In the latest episode of her Spotify podcast Archetypes, MeghanMarkle looked back on her experience as a “briefcase girl” on the US TV show Deal Or No Deal, explaining how the job inspired her to think deeper about the work she wanted to pursue.
Deal Or No DealBack in 2006, Meghan’s role on the show was to hold a briefcase “on stage, alongside 25 other women [doing] the same”, and came at a time when she was trying to make her name in the acting world. Though the gig obviously “wasn’t about acting”, she explains, she was “still really grateful as an auditioning actress to have a job that could pay my bills”.
All of this, she says, was to make them fit into “a very cookie cutter idea of precisely what we should look like”, and one of her bosses would tell her to suck in her stomach before going on 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.”
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