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Meghan Markle has opened up about her year as a Deal or No Deal briefcase girl and revealed she quit because she felt ‘objectified’, only appreciated for ‘beauty not brains’ and treated like a ‘bimbo’ – the word at the heart of her latest Spotify podcast released today featuring Paris Hilton.
The Duchess of Sussex said she was grateful for the work as she tried to break through as an actress and ‘pay the bills’ – but disliked ‘how it made me feel, which was not smart’.
Speaking on her new Archetypes podcast with Paris Hilton, called ‘Breaking Down the Bimbo’. Meghan said that she wants her own daughter Lilibet to be valued first for her brain rather than her beauty or her body, like she felt she was on Deal or No Deal, where she appeared in 34 episodes.
The Duchess said: ‘I want our daughter to aspire to be slightly higher. Yeah, I want my Lili to want to be educated and want to be smart and to pride herself on those things’.
Meghan appeared on Season two of NBC’s Deal or No Deal 16 years ago. She first stood beside briefcase number 11 for two episodes, then moved to number 24. She left the show midway through the season in 2006.
She said: ‘I ended up quitting the show. I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage.
‘I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks. And little substance. And that’s how it felt for me at the time being reduced to this specific archetype the word bimbo’.
The California-based royal revealed that she and the other women on the show were forced to ‘line up’ for various beauty treatments including ‘padding in your bra’ and fake eyelashes. She said: ‘We were even given spray-tan vouchers each week because there was a very cookie cutter idea, of precisely what we should look like. It was solely about our beauty’.
Meghan Markle today opened up on being a Deal or No Deal briefcase girl and revealed she quit claiming she felt ‘objectified’ and like a ‘bimbo’
Meghan appeared on Season two of NBC’s Deal or No Deal 16 years ago. She first stood beside briefcase number 11 for two episodes, then moved to number 24. The royal claimed that the briefcase girls had to go to beauty stations, including one for padding her bra and there were spray tan vouchers. Meghan said that she wants her own daughter Lilibet to be valued first for her brain rather than her beauty or her body.
The Duchess of Sussex was speaking on her new Archetypes podcast with Paris Hilton, called ‘Breaking Down the Bimbo’
Meghan appeared on the show before he breakthrough on the hit show Suits, before she met Prince Harry.
She said: ‘I was surrounded by smart women on that stage with me, but that wasn’t the focus of why we were there and I would end up leaving with this pit in my stomach. Like I said, I was thankful for the job but not for how it made me feel which was not smart’.
The Duchess of Sussex appeared in 34 episodes of Deal or No Deal between 2006 and 2007. She said at the start of her podcast: ‘I was really grateful as an auditioning actress to have a job. That could pay my bills. I had income, I was part of the Union, I had health insurance, it was great’.
But she said that she would daydream about not being appreciated for her brain or education.
She said: ‘There were times when I was on set at Deal or No Deal and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, Buenos Aires, and being in the motorcade with the secretary of treasury at the time and being valued specifically for my brain.
‘Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite. I mean, you have to imagine just to paint the picture for you that before the tapings of the show, all the girls, we would line up.
‘And there were different stations for having your lashes, put on, or your extensions, put in, or the padding in your bra.
‘We were even given spray-tan vouchers each week because there was a very cookie-cutter idea, of precisely what we should look like. It was solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains’.
Meghan also told listeners on the latest episode of her ‘Archetypes’ Spotify podcast that she was nervous about interviewing Paris Hilton, because she’d ‘had a judgment’ about the socialite.
The latest episode of the Duchess of Sussex’s podcast series, entitled ‘Breaking Down The Bimbo’, saw her come face-to-face with the 41-year-old socialite as they discussed her rise to fame as a reality TV star in the 90s.
Before the interview began, Markle, also 41, told her audience that she was anxious ahead of the recording, saying: ‘I’ve been the most nervous about this one.’
She explained: ‘Because while I’m embarrassed to admit it, I had a judgment about Paris. And I don’t like having judgment doesn’t feel good.
‘But I had to be real about that because when I grew up, she was beautiful, rich and famous. What could possibly be wrong with her life?’
The frank episode saw Markle discuss the labels of ‘Bimbo’ and ‘Dumb Blonde’, exploring why ‘brains and beauty in a woman have been historically pitted against each other’.
The Duchess of Sussex released the latest episode of her Spotify Archetypes podcast, ‘Breaking Down The Bimbo’, on Tuesday – but admitted she was nervous about interviewing Paris Hilton because she’d ‘had a judgment’ about the US socialite. Ms Markle, 41, says she grew up thinking ‘What could possibly be wrong with her life?’ because Hilton, also 41, was ‘beautiful, rich and famous’
Hilton shot to fame in the 90s, with socialite pal Nicole Richie in reality TV show The Simple Life; she says she was told to adopt a ‘bimbo’ persona for the programme
In last week’s episode Meghan claimed she had been branded ‘crazy’ and ‘hysterical’, saying such labels were used to silence women.
In her latest podcast, she said the insults could lead to people being ‘gaslit’ into thinking they were ill. Taking a swipe at films and TV, she attacked the way the words were ‘thrown around casually’, leaving ‘reputations destroyed and careers ruined’.
Meghan’s Spotify podcast has returned after a brief pause following the death of Prince Harry’s grandmother the Queen
Meghan, 41, didn’t say who had questioned her mental health but revealed her ‘worst point’ came after she started dating Prince Harry and he arranged a referral for her.
During her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey last year she confessed to feeling suicidal while working as a frontline member of the Royal Family. Her experience demonstrated the need to be ‘really honest about what it is that you need’, she said.
In a trigger warning at the start of the podcast, entitled The Decoding Of Crazy, the duchess advised listeners to tune out if the subject matter was ‘too heavy’.
She added: ‘Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called crazy or hysterical or what about nuts? Insane, out of your mind, completely irrational. OK, you get the point. Now, if we were all in the same room and could see each other, I think it would be pretty easy to see just how many of us have our hands up.
‘By the way, me too. And it’s no wonder when you consider just how prevalent these labels are in our culture.’
The former Suits star said the damaging depictions of women’s mental states were ‘drilled into us from movies and TV, from friends and family, and even random strangers’.
Several clips were played, including one from the sitcom How I Met Your Mother where Barney, played by Neil Patrick Harris, says: ‘If she’s this crazy, she has to be this hot.’
Conservative philosopher Jordan Peterson was then heard saying: ‘I don’t think that men can control crazy women.’
The stigma around the word crazy had a ‘silencing effect’, particularly for those with real mental health issues, Meghan added. ‘They get scared. They stay quiet, they internalise and they repress for far too long.’
Describing how Harry, 38, found help for her at her lowest ebb, the California-based mother of two recalled: ‘My husband had found a referral for me to call.
‘And I called this woman and she didn’t even know I was calling her and she was checking out at the grocery store. I could hear the little beep, beep … she could hear the dire state that I was in. But I think it’s for all of us to be really honest about what it is that you need and to not be afraid and make peace with that, to ask for it.’
The 55-minute fifth episode of her Archetypes podcast series, which went on to different topics including successful women being ‘calculating or having some agenda’, had a contribution from US comedian Jenny Slate. During a discussion on the word hysteria – from the Greek for womb – Miss Slate said: ‘Hysteria, craziness, like it’s a disease of the people with the uteri, like, the people with the emotions. It is a definition created by a man. It is a definition meant to shame and limit a certain type of experience.’
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