Meghan Trainor and More Pregnant Celebrities Diagnosed With Gestational Diabetes

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Meghan Trainor and More Pregnant Celebrities Diagnosed With Gestational Diabetes

Tough pregnancies. Meghan Trainor, Salma Hayek and more celebrities have opened up about being diagnosed with gestational diabetes. The “All About That Bass” singer said during a December 2020 Today show appearance that the “little tiny bump in the road” had been “manageable and OK.” She explained, "I just have to really pay attention to everything I eat.” While the condition is treatable, it can cause high blood sugar. Trainor called the diagnosis a learning experience, saying, "It's nice to learn so much about food and health, and [it's] nice to hear that so many women experience this." The news came two months after the Grammy winner announced that she and husband Daryl Sabara have a little one on the way. “You all know how long I’ve wanted this!!!!” the pregnant star wrote via Instagram in October 2020. “@darylsabara and I are so beyond happy and excited to meet this little cutie early next year! WE’RE PREGNANTTTTT!!!” The Spy Kids star added with a post of his own: “I love you @meghan_trainor and I can’t wait to start a family with you.” [jwplayer U3kBcZ5q] As for Hayek, the actress battled gestational diabetes in 2007 while carrying her and husband Francois Henri-Pinault's daughter, Valentina. "I became huge,” the Drunk Parents star told Glamour the following year. "And I said, 'This is what it takes for me to have this baby, and I really want it.’ Then you don't know if it's going to be healthy; you are completely out of control. So the experience really makes you humble.” Hayek didn’t realize that she had gestational diabetes at first, she told Parents magazine that same year. "I was nauseated for nine months, which can be one of the symptoms,” the Mexico native explained. "If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't eat so much fruit at the beginning. I didn't know that eating fruit that is high in sugar is not recommended when you have gestational diabetes." Keep scrolling to see more expectant stars who dealt with the same health issues, from Mariah Carey to Teen Mom OG’s Amber Portwood. [podcast_block]

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Billie Lourd

After the Scream Queens alum had a "lil gestational diabetes scare," she went from craving ice cream to beets, Lourd wrote on her February 2021 Instagram Story.

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Meghan Trainor

The Voice UK judge told Ryan Seacrest in November 2020 that her condition was “very common and all genetics,” explaining, “I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, man! I ate such crap in the first few trimesters.’ And they’re like, ‘It’s not you. It’s nothing you ate. It’s in your genetics.’ And I’m like OK because my mom did have it too.”

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Amber Portwood

The MTV personality’s doctor visits ahead of son James' arrival were “draining,” she told Us Weekly in April 2018. "It’s been a big issue, you know, it doesn’t make you feel the greatest. I can’t really go anywhere. … I have to check my blood sugar after I eat. I’m healthy, the baby is very healthy and it’s going perfectly.”

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Trista Sutter

“When I completed the glucose tolerance test, I was definitely shocked, even though I have diabetes in my family,” the Bachelor alum told RD Lounge in January 2018. "I should have thought to myself that it could happen, but I really didn’t think about it. But it wasn’t a shock that I couldn’t handle, especially because I had a meeting with a registered dietitian nutritionist almost immediately after my diagnosis. I was able to control it through diet and exercise. I didn’t have to get insulin shots or medication. I really did feel like I could get a handle on it.”

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Mariah Carey

“I did develop gestational diabetes,” the Meaning of Mariah Carey author told Access Hollywood of her 2011 pregnancy with twins Moroccan and Monroe. “I’m good with that now, I’m OK, but you just have to be careful, nutritionally.”

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Angelina Jolie

Us broke the news in 2008 that the Salt star had been diagnosed with gestational diabetes while expecting her and Brad Pitt’s twins, Knox and Vivienne. "She’s been seeing a nutritionist about it frequently,” a source said at the time. "She’s sick and irritable and feels heavy and weak."

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Salma Hayek

"I was ignorant when I was pregnant, and that was a weird sensation, not knowing what was good for my body and what was bad," the Emmy winner told Parents.

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Mariska Hargitay

"This pregnancy was really hard for me at the end,” the Law & Order: SVU alum told Self in 2007. "I wasn’t mobile."