Meghan Markle has never shied away from championing honesty and vulnerability, but her latest revelation has struck a deeper chord than anyone expected.
In the most recent episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, the Duchess of Sussex welcomed Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, for a conversation that many assumed would center around tech, motherhood, and leadership.
Instead, it unfolded into a profoundly raw exchange about grief, strength, and the often invisible burdens women carry.
Listeners were left stunned as Meghan, now 43, peeled back the curtain on an intensely private moment from her past.
Without sensationalism, she gently steered the conversation into deeply personal territory, giving Saujani space to discuss her own experience with miscarriage — before echoing it with a story that took everyone by surprise.
“There’s no way to keep showing up for others if you’re not doing it with authenticity,” Meghan said. “And sometimes, that means being honest about pain.”
Social media lit up within minutes of the episode dropping. Support poured in across platforms.
“You stay strong Meghan,” wrote one fan. “It’s very brave of you to talk about this,” said another.
What followed was a moment of heartbreak that reminded the world of Meghan’s resilience.
In her own words, she described the moment everything changed. A moment from 2020, when she was alone with her son Archie at their Los Angeles home and suddenly felt something was terribly wrong.
“I’ve spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced,”
she told Saujani.
“You have to learn to detach from the thing you had so much promise and hope for… something you planned to love for a long time.”
It was the third time Meghan had publicly addressed the loss of her second pregnancy.
She first opened up about it in a 2020 op-ed for The New York Times, where she described feeling a sharp cramp and instinctively knowing something wasn’t right as she held Archie in her arms.
The contrast between the cheerful lullaby she sang to soothe him and the panic rising in her chest remains one of the most haunting lines she’s ever written.
Prince Harry, too, later reflected on the loss in his memoir Spare, describing how the couple wept together as they left the hospital with their unborn child.
He shared how they buried the “tiny package” under a banyan tree — a secret place only they knew.
In their 2022 Netflix documentaries, Harry blamed the immense stress and public scrutiny at the time, particularly their legal battle against The Daily Mail, as a likely contributing factor.
Meghan’s recent comments come amid her return to the public eye through storytelling and advocacy.
In the same podcast episode, she also revealed a medical scare she faced after giving birth — postpartum preeclampsia — a dangerous condition that demands urgent care.
“The world doesn’t know what’s happening quietly,”
she said, highlighting how women often carry medical and emotional trauma while still showing up for others.
Now a mother to Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, Meghan continues to speak not just as a duchess or a celebrity, but as a mother who knows loss, recovery, and the weight of silence.
Her willingness to revisit that painful chapter has opened a larger conversation about miscarriage, maternal health, and the quiet resilience of women around the world.
Because sometimes, the most powerful thing someone can say is simply,
“I’ve been there too.”
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