Day: October 18, 2022

• Meghan Markle talked about “Breaking Down the Bimbo” on her podcast Archetypes.
• The Duchess of Sussex used to work as a briefcase girl on TV’s Deal or No Deal.
• Meghan joined Deal or No Deal mid-way through her acting career.

Before winning a part in Suits and eventually marrying into royalty, Meghan Markle admitted in a new episode of her Spotify podcast that she didn’t love being a briefcase girl on Deal or No Deal.

The Duchess of Sussex discussed “Breaking Down the Bimbo” in the most recent episode of her podcast Archetypes. She explained to listeners how her role as the reality show’s briefcase girl made her feel less intelligent.

Meghan revealed the following in the programme that aired on October 18, 2022 and had Paris Hilton as a guest: “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.’”

“Like I said, I was thankful for the job but not for how it made me feel which was not smart.”

“And by the way, 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, knowing that I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage,” she continued.

Meghan went on to add: “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.”

Midway through her acting career, the Duchess of Sussex joined the game show. She also admitted to her podcast listeners that she accepted the position in order to “earn money and health insurance.”

“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,” Meghan recalled.

She then added: “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…”

“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 shared.

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