Growing up biracial in Los Angeles, Meghan Markle never saw herself as the pretty one. “I was the nerdy girl,” she once admitted. The daughter of a Black mother and white father, she faced constant questions about her identity from strangers who couldn’t believe her mother was actually her mother.
Her childhood was far from glamorous—TV dinners, after-school hours on the “Married…With Children” set where her father worked, and the occasional treat of a Sizzler salad bar. When her father won the lottery, it opened doors to better schools, but young Meghan still worked multiple jobs, from scooping frozen yogurt to babysitting, determined to carve her own path.
That determination led her to acting, then to royalty when she married Prince Harry in 2018. But behind the fairy tale were painful struggles—a life-threatening postpartum experience, a heartbreaking miscarriage, and the ongoing challenge of finding her voice in the spotlight. Through it all, one lesson stayed with her: “You need to know that you’re enough.”
