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Lauren Alaina Says Pregnancy Has 'Transformed' Her Mindset After Struggling with 'Body Image' (Exclusive)


Lauren Alaina opens up to PEOPLE about how pregnancy has shifted her perspective on body image. The country star, whose new "These Kind of Women" video is out now, is expecting her first baby with husband Cam Arnold.

The female body is insane," Alaina, 30 — who's expecting her first baby with husband Cam Arnold — tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I started having problems with [an] eating disorder in middle school and then in tenth grade, I go on American Idol, ” Alaina admitted. Then, during her 2011 run on American Idol, she received an overwhelming amount of backlash about her body, as she was shifting “between a teenager and a woman.”

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