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Meghan Markle told her Archetypes podcast she was surrounded by “smart women” as a “Deal or No Deal” briefcase girl but “reduced” to “this specific archetype” in an episode titled “Breaking Down the Bimbo.”
The Duchess of Sussex interviewed Paris Hilton for her latest episode of her Spotify show, which aired on October 18, 2022.
Meghan said: “Like I said, I was thankful for the job but not for how it made me feel which was not smart.
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“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, and I would end up leaving with this pit in my stomach, knowing that I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage.
“I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks and little substance. And that’s how it felt for me at the time being reduced to this specific archetype.”
Meghan’s sentence then cuts into a clip of Clare Malone, a staff writer at The New Yorker, saying “the word bimbo” is used to “cut down a beautiful woman.”
The duchess was in the early stages of her acting career when she joined the game show in 2006. She said it allowed her to get money and health insurance and join the union.
She said: “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, 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. I mean, you have to imagine just to paint the picture for you that before the tapings of the show, all the girls, we would line up.
“And there were different stations for having your lashes, put on, or your extensions, put in, or the padding in your bra.
“We were even given spray-tan vouchers each week because there was a very cookie-cutter idea, of precisely what we should look like. It was solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains.”
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