Meghan Markle describes herself as ‘ugly duckling’ on podcast

Duchess of Sussex described herself as the 'ugly duckling' on the third episode of 'Archetypes' with guest star Mindy Kaling.

Sep 6, 2022 - 17:24
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Meghan Markle describes herself as ‘ugly duckling’ on podcast

The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle described herself as the “ugly duckling” on the third episode of her Spotify podcast Archetypes which released on 6 September.

MEGHAN DESCRIBES HERSELF AS ‘UGLY DUCKLING’

The third episode of Meghan Markle’s podcast Archetypes launched on Tuesday 6 September with guest Mindy Kaling. Episode three was titled The Stigma of the Singleton with Mindy Kaling and the duchess described herself as the “ugly duckling”.

“Maybe not conventional beauty as it… now maybe that would be seen as beautiful, like massive frizzy curly hair and a huge gap in my teeth. I was a smart one, forever and ever and ever and ever and then just sort of grew up,” she said.

Mindy expressed that she was surprised to find out that the duchess was not the “hot girl”.

“Now I want to say this is a revelation to me because I went through life being like, OK, well Meghan Markle was like that one nice hot girl who like has her head screwed on right, because her mom’s probably like really cool, but knowing that you were not that is news to me, probably news to people listening to this,” said Mindy.

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THE DUCHESS PLANNED HER WEDDING AT THE AGE OF 14 

Meghan went on to say that she never had anyone to sit next to on lunch. So, she became the president of different clubs so she would be busy and didn’t have to worry about how lonely she was.

“’I never had anyone to sit with at lunch. I was always a little bit of a loner and really shy and didn’t know where I fit in. And so I just became. well, I was like OK then I’ll become the president of the multicultural club and the president of sophomore class and the president of this and French club. And by doing that, I had meetings at lunchtime, so I didn’t have to worry about who I would sit with or what I would do because I was always so busy,” she said.

Meghan also said that she started planning her wedding at the age of 14.She explained that it was a religious studies assignment at her Catholic school. The duchess also expressed that she wanted her wedding to be in the Bel Air hotel, with a Swan Lake.

“When I was 14, I planned my wedding. Not my actual wedding, that would have been a bit harder to imagine,” she said.

She went on to say that as a teenager you couldn’t say that you wanted to be single.

“At no point can you say ‘Nope. My dream for the future is to be single. The message even at my feminist all-girls school was as traditional as it gets. First comes love. Then comes marriage,” she continued.

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