Lauren Alaina Says Pregnancy Has 'Transformed' Her Mindset After Struggling with 'Body Image' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Lauren Alaina.Photo:Terry Wyatt/Getty

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Pregnancy taughtLauren Alainaa thing or two about self-love.

Alaina has beenvocal about her strugglewith body image in the past. In August 2023, she opened up about struggling with eating onBachelorettestarHannah Brown’sBetter Tomorrowpodcast.

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“I wasalways confident on the stage; the one thing I wasn’t confident [about] was my weight, probably my whole life," she continued.

Then, during her 2011 run onAmerican Idol, she received an overwhelming amount of backlash about her body, as she was shifting “between a teenager and a woman.”

Elsewhere in their conversation, she shared that going to therapy helped and she was “happy and healthy” in her life.

Alainarevealed she was pregnant to PEOPLEafter teasing her pregnancy in her “These Kind of Women” music video, which premiered on Wednesday, Jan. 22.

“Now I’m scared because I don’t feel like I passed any sort of test. They don’t make you take a test on being a mom. It’s crazy. People are like, ‘What’s your plan with the birth? And what’s your plan here?” And I’m like, listen, ‘God’s plan. It wasn’t my plan,'" she says, adding that she’s been asking her own mom and friends with kids for advice.

source: people.com