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Megan Thee Stallion Opens Up About Splitting ‘Megan Pete’ From the Spotlight
In her new Entrepreneur cover story, Megan Thee Stallion reflects on fame, boundaries, and learning to separate Megan Pete from her rap persona while continuing to expand her empire beyond music.
“I had to learn who’s going to be long-term, and who’s just the reason in the season.”
Megan Thee Stallion is in a season of expansion, and she made that clear in her new Entrepreneur cover story published Tuesday, May 5. While she’s continued to grow her profile beyond rap, she said one of the biggest lessons has been learning how to separate her public-facing star power from her private self.
“I feel like I had to learn how to separate Megan Pete and Megan Thee Stallion,” she said.
She described that split as both emotional and practical. In fan interactions, Megan said she wants people to leave feeling lighter than when they arrived. “When I’m interacting with my people and my Hotties, I want them to feel like — when they had that experience with Megan — it don’t matter if they were having a bad day, because once they met me, their day was better,” she explained, adding that she hopes those moments offer real relief.
The Houston star has spent the last few years building a serious business portfolio alongside music, including her tequila brand Chicas Divertidas, a swimwear line, and a Popeyes franchise in Miami Beach.
But she also said success came with a cost: feeling like she was “on” all the time, even around people who knew her before fame. “I was Megan Thee Stallion all the time. I was on all the time. And people treated me that way,” she said. “Even people that had known me for so long in my life, they no longer treated me like the Megan that they grew up with. They started treating me like Megan Thee Stallion.”
That shift, she said, became disorienting. “I didn’t like that. I’m like, ‘This is so crazy. You know me, so why are we sitting here and you’re recording everything I do? Or why are we talking about other famous people all the time?’ It was hard for me to experience.”
Megan, 31, is also reassessing personal boundaries in real time following her recently announced split from NBA player Klay Thompson. “I had to learn who’s going to be long-term, and who’s just the reason in the season,” she said. “I had to learn that, when I go home, I can’t take my whole day with me inside of my personal life. Like, whatever happened to Megan Thee Stallion today, I should not take that home to my real friends and my real relationships and my family. This is two different lives I’m living.”
Even with that balancing act, her momentum hasn’t slowed. She recently wrapped her Broadway debut on May 1, taking on the role of Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, adding another lane to a career that keeps stretching in new directions.
Check out Megan Thee Stallion’s Entrepreneur cover below.
