Meghan Markle: I was treated like a ‘bimbo,’ ‘objectified’ on ‘Deal or No Deal’
nypost.comArchetypes” podcast.The Duchess of Sussex, 41, opened the episode reminiscing on her “fascinating” experience as a briefcase girl on “Deal or No Deal” while she was pursuing acting, a few years before landing her role in “Suits.”The former actress appeared on Season 2 of the show in 2006, and while she acknowledged that she was “grateful” for the job, she felt she was valued for all the wrong reasons.
Markle said she would be on set for the game show and think back to her time as a college intern at the US Embassy in Argentina, where she was “being valued specifically for my brain.”“Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite,” she said about “Deal or No Deal.”“There was a very cookie-cutter idea of precisely what we should look like,” Markle added, sharing that girls would line up at tapings for different stations where they would put on lashes, get extensions put in or get padding in their bras — and they even received spray tan vouchers every week.”“It was solely about beauty, and not necessarily about brains,” the Duchess said.Markle shared one detail she would “never forget,” when one producer on the show who couldn’t pronounce her last name would scream, “Mar-kell suck it in!” repeatedly.
She ended up quitting the show, revealing she was “thankful for the job, but not how it made me feel, which was not smart.”“I was surrounded by smart women on that stage with me but that wasn’t the focus of why we were there,” Markle said.“I would end up leaving with this pit in my stomach knowing I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage,” she continued. “I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks and little substance.
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