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Meghan Markle has launched a brand new podcast during which she focuses on the work and achievements of feminine entrepreneurs.
On her newest episode, Meghan talked a bit about her personal life and profession.
And in a revelation that’s certain to shock — properly, nearly everybody — it appears that evidently the Duchess of Sussex struggled to e-book sure varieties of work in her modeling days.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex speaks onstage throughout the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Middle on April 23, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Jemal Countess/Getty Photographs for TIME)
Meghan Markle makes shocking admission about her modeling days
Talking with It Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima, Meghan opened in regards to the methods during which the modeling trade broken her vanity.
“That would have been when I was an actor, auditioning for commercials. And I remember my commercial agent could not submit me for beauty or skincare ads because I had freckles,” the Duchess of Sussex defined, including:
“They’re like, ‘No, no, no, no. It’s just never gonna work because freckles aren’t a sign of beauty.’”
Reflecting on the sweetness requirements of that period, Meghan revealed that she was usually made to really feel like an outsider.
“You couldn’t see yourself reflected there,” she stated.
Fortunately, Meghan transitioned to a profession in appearing, and her function on Fits led her to Prince Harry.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex speaks onstage throughout the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Middle on April 23, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Jemal Countess/Getty Photographs for TIME)
A brand new period in magnificence and vogue
From there, Lima opened up about how her imaginative and prescient for a extra inclusive skincare model led to her large success.
“What if I could launch a business where I put real people as models? Every age and shape and size and skin tone and skin challenge,” she remembered pondering.
“And that was such new thinking then, when you were bringing that to market,” Meghan gushed in response.
“Now it may seem more normalized. People listening now will be like ‘Well yeah of course,’ It was not an ‘of course.’ It was a revolutionary way to think about makeup and beauty at the time.”
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, attends the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Middle on April 23, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Craig Barritt/Getty Photographs for TIME)
Throughout a earlier episode of the podcast, Meghan opened up in regards to the insensitivity she encountered in her youth.
“When I was at Northwestern and I moved into Kappa [Kappa Gamma], our sorority there, I don’t even think they made plug-in flat irons at the time,” she stated.
“In the event that they did, I didn’t know the place they have been as a result of I had the little range with the flat iron that may go in and have a paper towel on the aspect.
“And I remember most of the girls in the sorority — who were not black — saying, ‘What’s that smell? Is hair burning? And it was just what you would do to figure out how to grapple with this texture of hair.”
For sure, that should have been a painful expertise for younger Meghan, and we’re certain it wasn’t the primary or the final.
Sadly, encountering that form of prejudice in all probability went a great distance towards making ready her for all times within the British royal household.
