The 42-year-old Duchess of Sussex joined actress Brooke Shields and longtime news anchor Katie Couric on-stage at the prestigious festival.
Meghan Markle put her most fashionable foot forward as she marked International Women's Day in true Hollywood style by appearing on a celebrity-studded panel at SXSW - while her husband Prince Harry cheered her on from the front row.
Throughout the panel discussion, Harry, 39, was seen gazing up at his wife from the front row, joining his fellow guests in applauding Meghan - whom he joined for a date night on Thursday at the Austin venue of private members' club Soho House. The Duchess began by gushing about her 'excitement' to be joining the panel, before going on to tout the many female-focused initiatives that she and Prince Harry work on through their nonprofit, the Archewell Foundation.
'On a personal level, I’ve just always loved understanding women and our stories and our lived experiences and our shared experiences so I was really curious to see what the report was going to uncover. She went on to note that Archewell's production arm is focusing more on its own representation of women and mothers 'as it expands its slate' of projects, both on-screen and in podcasting.
She questioned how anyone could 'do that' to a an expectant or new mother - noting that much of the vitriol she was seeing online was coming from women trying to take down other women.MEGHAN PRAISES HARRY FOR BEING AN 'INCREDIBLE PARTNER' AND A 'HANDS-ON' DAD 'But it can also be really dizzying for them to see this portrayal of motherhood that looks so perfect, when we all know that it's not perfect. We all know that it's messy.
Meghan wore a silky maxi skirt and a matching shirt in a muted silver-beige tone, accessorizing with some chunky gold earrings 'If you look out on the screen, or you look out in the world, and you see no one that looks like you, it is incomprehensible for most people to imagine that they can have that level of success or joy or strength.'
'I was 11 years old, about 11 years old, and I had seen a commercial on TV for a dishwashing liquid, and the boys in my class at the time... you know it said,"Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans," and the boys said,"Yeah that's where women belong, in the kitchen,"' Meghan recalled.
Meghan appeared on Nick News after lobbying the manufacturing company to change a TV ad for dishwashing liquid in 1993 'Social media's omnipresence has raised the stakes, creating an often dangerous environment which has led to serious mental health issues for teenage girls in particular. Although the Duchess of Sussex touched on some very serious topics throughout the panel - including the dangers of social media for kids - she appeared upbeat for most of the chat
Meghan and Harry are understood to have arrived in Austin on Thursday - when they were spotted grabbing dinner at the city's Soho House location in a sweet throwback to their first date, which was enjoyed at one of the private members' club's London venues. Harry opened up about his first date with his wife in his bombshell memoir, Spare, admitting in the tome that he had actually arrived late at the venue, much to his horror.
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