Meghan Markle remains vulnerable about all the highs and lows that come with the journey to parenthood.
The Duchess of Sussex opened up about experiencing pregnancy loss after she and Prince Harry welcomed their first child, Archie.
“I’ve spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced,” Meghan said on the latest episode of her podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder.”
The Duchess of Sussex spoke about her miscarriage on the latest episode of her podcast.
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“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,” the As Ever founder added.
Meghan was joined by Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, on Tuesday’s episode.
Saujani also spoke about her own pregnancy loss, and how it affected both her personal and professional life at the time.
“Oftentimes, I was performing in front of these children that I desperately wanted. And, I just got really good at that, but it was eating me up inside,” Saujani said.
She recalled one particular event where she was experiencing loss, as the activist was “sitting there in front of these girls and my heart was just breaking.”
“I had to detach because I felt like I was letting the girls down,” explained Saujani, who’s also the CEO of Moms First.
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Meghan first shared about experiencing pregnancy loss in an emotional opinion piece for The New York Times in 2020. She recalled changing Archie’s diaper when she suddenly “felt a sharp cramp.”
“I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right,” she wrote at the time. “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”
Meghan and Harry would go on to welcome a daughter named Lili in 2021.