United Kingdom, April 11 -- Meghan Trainor anticipated the criticism she received for using a surrogate.

The 32-year-old pop star and her husband Daryl Sabara welcomed their third child, Mikey Moon, via a surrogate in January, and Meghan has now revealed that she was reduced to tears by the online vitriol that subsequently came her way.

During an appearance on the Not Gonna Lie podcast, Meghan - who has undergone a dramatic weight-loss transformation in recent years - shared: "I didn't look [at the comments].

"I knew fully-because it was after all the hate I was already getting for changing, just for looking different because I took care of myself-so I was like, 'Oh, they hate me now. They ain't going to like this'. And it was a cloud ...