Meghan Markle has a partner who will come to her defense! In the third episode of her podcast, the Duchess of Sussex shares with guest Mindy Kaling how her husband, Prince Harry, reacted to the idea of people saying she was lucky to be in a relationship with him.While chatting with star about how women are sometimes convinced that a man choosing them shows their worth, the 41-year-old royal shared how she and her husband pushed back that notion. “When I started dating my husband, when we became engaged, everyone was like, ‘Oh My god, you’re just so lucky he chose you.’ And a certain point, after you hear it a million times over, you’re like, ‘Well, I chose him too,’” Meghan shares. “But thankfully, I have a partner who was countering that narrative for me and going, ‘They’ve got it all wrong.
I'm the lucky one because you chose me.’ But it is gendered and it’s archetyped and it’s stereotyped that ‘you’re so lucky,’ and it just feeds into this idea that you’re waiting for someone to tell you that you’re good enough as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own,” she adds.
Meghan tied the knot with Harry in 2018. The couple are the parents of Archie, 3, and 1-year-old Lilibet. While the duchess appears to have always been the prettiest girl in the group, she revealed that it wasn’t until she was older that she grew out of being “the smart one.” “I never had anyone to sit with at lunch,” she shares with Mindy.“I was always a little bit of a loner and really shy and didn’t know where to fit in.
So, I was like, ‘Well, OK, I'll just become the president of multi-culture club, and the president of sophomore class and the president of this and French club.
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