I’m only going to post the cover from Megan Thee Stallion’s Women’s Health editorial, but you can see the photos here. You’ll see why I can’t post it – Megan is showing off her bombshell body to a crazy degree, and the editorial is very ass-intensive. She looks amazing, and that’s what the interview is about too – she’s crushing her workouts, she’s crushing her improved diet and she’s hitting her professional stride. It’s been a long time coming. It took her several years to really recover and heal from the 2020 shooting and losing her mother and grandmother. She went into therapy and came out of a really dark period. But now she’s doing really well. Some highlights:

It’s difficult to be motivated in the morning: “Getting out of bed to work out in the morning is a struggle. I have to get mentally prepared. I’m like, ‘I can stay here for another hour, or I can get up and go work out and be a bad bitch. If I want to be a stallion and not a pony, I got to get up and put in the work.’ I always feel like, ‘I got to do something better.’ I can’t be stuck. I can’t be stagnant.”

What happened after Tory Lanez shot her: “A lot of people didn’t treat me like I was human for a long time. I feel like everybody was always used to me being the fun and happy party girl. I watched people build me up, tear me down, and be confused about their expectations of me. As a Black woman, as a darker Black woman, I also feel like people expect me to take the punches, take the beating, take the lashings, and handle it with grace. But I’m human.”

The dark times after the shooting: “I didn’t want to get [out] from under the covers. I stayed in my room. I would not turn the lights on. I had blackout curtains. I didn’t want to see the sun. I knew I wasn’t myself. It took me a while to acknowledge that I was depressed. But once I started talking to a therapist, I was able to be truthful with myself.”

Working on her body: “Working on myself made me get into working out because I needed to focus my energy somewhere else. I used working out to escape and to get happy.” Now, she gets physical regularly. Four or five days a week, Megan sweats it out in Pilates class, at the gym, or at the beach with one of her two trainers, Emory “Joc” Bernard and Tim Boutte. For cardio, she runs up sand hills at the beach or spends 40 minutes on the StairMaster or elliptical. When targeting her legs and thighs, she does hip thrusts, goblet squats, leg extensions, and those “stallion kicks.” Weighted situps work her abs, and lat pulldowns, lat flies, and renegade rows strengthen her back.

She wants a volleyball player’s physique. The appeal? “Strong legs! You look like you can jump high. I love that look.” On her way to achieving her ideal physique, Megan noticed that no matter how much she worked, she still had “this little gut,” she says. So, she leveled up her diet by scaling back on bread, tuna melts, and red meat and eliminating sugary drinks like soda, juice, and cognac. Today, she drinks about a gallon of water a day and reaches for tequila instead. When Megan realized she no longer felt bloated and her skin became noticeably clearer, she knew she was on the right track.

Her modified diet: She eats a lot of avocados and drinks a strawberry, banana, almond milk, and protein powder smoothie or a green juice in the morning before she works out, eating pan-seared salmon for lunch, and having sea bass or cod for dinner along with tomatoes, sweet potatoes, kale, or brown rice; she snacks on cucumber slices with salt and pepper, and cherry tomatoes with light balsamic vinaigrette. But she’ll never give up pepper jack cheese and dark chocolate. “I am still a Southern girl, so I like to eat what I want. I just don’t go overboard.”

She finds solace in the shower: “I love the sound of running water. I can clear my head.”

[From Women’s Health]

She often posts cool videos of her workouts on her social media, and you can tell that her personal trainers encourage her to get out of the gym and out of her house and do fun workouts outside, which also helps clear her mind. You can really see the results too – her body just looks phenomenal these days. I couldn’t do that diet though – just fish and veggies, really. But there’s a reference to Megan having stomach issues, so I would assume that she’s consulting with doctors and nutritionists. Honestly, her diet seems perfectly healthy, I just find it boring. But that’s why I don’t have Megan’s hot body.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, cover courtesy of Women’s Health.