Meghan Trainor surgery update: singer survives operation; updates fans on social media

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Seems like it won't be too long until her lips would start moving again to serenade us, as Meghan Trainor has successfully came out of her surgery for a hemorrhaged vocal cord, People reports. In July, ET Online reported that the "All About That Bass" singer canceled the first two shows of her "MTrain Tour" due to vocal chord injury.

Trainor wrote via Instagram: "I don’t want anyone worrying but I have had a [hemorrhage] on my vocal chords. Right now the doctors want me [on] complete vocal rest until they are healed so I have to postpone my first two shows in Atlantic City and Connecticut."

She added: "I love you all very much and want to get healed quickly so I can show you this amazing tour we’ve been working on. I am truly sorry to everyone who has bought tickets and made travel plans. I hate this."

In August, Reuters reported that Trainor suffered another bout with a hemorrhaged vocal cord, causing her to cancel the rest of her tour.

Trainor wrote via Instagram: "I have hemorrhaged my vocal cord again. I got bronchitis & have been coughing a lot & that pushed it over the edge."

According to Steven M. Zeitels, surgeon and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center who treated Adele, Sam Smith, Steven Tyler, and even Julie Andrews for their vocal problems, vocal cord issues are pretty common, it's just that with today's connectivity, people are more aware about it.

Zeitels told Vulture: "Performers are essentially athletes. They’re asked to perform at a high level even when they have a common cold. If you or I get sick and we’re a little hoarse, we don’t necessarily do anything other than slow down a bit and go to work. A singer's job is to go out and perform in front of tens of thousands of people, and the tissues in their vocal cords need to rest. They’re not the type to sit out unless they really have to."

Zeitels said that surgery isn't the only option. He explained: "You operate because of a person's assessment of how their voice is failing, whether it’s stamina, projection, frequency, or range. People who have things on their vocal cords and don’t touch them, it’s usually because they’re doing what they need to do. It’s not a mandate to operate just because the vocal cords don’t look normal. We only mandate doing something when we see something that looks like a tumor."

Trainor has updated her fans via Instagram, posting before and after surgery selfies. The 21-year-old singer seems to be on the road to recovery and is taking it lightly. She wrote: "My before and after pics. I look so hurt haha I survived tho! Thank you, Dr. Nasseri for being my hero. Now just napping all day long on the couch with mama and getting free head rubs. Any movie suggestions?"