The Duchess Meghan (41) retraces the previous television stunts.
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Duchess Meghan launched the podcast “Archetypes (Archetypes, trans. Norwegian, ed) “in August. He then explained that the aim is to deal with” labels and models that try to limit women and put them in the stall“.
I Tuesday episode remembers the American Meghan in 2006, when she was one of 25 women luggage carriers in the game show “Deal or No Deal”.
– This was for me fascinatingsays the Duchess about the concept, which was also created in the Norwegian version on TV 2 at the same time.
– I had studied acting and, like many of the other women I shared the stage with, I wanted to be an actress. So even though “Deal and No Deal” wasn’t about acting, I was really grateful. Having a paid job on my way to auditions, she explains.
Meghan points out that as an employee she was part of a union, received health insurance and other benefits.
– It was amazing! But still — I had also studied international relations in college, says Meghan and she recounts how she at the time traveled from embassy to embassy overseas and was “particularly appreciated for her brain.”
– But here I was appreciated for that rather on the contrary, says Meghan and describes how she and the other hostesses in the suitcase were made up, styled and embellished to the tips of their fingers before each broadcast.
– It was all about beauty, and not necessarily the brain, says the Duchess.
She decided to leave the TV show because it made her feel objectified and unintelligent. Meghan makes it clear that the other suitcases were smart women too, but she only speaks for herself.
– I have reduced myself to this particular archetype, says Meghan before presenting an audio clip of the voice of the New York journalist Clare Malone, speaking of the term baby.
Malone says that bimbo is a word “used to reduce a beautiful woman to someone who is perhaps cheap or stupid”.
– This archetype of stupid and blond has taken hold in culture. How can we unplug this? Meghan asks in the podcast.
The Duchess, whose surname was Markle, retired as an actor in 2017. Then it became known that she was going to marry British Prince Harry (38). At the time, she Meghan had a role in the TV series “Suits”.
Meghan, who is now a mother of two, hopes her daughter Lilibet (1) will be appreciated for her skills rather than her looks.
– I want you to aim a little higher. Yes, I want my Lili to get an education and seek knowledge – and for her to be proud of it, says Meghan.
In each episode of the podcast, the Duchess talks to other prominent women. In the latest episode, the sixth in a row, she brings with her hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton (41), a woman who also had to endure being put on a booth because of her looks.
– Today she defines herself as she wants, says the Duchess of her famous guest.
