Now that country star and “American Idol” alum Lauren Alaina is the mom of a daughter, she’s angrier than ever about the body-shaming comments she keeps seeing aimed at women online, including her.
The singer and actress, who starred in Hallmark Channel’s “Roadside Romance” in 2021, posted a powerful video on February 24, 2026, to express how mad she was after reading social media comments about her postpartum body, eight months after giving birth to her daughter. Fans and friends have rallied around her in solidarity.
“We need to retire the obsession with women’s bodies,” Alaina wrote in her caption. “If you care about the music…talk about the music. If you don’t…. well, that’s fine too. But this culture of speculating about women’s bodies? It’s tired. Do better.”
Lauren Alaina Says the Incessant Body-Shaming of Women is ‘Crazy’
Alaina spoke candidly in her selfie video as she walked outside in the whipping wind, telling her followers that several weeks ago, she’d come across a TikTok video of herself performing and was stunned to see all the comments about her appearance.
“I’m literally so mad right now, I’m seething,” she started her video, recalling how so many comments on the video she found were about her weight. “I’m eight-and-a-half-months postpartum, by the way. People were saying that my tour needed to be sponsored by Ozempic, and just horrible things.”
“And it really affected me,” Alaina admitted. “I am in recovery for an eating disorder that I battled for a very long time. This just really upset me, and I know better, and I’m fine, but I’m also just ticked.”
What got Alaina upset again about the issue, she said, was that she’d just seen a video of a “young, beautiful artist” who is “literally taking over the world right now, and people were commenting and saying she needs Ozempic. I mean, she is perfectly thin and fit and, like, very healthy. Looks amazing and probably feels amazing, and they’re saying that about her?”
“I have an eight-month-old daughter, and we can’t talk about women this way,” Alaina concluded. “This is bullcrap, and if you are a woman out there and people are commenting on your body … we gotta ignore that and we all need to be better. This is crazy.”
‘American Idol’ Viewers Scrutinized Lauren Alaina’s Weight, She Recalls
Getty Alaina, who was runner-up to Scotty McCreery on “American Idol” in 2011, has been open about her struggles with disordered eating, including on a 2023 episode of Hannah Brown’s “Better Tomorrow” podcast.
“I started having problems with (an) eating disorder in middle school, and then in tenth grade, I go on ‘American Idol,” Alaina told Brown, recalling how viewers commented on her weight and one media outlet even called her “Miss Piggy.”
“What kind of evil humans can comment on a 16-year-old child is beyond me now,” she said. “But as that 16-year-old child, it got very bad for a while. I suffered with such a severe eating disorder in those years where nothing was connecting.”
Alaina said she “lost who I was completely. Everything – my light… it was dimmed quite a bit because of the TV aspect.”
Fans & Friends Commiserated With Lauren Alaina After Her Recent Video
On Instagram, nearly 10,000 fans and friends had flooded Alaina post in less than 24 hours, lifting her up and sharing how much they could relate to her anger over body shaming comments.
Country duo Tigirlily wrote, “HARD REPOST… just remember people throw rocks at things that shine 😘 you’re perfect”
Fellow “American Idol” alum Melinda Doolittle, who returned for a recent audition episode, chimed in, “And here I was being blown away by how fabulous you look and are!”
Body positive influencer Ashley Dorough wrote, “This. And I don’t care how big or small someone’s body is, NO ONE should ever be commenting on it. Period.”
On February 25, Alaina shared her post in her Instagram Stories and wrote, “The number of women who have commented on this post makes me so proud but also so sad. I’m sad that so many of us have experienced this. I love each of you. 🤍”
Alaina it’s a shame people have to be so cruel. they need to look in there own closet. God bless you and stay strong