Meghan Trainor was not happy when someone "Photoshopped the crap out of me" in yesterday's version of her "Me Too" music video.
The 22-year-old singer immediately wanted the clip removed from her official accounts and told fans via Snapchat she was "embarrassed" by how "teeny" her waist looked post-editing.
Just one day later, a Meghan-approved version of "Me Too" was released. She spoke to Howard Stern on his Sirius XM radio show about what had been off-limits when it came to Photoshop. "It was a thing where I asked them, like, 'Hey, can you hide my mustache and take off my mole hair...'"
"You've got a mustache?" asked Howard.
"No," answered Meghan, "but like peach fuzz, you know, like up close and personal, [with] those closeups you never know. So I just asked them to do that [remove any facial hair], but I never said, like, cut off my rib."
When Meghan saw what her waist had been edited to look like in the "Me Too" video, she "called every head of label," she said. "I called L.A. Reid, Sylvia Rhone, I called all of them. I said, 'Take this video down. I don't care what it takes. Take it down.'"
It was very important to Meghan that the clip reflect her authentic body because, "I'm the poster child for no Photoshop," she said. "That's my thing, and I was skinnier than those dancers, who are also very skinny, so when you do that [Photoshop her waist] everyone knows that ain't real."
Meghan was also upset that her actual waist didn't make the cut. "I worked so hard. It was like a 22-hour shoot, and that was 2 a.m. and I had a Spanx, corset, I had everything—I couldn't have gotten more compliments that night, of, 'Wow, you look so snatched,'" she said. "And for them to like cut off another half, I was like, but why would I wear all that torture if you just cut it off anyways?"
She made her point, and swift action was taken. Earlier today "the real" version of Meghan's "Me Too" video was released on Vevo. "Missed that bass," the singer quipped on Instagram. "Thank you everyone for the support."
—Additional reporting by Roxana Salcedo