{"id":314034,"date":"2025-08-24T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/314034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:22:19","slug":"meghan-trainor-teams-up-with-patrick-mahomes-for-state-farm-ad-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/314034\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Trainor teams up with Patrick Mahomes for State Farm ad debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/meghan-trainor-says-f-teachers-apologizes-immense-backlash-got-angry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Meghan Trainor <\/a>is now a triple threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the 31-year-old singer discussed what it was like starring in her first commercial for State Farm alongside Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They told me you got an offer to be in a State Farm commercial, and I was like &#8216;You&#8217;re lying, you&#8217;re lying to me,&#8217; and then I was like, \u2018How could that possibly make sense, like what do you mean,\u2019 and they&#8217;re like \u2018With Patrick Mahomes,\u2019 and I was like &#8216;Now I&#8217;m very confused&#8217; and then, and they sent me the script, and I was freaking out because it&#8217;s so brilliant and perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having grown up playing football with her brothers, getting to work with Mahomes was &#8220;an absolute blessing and a miracle,&#8221; and she joked that her brothers &#8220;were more excited about this than anything I&#8217;ve ever done in my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meghan-trainor-patrick-mahomes-split.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Trainor and Patrick Mahomes split\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Meghan Trainor was excited to get to work with Patrick Mahomes in her first commercial. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/brittany-mahomes-celebrates-taylor-swift-acquiring-rights-her-own-music-recordings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PATRICK AND BRITTANY MAHOMES CELEBRATE AS TAYLOR SWIFT REGAINS OWNERSHIP OF HER MUSIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trainor admits she &#8220;didn&#8217;t know what to expect&#8221; prior to meeting Mahomes, joking her brothers did nothing to calm her nerves, warning her she was &#8220;walking into a room with superstars.&#8221; She was happy to find the football player to be &#8220;really sweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: MEGHAN TRAINOR CALLED WORKING WITH PATRICK MAHOMES ON NEW COMMERCIAL A \u2018BLESSING AND A MIRACLE\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in a bubble dress, and I was just like, &#8216;Hello, I&#8217;m the pop girl.&#8217; So I felt very random and out of place, but they made me feel so comfortable immediately,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Gosh, everyone was so nice on set. Jay from State Farm, just a delight. Patrick was the most chillest, coolest guy ever. And I was making him giggle all day and I felt like an absolute star. It was so magical and big and huge. And I&#8217;m like, this is the top. This is the top of commercials. Here we are, we&#8217;ve made it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/patrick-mahomes-meghan-trainor-jake.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Trainor, Patrick Mahomes and Jake from State Farm posing for a promotional picture.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Trainor didn&#8217;t know what to expect when meeting Mahomes, but said he was sweet. (State Farm)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Made You Look&#8221; singer went on to explain that acting has always been one of her dreams and gave a &#8220;shout out to State Farm for even considering me.&#8221; While acting is something she is just starting to experiment with, her husband got his start as a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Daryl Sabara, is best known for his starring role as Juni Cortez in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/spy-kids-star-alexa-penavega-reveals-husband-jealous-love-scenes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spy Kids<\/a>&#8221; trilogy, and while the first movie was released when Sabara was 9 years old, he first appeared on-screen as a baby in three episodes of &#8220;Murphy Brown&#8221; in 1992, a fact Trainor finds shocking.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meghan-trainor-daryl-sabara.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Trainor and Daryl Sabara out in Midtown in December 2024.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Trainor is married to &#8220;Spy Kids&#8221; star Daryl Sabara. (TheStewartofNY\/GC Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always talk about it because my husband was acting as a baby, baby, so even at Riley&#8217;s age now, he was doing auditions for commercials, and we&#8217;re just like, Riley, that would make him so angry,&#8221; she explained of their 4-year-old son. &#8220;Like that, there&#8217;s no way this kid could focus for five seconds. So we&#8217;re just like, \u2018How did you do this? How are you going to auditions every day at this age?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trainor went on to say that &#8220;it definitely takes like a certain type of brain, a certain type of kid&#8221; to be able to handle having a career at a young age. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/events\/grammys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Grammy Award<\/a>-winning singer added that her son recently started asking to join her on stage during her shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;OK, if that&#8217;s what you want to do, I will support you and I will help you. So, I will let you come out in this song, and we&#8217;ll dance and have the best time,'&#8221; she said. &#8220;So if they show interest, like, obviously, I&#8217;m going to be the first to be like, &#8216;Here&#8217;s a keyboard, you know, or like let&#8217;s write songs.&#8217; But I can barely get them to dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sabara and Trainor began dating in July 2016, and were engaged a year later, in December 2017. The two were married in December 2018, and have since welcomed two sons: Riley, 4, and Barry, 2.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meghan-trainor-daryl-sabara-riley.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Trainor and Daryl Sabara with their son Riley at Disney California Adventure Park.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Trainor and Sabara share two children: Riley and Barry. (Christian Thompson\/Disneyland Resort via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>While her children have only just begun showing interest in performing with Trainor, she enjoys traveling with Riley whenever she can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best is when I get to bring him on a plane and go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kansas City<\/a> and do commercials like this, and meet people and travel,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I said, \u2018What makes you happy in life?&#8217; And he said traveling, and so any chance I can, I steal him, and we go away and travel, so that&#8217;s like been the biggest reward and the coolest thing ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meghan-trainor-selfie.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Trainor poses for a selfie with Patrick Mahomes and Jake from State Farm.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Trainor says one of the cool parts of her career is getting to travel with her son and having them meet people like Mahomes. (State Farm)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;All About That Bass&#8221; singer admits that with her thriving music career and burgeoning acting career she &#8220;always feels like I&#8217;m not there enough and not physically present&#8221; enough with her family, but that it&#8217;s something she is working on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I remember like regular families, like most moms are gone at work, like all day long. And I was like, \u2018Oh yeah, this is normal. Why does it feel so awful?\u2019&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And my mom worked every single day and my parents, I never saw them either. So that&#8217;s like a real big thing I&#8217;ve been struggling with. And now my 4-year-old is about to start school. And I&#8217;m like, but then I&#8217;ll never see him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/meghantrainor2.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Trainor in a grey sweatshirt that says 'DOG MOM' in pink letters looks at the camera\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Trainor said she is working on not feeling guilty when being away from her kids. (Phillip Faraone\/Getty Images for Freshpet)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lori Bashian is an entertainment production assistant for Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Meghan Trainor is now a triple threat. 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