Meghan Markle ‘humbled’ by naked spa visits as a teen, she says in new podcast

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The Duchess of Sussex’s Archetypes podcast has resumed on Spotify after a four-week break following the death of the Queen. Meghan, in her latest episode released on Tuesday, explores the “Dragon Lady” stereotype with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho.The duchess began by talking about her experience of growing up in Los Angeles which was “full of culture that you could see, feel, hear and taste on a daily basis” and said she had a “real love” of getting to know other cultures.

She spoke of going to a Korean spa with her mother as a teenager, adding: “It’s a very humbling experience for a girl going through puberty because you enter a room with women from ages nine to maybe 90, all walking around naked and waiting to get a body scrub on one of these tables that are all lined up in a row.

All I wanted was a bathing suit.” “Once I was over that adolescent embarrassment, my mom and I, we would go upstairs we would sit in a room and we would have a steaming bowl of the most delicious noodles,” she said.

Meghan said she was not aware of the stigmas faced by women of Asian descent until many years later.The duchess said: “The Dragon Lady, the East Asian temptress whose mysterious foreign allure is scripted as both tantalising and deadly. “This has seeped into a lot of our entertainment.