Meghan Markle calls out ‘cruel’ bullying she experienced while pregnant with Archie and Lilibet
nypost.com“bullying” on social media while she was pregnant with her kids, Archie, 4, and Lilibet, 2. The Duchess of Sussex spoke on the dangers of social media during the “Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen” keynote discussion at South By South West in Austin, Texas.Moderator Errin Haines asked, “Social media really has become the place for women and girls to, be scrutinized, objectified, bullied, and unfortunately I know this is something you are all too familiar with.
How have you been able to manage the seemingly endless toxicity that comes at you?”Markle, 42, took a moment and gathered her thoughts as her husband, Prince Harry, 39, who sat next to Markus Anderson, the global membership director of Soho House, watched from the audience. “Yes, social media is an environment that I think has a lot of that,” she said Friday. “You know, I think it’s really interesting as I can reflect on it, I keep my distance from it right now just for my own well-being, but the bulk of the bullying and abuse that I was experiencing on social media and online was when I was pregnant with Archie and Lili, and with a newborn with each of them.”Markle reportedly felt “unprotected” by the monarchy while suffering “tremendous emotional distress” and mental health problems while carrying Archie.
She told Oprah Winfrey in the couple’s bombshell 2021 interview that she suffered with suicidal thoughts after they wed in 2018 about what was written about her in the British press.Archie was born on May 6, 2019 — just months before Harry and Meghan stepped down as members of the royal family in January 2020.
They welcomed daughter Lilibet on June 4, 2021, in their now-home state of California. Markle, who made an Instagram account in September but has yet to post anything, continued about the “bullying” at SXSW, “You just think about that, and to really wrap your head around why people would be so hateful.
