Meghan Markle recalls her days of being a briefcase girl on “Deal or No Deal” as a grateful stepping stone she was glad to leave.
Markle claims she left the job in 2007 because she felt she was being reduced to a bimbo.
The Duchess of Sussex reflected on her brief stint on the game show, admitting she was really grateful to have a job that could pay her bills but felt there was little substance to the role.
“I ended up quitting the show. I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage,” she said. “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.’”
Markle, 41, spoke to Paris Hilton on her podcast show “Archetypes” and reflected on studying international relations in college and riding in a motorcade with a politician in Argentina and came to the conclusion that the job didn’t align with her values.
“I was grateful for the job, but not about how it made me feel, which was not smart,” she said. “By the way I was surrounded by smart women … but that wasn’t the focus.”
“It was like an assembly line when you showed up for work. The women would line up to receive lashes, hair extensions, padding for our bras, and even spray tan vouchers. It was all so cookie-cutter when you looked on it,” Markle explained about the show.
“It was solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains,” Markle recalled. “One of the women kept telling me to suck it in.”
Now a mother to two children, Markle says she aspires that her daughter Lilibet will be known for her brains rather than beauty.
“I want our daughter to aspire to be slightly higher,” Markle said. “Yeah, I want my Lili to want to be educated and want to be smart and to pride herself on those things.”
Markle appeared on “Deal or No Deal” from 2006 to 2007 before becoming a regular on USA Network’s “Suits” in 2011. She married Prince Harry in May 2018 and left the series and acting altogether.
Ahead of the now US-based couple’s royal wedding, “Deal or No Deal” host Howie Mandel admitted he didn’t remember Markle’s time on the series.
Please. You got paid to stand and look pretty, which you are and hold a suitcase with a number in it. You made that choice. Your attitude is ruining your beauty.