The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle says she was “objectified” and “treated like a bimbo” while working on “Deal or No Deal.”
During an episode of Archetypes,” the 41-year-old royal opened up about her time performing as a “briefcase girl” on the hit show “Deal or No Deal,” on which she appeared in the second season in 2006. Markle called the experience “fascinating” and said she was “grateful” for the job but added that she was objectified.
She said when she was working as a college intern at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, she was valued more for her brain. However, on the show, she says it was totally different.
“Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite,” she said about the game show, The New York Post reports.
“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.” She added: “It was solely about beauty, and not necessarily about brains.”
She says while she was in the company of women on stage who were intelligent she knew their purpose was nothing related to their smarts, the New York Post reports.
“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,” Markle went on. “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.”
