤱 (@TheVirginDoctor) January 21, 2026
There’s also the privacy piece. Fans only found out about baby Mikey Moon when she was already here, swaddled and camera-ready. That’s not secrecy for drama’s sake; that’s just… boundaries. For a public figure, trying to have a private family milestone is like trying to have a quiet dinner in Times Square. You can do it, but only if you plan your exit.
And yes, the name: Mikey Moon. It’s whimsical, a little Hollywood, and very on-brand for a couple whose first child is named Riley and second is Barry. You can almost see the kids’ show spinoff now. But it also sounds like a family that’s not taking itself too seriously, even while making some very serious choices.
Bottom line: Meghan didn’t ask for a think-piece, but by being matter-of-fact about surrogacy and firm about privacy, she just wrote one.
Receipts
Confirmed
- Meghan Trainor announced the birth of her third child, daughter Mikey Moon, in an Instagram post shared Tuesday, January 21, 2026, including the birth date of January 18, 2026.
- In that post, she thanked an ‘incredible, superwoman surrogate’ and said she and husband Daryl Sabara are ‘forever grateful’ to the medical teams who helped them.
- Trainor stated that, after extensive conversations with doctors, using a surrogate was the ‘safest way’ for them to continue growing their family.
- She noted that sons Riley (4) and Barry (2) are excited about their baby sister and helped choose her middle name.
- Meghan and Daryl have been publicly married since 2018, and they have two older children together, as confirmed in prior public interviews and posts.
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- The specific medical reasons behind the decision to use a surrogate have not been disclosed by Trainor, and anything beyond her own words would be speculation.
- Any claims about tension, ‘secret drama,’ or family conflict around surrogacy are unconfirmed; she has only expressed gratitude and joy publicly.
Sources: Meghan Trainor’s official Instagram announcement (January 21, 2026); widely circulated entertainment news reports on the birth and caption details published the same day.
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
If Meghan Trainor is still ‘that All About That Bass girl’ in your mind, here’s the quick refresher. She broke out in 2014 with that body-positive earworm, then followed it with more pop hits and a judging gig on music competition TV. In 2018, she married actor Daryl Sabara, best known as the kid from the ‘Spy Kids’ movies who somehow grew up into a full-on husband and dad.
The pair welcomed their first son, Riley, in 2021 and their second son, Barry, in 2023. Over the years, Meghan has been unusually candid about motherhood, her body, and the less-glossy sides of pregnancy and postpartum life. She’s the type to tell you about the messy parts and then write a catchy hook about it.
That’s why this more controlled, after-the-fact reveal stands out. It feels like a course correction: still honest, but less exposed.
What’s Next
By her own words, what’s next is simple: ‘enjoy our family time now’. Expect fewer bump updates and more quiet stretches on social while the Trainor-Sabara household adjusts to being a party of five.
Professionally, Meghan is in that sweet spot where motherhood and music tend to merge. Don’t be shocked if baby Mikey inspires a lullaby, a full album, or at least a tear-jerker track about choosing the safest path for your family, even when the world is watching.
The bigger story to watch isn’t just her next single; it’s how openly she continues to talk about surrogacy. She’s already framed it as a medically guided, loving choice. If she decides to expand on that, she could help normalize a process a lot of families quietly use but rarely see reflected without judgment.
For now, though, she’s drawn a line: here’s my baby, here’s the basic story, and the rest is ours. In a culture that treats celebrity pregnancies like public property, that boundary might be the boldest move of all.
How do you feel about celebrities keeping surrogacy journeys private until after the baby arrives – healthy boundary, missed opportunity, or something in between?
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