Grateful, but distressing. Meghan Markle recalled her time on Deal or No Deal on the new episode of her podcast Archetypes. The Duchess of Sussex introduced her episode on “Bimbos” with Paris Hilton about what it was like to be a briefcase girl on the hit game show and how she felt reduced when she was on the show.
One particular moment stuck with Meghan to this day. She said, “And when I look back at that time, I will never forget this one detail – because moments before we’d get on stage with our briefcase, there was a woman who ran the show and she would be there backstage – and I can still hear her – she couldn’t properly pronounce my last name at the time and I knew who she was talking to because she’d go, ‘Mark-el, suck it in.
Meghan also reflected on how she doesn’t want to her daughter Lilibet to fall under the archetype of “bimbo.” “I don’t see that as an aspirational thing for a woman. I want our daughters to aspire to be slightly higher. I want my Lili to want to be educated and want to be smart and to pride herself on those things.”