Meghan claims freckles cost her acting work
Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex missed out on acting work because of her freckles. The 43-year-old royal has recalled how she was constantly rejected for beauty and skincare advertisements as an aspiring actress because her complexion wasn't considered to be perfect. In conversation with IT Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima on her 'Confessions of a Female Founder' podcast, Meghan said: 'I was an auditioning actor, auditioning for commercials and I remember my commercial agent could not submit me for beauty or skincare ads because I had freckles.
'They were like: 'No, no, it's just never going to work because freckles aren't a sign of beauty.' It was just, you couldn't see yourself reflected there.'
The former 'Suits' star – who was known as Meghan Markle until she married Prince Harry in 2018 – also revealed that her race worked against her during her attempts to establish herself in the industry.
The duchess explained: 'I heard 'no' all the time, especially because I wasn't cookie-cutter for a specific type. 'And at the start of my auditioning career, you were either the Black girl or the white girl or the Latina girl. Everything was typecast so being mixed I could get into a lot of rooms that meant as a numbers game I heard 'no' even more.'
Meghan and Harry – who are parents to Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three - stepped down as working members of the British royal family in 2020 before relocating to California and she recently e x p l a i n e d that she is the 'happiest (she's) ever been' in her life.
She said at the TIME 100 Summit in New York: ' I'm the happiest I've ever been.
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