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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, spoke about her spontaneous abortion in 2020 in a new episode of her podcast.
The former Meghan Markle shared her perspective on how to face the anguish of the loss of pregnancy with Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and executive director of Moms First.
Meghan spoke with Saujani in the second episode of “confessions of a founder”, published on Tuesday, focused on the redesign of the work environment for women and overcoming the loss.
“And I will mention it if you feel comfortable talking about it, because I know you have spoken publicly while working at Girls Who Code, about all the interpersonal situations that happen to you at that time and the spontaneous abortions you have experienced,” Meghan said.
“I have talked about the spontaneous abortion we suffer,” he continued. I think that, somehow parallel, you have to learn to get rid of what promises and wait, and to be able to accept, come a certain point, let something you plan to love for a long time.
Meghan revealed that he suffered a spontaneous abortion in July 2020 in an opinion article published by The New York Times in November 2020. He has two children, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, with her husband, Prince Harry.
Saujani, who has suffered multiple spontaneous abortions due to his autoimmune problems, described Meghan’s words as “really revealing” and as if Markle were “reading my newspapers.”
“I don’t think anyone has seen it that way, nor has he said so for me,” Saujani said. He then shared his own experience of taking off from the heartbreaking news of his own spontaneous abortions.
“I should have gone home, sleep and snuggle with my husband, but I just breathed deeply and introduced me in a room, in a stage, and acted.”
He added that he felt so overwhelmed that he gave his business to his team for a few months “just to breathe” after a “series of spontaneous failures.”
Meghan told Saujani that “courage” is needed to ask for help.
“And there is no way to continue presenting and be an example for these young women, if you do not do it with total authenticity, because you are on the verge of exhaustion,” he added.
