Meghan openly explained why, during her pregnancies, she would “cling” to Prince Harry to make sure she didn’t fall over in the final episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder.
The conclusion of Meghan’s podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, is the final episode, in which Meghan sits down with Sara Blakely, the co-founder of SPANX.
Towards the end of the wide-ranging discussion, which saw the women discuss everything from manifestation to family, Blakely discussed her new venture with the Duchess: a company called Sneex, which makes a brand new kind of hybrid shoe that combines heels with trainers.
During their chat, the Duchess discussed her own experiences wearing uncomfortable high-heeled shoes at royal events during her first pregnancy with Prince Archie, a period of time which also saw her seriously struggle with her mental health. Meghan also admitted that in both her pregnancies, she gained quite a lot of weight – 4.6 stone or 29 kilos – which made wearing stilettos even harder.
Meghan explained in the open discussion that she had just heard from a friend about how she had forgotten about the picture of her and how she was pregnant with Archie when she said, “I mean I gained 65 pounds with both of your pregnancies, and you’re wearing these five-inch pointy-toed stilettos – they’re like “You have the most enormous bump, and your tiny little ankles are bracing themselves in these high heels.”
How on earth am I not just tipping, you know, face-planting, I’m always clinging very closely to my husband like, “Please don’t let me fall! “, I said. “But all of my weight was in the front, so you’re just going,”
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Meghan responded, “Well, you created the antidote.”
During her pregnancy with Archie, Meghan was still a working royal and had to attend a myriad of high-profile events. A royal tour in Australia meant she and Harry “had to” announce her pregnancy in October 2018, they revealed in their self-titled Netflix documentary.
Meghan donned her signature stilettos at numerous formal occasions, including the Commonwealth Day service and the Fashion Awards. One of the most notable was the Royal Albert Hall, where she revealed in 2021 that she had shared with Harry that she had suicidal thoughts.
Meghan acknowledged to Oprah that the images of the pair at the Sentebale event, which took place at one of her lowest points, made her feel “haunted” by the pair’s close proximity to mine.
Meghan’s admission that Harry handled her admission, “What took over my feelings was my royal role,” has been his regret. I was taught to think more critically about “What are people going to think if we don’t attend this event?” We’ll be tardy. I hate myself for it now that I look back at it. In the documentary series about the couple, he claimed, “She needed so much more from me than I was able to give.”
Sara explained that after four years of trying to create a “traditional stiletto” that was ten times more comfortable than what we’re all used to, and made a major transition toward a completely new kind of shoe altogether.
Blakely explained, “It was more comfortable, Meghan, but it wasn’t exponentially more comfortable,” so I looked at my team, consisting of just two girls, and said, “We’re going to pull like the plug.” It’s not there, despite what we tried.
Because I constantly say that I have a mental check that it needs to be 10x better than anything else out there, and it was maybe 4x better, but to me, that wasn’t a significant reason to spend my time and effort.
Sara then considered whether it was possible to “merge a sneaker with a stiletto.”
Meghan then explained that as she launched her most recent lifestyle brand, As Ever, she herself had to “flinch away from ideas that she had been pretty wedded about how her jams would look, realizing that her original” charming and darling “designs of” jam hats wouldn’t be put to use.
Over the course of her podcast series, Meghan has made a series of candid admissions during her chats with impressive female businesswomen, including the revelation that she suffered from postpartum preeclampsia, a “rare and scary” condition, which is caused by high blood pressure after birth and can potentially result in serious health issues such as organ failure or strokes.
“The world doesn’t know what’s happening quietly,” Meghan said. “And in the quiet, you’re still trying to show up for people, mostly for your children, but those things are huge medical scares.” Her guest Whitney responded: “I mean, life or death, truly.”
Meghan also opened up about suffering from a miscarriage in 2020, saying to one of her guests, “I’ll bring this up if you are comfortable talking about it… I have spoken about the miscarriage we experienced. And I think in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for and to be able to be OK at a certain point to let something go, something go that you plan to love for a long time.”
Meghan’s second entry into the podcasting industry is Confessions of a Female Founder. It follows Spotify’s production of her first show, Archetypes, which was later canceled.
The new podcast, which Lemonada Media produces, has received a mixed response from the audience. One person described the series as “sycophantic,” and the other described it as “45 minutes of platitudes.”
The first episode, however, did top the overall podcast charts and topped the list of business podcasts since then, but it has since fallen off.
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Source: Mirror
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