Meghan Markle reveals ‘huge medical scare’ after giving birth that was ‘so scary’ as first podcast episode drops
Meghan Markle has revealed she had a ‘huge medical scare’ during one of her pregnancies.
Speaking on the first episode of her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, which aired today, the Duchess of Sussex. 43, revealed that she suffered with preeclampsia during the pregnancy of one of her two children.
During the first episode of the podcast, Meghan interviewed the founder of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe.
The two discussed having both experienced preeclampsia, a medical complication which can occur during pregnancy and is characterised by high blood pressure, fluid and proteinuria.
Meghan, who shares her two children, Arhcie and Lilibet with Prince Harry, said the experience was ‘so scary’.
The series is the latest in the former Suits actress’s flurry of output after her much-criticised lifestyle series With Love, Meghan and her new brand As Ever.
Meghan also released a series of throwback photos, saying: ‘Being an entrepreneur can start young. (By the way, all these years later and I’m still selling cookies!)
‘Tune in for the premiere episode of ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’ featuring my dear friend, @whitney, now streaming wherever you get your podcasts! @lemonadamedia.’
Meghan Markle has revealed she had a ‘huge medical scare’ during one of her pregnancies.
The Duchess also told the New York Times in an email: ‘I hope ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’ reminds listeners they’re not alone. These are honest conversations with women who’ve built from the ground up, faced challenges and kept going.’
The newspaper reported that Meghan and Herd ‘discussed navigating media scrutiny, shaping a brand, spreading kindness, embracing self-love, prioritising family and finding strategies to tackle it all’.
A trailer for the show was released on March 25, with Meghan promising ‘girl talk’ and advice on how to create ‘billion-dollar businesses’.
Meghan told one guest to think of the experience as being in a ‘dolphin tank’ rather than a ‘shark tank’, asked another whether she is single now, talks about the ‘laser focus’ needed in business, and finished her voiceover with: ‘Let’s do this, ladies.’
The podcast will also follow the Duchess’s work on her As Ever brand which has now begun selling jam, herbal teas, flower sprinkles and ready-make crepe mix.
The new show is part of a deal signed in February last year with Lemonada Media, which follows her previous series Archetypes in 2022.
That show about female stereotypes ran for just one series, and was part of the Sussexes’ previous £20million deal with Spotify, which ended the year after.
Elsewhere in the interview, that was recorded in February, Meghan called Herd, 35, ‘the kind of friend who just always seems to know the exact right thing to say when I need perspective’.
Herd also spoke about Meghan’s ‘brutalising’ time in the public eye, telling her: ‘I do think there is so much to be said for your ability to exist, even in the presence of that.
‘It takes a very strong cookie. When I was going through the media storm and being called this and that, and this and that, at Tinder, I didn’t leave my house for, like, a month and a half.’
Meghan told Herd about being ‘absolutely consumed with packaging boxes’, adding: ‘That’s all I could think about. And I would sit there doing the unboxing in my head.’
And Herd said: ‘I think you have to really take a deep breath and say, ‘You know what, how big of a deal is this? If this is not going to be a defining issue in your business, your life, your family in five years, like, you’ll be fine.’
It comes just hours after Meghan’s husband Prince Harry landed in the UK, and King Charles III jetted off to Italy with Queen Camilla for a four-day state visit.
The Duke of Sussex is back in for an appeal against a High Court ruling on whether he is entitled to armed bodyguards paid for by the taxpayer.
