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- Meghan Markle was joined by Jamie Kern Lima on the latest episode of her Confessions of a Female Founder podcast which landed on Tuesday, April 29
- Kern Lima recalled struggling to get investors for her business, IT Cosmetics, in the early days of her beauty business
- The Duchess of Sussex spoke candidly about being able to relate as she received rejections “all the time” in the early days of her acting career, some of which she attributed to her race
Meghan Markle is reflecting on the resilience she needed to become an actor.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, was joined by Jamie Kern Lima, the co-founder of IT Cosmetics, on the April 29 episode of her ‘Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan’ podcast.
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Having heard how Kern Lima, 47, was repeatedly turned away by potential investors in the early days of her beauty business, Meghan spoke candidly about being about to relate as she also received rejections at the start of her acting career.
“Oh, Jamie. As you’re talking about all these nos for me, it’s what I was doing before I was acting,” Meghan said. “Oh my gosh. Oh, please. I heard no all the time, especially because I wasn’t cookie-cutter for a specific type.
“At the start of my auditioning career, you were either the Black girl or the White girl or the Latina girl or the like, everything was typecast,” she continued. “So being mixed, I could get into a lot of rooms. That meant as a numbers game, heard no even more.” Meghan went on to appear in legal drama Suits for seven seasons.
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The discussion about overcoming career hurdles came after Meghan did her first-ever podcast interview during an appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show on Monday, April 28.
In a snippet, Kern Lima became “emotional” as Meghan spoke candidly about spending much of her life “trying to prove something.”
“To prove that you’re enough. You have to prove that you’re pretty enough. You have to prove that you’re smart enough,” she said. “You prove that you’re a good wife or a good friend or and I was like, ‘I am just so done with the prove it game.’ And if you can’t see it, I can’t, I don’t need to prove to you why that’s your loss.”
“Because I know that I’m a great friend, and I know the kind of mom I am, and I know the kind of human being I am,” Meghan, who shares Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, with husband Prince Harry, added.
