Meghan Markle Claims She Was Told to ‘Suck It In’ While Working on ‘Deal or No Deal’: I Was ‘Reduced’ to a Bimbo
usmagazine.comNot so fond memories. Meghan Markle opened up about her time on Deal or No Deal, revealing that she often felt like the show reduced her to a “bimbo.”“Now, my experience on the show – which included holding said briefcase on stage, alongside 25 other women doing the same – was … for me, fascinating,” the Duchess of Sussex, 41, recalled on the Tuesday, October 18, episode of her “Archetypes” podcast. “There were times when I was on set at Deal or No Deal and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S.
Embassy in Argentina, in Buenos Aires … and being in the motorcade with the Secretary of Treasury at the time and being valued specifically for my brain.
Here I was being valued for something quite the opposite.”Markle explained that before taping the game show, all of the “briefcase girls” would “line up” backstage to get glammed up.“There were different stations for having your lashes put on or extensions put in, or the padding in your bra,” the Bench author recalled before speaking to guest Paris Hilton, adding that the girls were given “spray tan vouchers” so that they would all fit into the show’s “cookie cutter” ideal of beauty. “When I look back at that time, I’ll never forget this one detail. … There was a woman who ran the show and she’d be there backstage and I can still hear her … she’d go, ‘Markle, suck it in!
Markle, suck it in!'”While she was grateful to have the ability to pay her bills while auditioning for other acting roles, Markle eventually realized that she needed to leave Deal or No Deal because she hated the way it made her feel about herself. “And by the way, I was surrounded by smart women on that stage with me, but that wasn’t the focus of why we were there,” she explained. “I would
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