Meghan Markle, on the Ellen DeGeneres show: her obsession with Andie MacDowell's hair and other key moments
The Duchess of Sussex has taken advantage of her passage through the famous American program to show off her political activism and insist on her request that maternity leave in the country be paid
The last time Meghan Markle gave an interview on television, the foundations of Buckingham were shaken. It was in March of this year on the Oprah Winfrey show and the Duchess of Sussex and her husband, Prince Henry of England, made several harsh statements about her life within the British royal family, which they came to label as racist. This Thursday night, Markle has returned to a set to talk with Ellen DeGeneres, in one of the most successful programs on American television, but this time, the talk has been much more relaxed, relaxed, without references to her life in the United Kingdom. United and marked by childhood anecdotes and their current family life. ”We moved here during the pandemic and that allowed us to spend a lot of time at home together. We've decorated, we've created our home, plus [Enrique] likes the California lifestyle and the weather is pretty good. We are happy”, she has confessed, about her move to Montecito – where she has DeGeneres as a neighbor – and her new daily life away from London.
Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, had some pretty unique hair inspo when she was growing up. pic.twitter.com/jnguSEFPno
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) November 19, 2021
Upon her arrival on the show, Markle confessed that she went without sleeping because little Lili, five months old, is getting her first teeth. “She Until now she slept well, but she feels very uncomfortable with her teething. I do what any mother does, I give her cold teats to calm her down,” she explained. Before her confession, DeGeneres did not hesitate to respond with humor and advised her to give her "tequila" to calm her down. "I haven't tried that yet, I'm waiting for her aunt Ellen to come and give it to her," replied Markle, 40.
Throughout the interview, the Duchess of Sussex gave other details of her family life. She revealed, for example, that she will spend Thanksgiving next week in the kitchen, roasting the traditional turkey. "I love cooking. We will be together at home relaxed, ”she said. She also shared a picture of her firstborn, Archie, in the chicken coop at the family home, though without showing her face. "He is a very sweet boy," she assured the little boy, who is now two years old.
But one of the funniest and most unexpected moments of the night was when, following a self-portrait made when she was little in which she had drawn herself with prominent curly hair, the former actress confessed that at the age of 10 or 11 she was obsessed with curly hair. Andie MacDowell in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral. “All she wanted was that perfect curly hair. I asked my mom to go to the salon and on the first day she was like, 'This is amazing. I look like Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral', but people forgot to tell me that I had Afro hair, that I wasn't going to look like Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral and that's how it ended up evolving (referring to her hair). I went to school and I looked like Krusty the clown from The Simpsons."
In addition to offering a close and uncorseted image, Markle took advantage of her time on television to reinforce her activist profile and influence her commitment to fight for paid maternity leave in the country. “The United States is the only country that does not offer paid maternity leave by law. I am going to do everything in my power to make it law” Last October, the Duchess began this fight by addressing a letter to the United States Congress, an initiative that has been highly criticized by some Republican senators who support her. accused of using his title to pressure. Some attacks against which Markle has wanted to defend himself. “I think people really forget, or don't even know, that in this country, it's one of only six countries in the entire world and the only rich nation that doesn't have a federal paid maternity leave program. Everyone knows, especially if you have had a child, how difficult it is and how critical it is to abandon them in those first weeks, if not months, the family must be united in those moments. The fact that we don't offer maternity leave is something that, as a mother of two, I'm going to fight to make sure we can offer it to everyone," she said.
During his appearance on the show, there was also time for humor. As his guests are used to, Markle participated – at his own request – in a joke in which he had to obey the orders that came to him through a headset from the set, while buying at some street stalls. The duchess then followed one by one all the absurd instructions that were given to her, from touching some crystals, declaring that she had "healing powers" and doing a kind of spiritual session before the astonished look of one of the vendors to trying some sauces and asking him the shopkeeper to give her something "spicier" because "mommy wants a little heat." But, without a doubt, one of the stellar moments was when Markle put a headband with cat ears on her head and began to sing a song imitating a cat.
