The conversation touched on the emotional complexity of loss and the pressure to maintain composure while grieving
Meghan Markle has opened up about the personal heartbreak of suffering a miscarriage nearly five years ago. The Duchess of Sussex spoke candidly during the latest episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, in a conversation with Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and CEO of Moms First.
During the episode, Meghan reflected on the emotional toll of balancing public responsibilities while dealing with private grief. “I’ve spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced,” Meghan said. “I think in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for… to be okay at a certain point to let something go, something go that you planned to love for a long time.”
The conversation touched on the emotional complexity of loss and the pressure to maintain composure while grieving. Meghan had first shared her miscarriage experience in a powerful personal essay in November 2020, where she recounted the moment she felt a “sharp cramp” and collapsed while holding her son, Archie. “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” she wrote at the time.
The Duchess, who shares son Prince Archie, 5, and daughter Princess Lilibet, 3, with Prince Harry, emphasized how miscarriage is a deeply painful experience that is often suffered in silence. “Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few,” she said.
Meghan’s openness aims to bring awareness to an experience many face, hoping to break the silence surrounding miscarriage and offer comfort to others navigating similar pain.
