Meghan Markle makes candid confession about motherhood in latest podcast episode

Meghan Markle has revealed the experience of motherhood has been different to how she imagined it.

The mum-of-two spoke candidly during a chat with friend and entrepreneur Cassandra Thurswell in the latest episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder.

The Duchess of Sussex – who has son Prince Archie, six, and daughter Princess Lilibet, three – said she always wanted to be a mum when growing up but the reality isn’t what she expected.

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“I will say, for myself, especially when they’re baby babies and yes, the crying – and before I was mum, I’ve always wanted to be a mum – before I was a mum, I was like, ‘Oh gosh I’m going to give a speech with a baby on my hip’, I had a whole vision,” she said.

“And then, you fast forward, granted I had a lot of external things happening by the time I had both pregnancies and both babies.

“But, it was not the way I envisioned it.”

Thurswell, who is also a mum, to 10-year-old daughter Tula, could relate, saying she expected to be able to breastfeed in the office and juggle both motherhood and her growing beauty business, Kitsch.

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“I had my daughter, I thought everything was going to be just so easy,” Thurswell said.

“I would continue to just go on as my normal self, breastfeed at the office and do all these things, and I had a real reality check.

“I had some really intense post-partum anxiety, my husband really had to step in, and this was when we were really growing quickly, and it was such a crippling growth period for me, it was so hard, I felt like I wasn’t good at anything.

“It wasn’t until she was seven years old that I was like ‘I’m okay’.”

Speaking about the juggle of raising a family with the launch of her new brand, As ever, Meghan said she hopes it sets a positive example to the her two children.

“For me, it’s so important my kids see me as a working mum,” Meghan said.

The 43-year-old’s candid confessions about motherhood came just hours after she shared sweet family photos, including previously unseen shots of Archie and Lili, to celebrate her seven-year wedding anniversary with Prince Harry.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wed at St George’s Chapel in Windsor on May 19, 2018, before welcoming their son in May 2019.

Their daughter was born in June 2021, a year after the couple experienced a devastating miscarriage.

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