Meghan Trainor has been refreshingly honest about a painful struggle in her marriage to Daryl Sabara. After years of discomfort, a doctor finally gave her an answer.
Meghan Trainor has opened up about a painful struggle she went through in the bedroom with her husband, Daryl Sabara. The All About That Bass singer, 32, spoke candidly about it in a 2023 episode of her podcast Workin’ On It, which she hosts with her brother Ryan Trainor. Their guest that day was Trisha Paytas.
Trainor and Sabara, 34, married on December 22, 2018, in a small ceremony in the backyard of their Los Angeles home. The date was also her 25th birthday.
The diagnosis that explained it all
The episode, released in April 2023, covered everything from pregnancy and childbirth to motherhood and sex. Trainor, who was pregnant with her second child at the time, ended up asking Paytas for advice.
“I couldn’t have sex at all in the first pregnancy.”
When Paytas asked whether it was a question of size, Trainor replied: “Yes!” She added: “I wish I could make Daryl smaller. It’s painful, dude.”
She later went to a doctor and found out she has vaginismus. According to the Cleveland Clinic, it’s a condition where the muscles around the vagina tighten involuntarily, which can cause discomfort and pain.
“I thought that every woman walking around was always in pain during and after sex,” she said. “I was like, ‘Doc, are you telling me that I could have sex and not feel a single bit of pain?'”
After becoming a mom
Things became even harder after the couple welcomed their first son, Riley, in 2021. Trainor said it took her about a year before she felt ready to be intimate again.
“It took me so long to even consider having sex with him,” she said, adding that Sabara, best known as Juni Cortez in Spy Kids, had been a “saint” through it all.
But even then, the pain didn’t go away, describing the sensation “stingy” and “burny.” The discomfort continued while they were trying for their second son, Barry, who was born in 2023.
“Like to the point when I was making this baby, I had to ice myself after,” she said. She explained that she had tried “every angle,” but each one felt worse than the last. Some days the pain lingered so much that it affected her work. “I’m like, ‘Daryl, I have to work today, and I can’t walk,'” she recalled. She had even tried transcendental meditation, without luck.
Still, she stayed upbeat. “I’m gonna figure it out,” she said. “I’m gonna be a star at sex.”
In January 2026, Trainor and Sabara welcomed their third child, daughter Mikey Moon, via surrogate.
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