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Meghan back on Instagram

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PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 01/01/2025 17:21

Looks like she’s back on Instagram

www.instagram.com/meghan/reel/DESeJO5vFSN/

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smilesy · 03/01/2025 20:20

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:18

Your opinion.

😊

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:24

CheeseandMarmiteToastie · 03/01/2025 20:00

Stacey Solomon is an interesting comparison, as a pp said she does a similar kind of show but she’s everything Meghan isn’t - warm, honest and genuine. Like or dislike her, you can’t buy or create that kind of authenticity.

She has a new lifestyle show coming soon, maybe M can watch for some tips 😂

she’s everything Meghan isn’t - warm, honest and genuine. Like or dislike her, you can’t buy or create that kind of authenticity

You know neither of these people. It's so bizarre how some talk like they do, thinking they know whether they are "warm, honest, and genuine" just because they've seen them on the telly or whatever.
Bizarre but fascinating. You couldn't pay me enough to be famous, the amount of weirdos out there proclaiming you're a cold fish or not genuine just because you didn't smile right that day when they saw you, or you held your bump "incorrectly" OMG attention seeker. 🙄😁

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:33

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:05

That's not actually correct.

Kate wore a one shouldered dress. It was fine. She held her bump. As for the avocados....

Not on a formal occasion, if I recall correctly...

Kate rested her hand on her bump. She didn't cling to it for grim death!

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:33

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 16:26

The negative tone only really took off after the Oprah interview.

Totally disagree

There are many examples from the early days. Poisonous lily of the valley, Kate used the flowers and it signified love, Meghan used it, she was trying to poison Charlotter! Kate using scents for the church but when Meghan did it, it was pilloried. So sweet that Kate cradles her bump, but Meghan is attention seeking.
I think history is being rewritten here, this was all before Oprah, I remember the endless negativity about her.

You're definitely correct, people have their head in the sand if they think it was only negative after Oprah.
I remember all of those.
Also the eating avocado ridiculousness was another one, where the comparisons between articles on Kate and Meghan were stark in their coverage.

Serenster · 03/01/2025 20:35

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:07

I presume you didn't see the headlines and articles at the time

I did. And I recall there being a plethora of clickbait articles about Meghan which weren’t necessarily negative per se, they were just shoehorning Meghan in some way into a story to promote clicks. Generally in a way that would provoke a strong reaction in the reader, so skewing negative rather than positive - but such is the current nature of the media.

What Meghan didn’t experience however - thankfully, for her - were the news practices that had become illegal, or were no longer adopted, following Leveson. She never had her phone hacked, for example. She never had her car tracked, and her locations plotted. She wasn’t physically harrassed by hordes of photographers, or photographed topless without her consent. All of this is a good thing, and I am am very pleased that these practices are no longer current. But it means you cannot point to what Meghan experienced and compare it to Kate, and cry “racism”. The UK press had changed massively in the period in which they came to pubic attention. Both of them had to endure horrific, misogynistic press coverage. But you compare them - they are apples and oranges.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:36

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:14

I find it utterly distasteful to criticise a woman how she copes with, and holds her bump.

There are articles out there saying how lovely it is that Kate cradles her bump.

I am a GM and I would hate to think I criticise a woman for how she feels about her bump.

We are women on here who should be applauding all those pregnant however they are with their bumps.

Really?? 😂

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:39

smilesy · 03/01/2025 20:17

I have no problem with women cradling their bumps. I have been pregnant 3 times and I often stroke or patted or supported my bump. I never did that one arm above or one below thing and I don’t know anyone irl who did. Meghan is clearly cradling her bump
for the cameras. That is not a natural action. Don’t pretend it is

Same! I had my first pregnancy after years of infertility and my third after two miscarriages.

I never, ever made a show of myself in public like that!

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:40

Lavenderfarmcottage · 03/01/2025 17:41

If I were there PR I’d advise rhem to have a home base in the UK - something palatial with dogs and chess boards and kilts.

They should keep visiting overseas countries on the low and join forces with 5 other celebrities couples to bring awareness to serious causes around the world.

I’d advise they ditch all the shows and books and just invest their money and call it a day and promote really great causes.

Why on earth would they want a home base in the UK?!
They wanted to escape the toxicity of the British press and have a half decent chance of a bit of privacy re family life by getting out and moving to the US.
I can't imagine them wanting to come back to the toxic British shit show media anything less😂

pelargoniums · 03/01/2025 20:41

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:14

I find it utterly distasteful to criticise a woman how she copes with, and holds her bump.

There are articles out there saying how lovely it is that Kate cradles her bump.

I am a GM and I would hate to think I criticise a woman for how she feels about her bump.

We are women on here who should be applauding all those pregnant however they are with their bumps.

Agreed. I held my bump from below, both pregnancies, all the time. It hurt otherwise! Other hand naturally goes on top; also I liked feeling my babies.

It’s such a weird thing to criticise her for when there’s so much else to take shots at, from the sane (she’s quite flexible with the truth, doesn’t ever seem to finish projects just launch them) to the rude (her haters are weirdly obsessed with the size of her feet).

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:41

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:36

Really?? 😂

Yes. Really.

I don't criticise a woman with a pregnancy. You may do, your prerogative

Oh... and... 😅

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:42

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:06

Really do not think so.

I really do think so.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:43

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:41

Yes. Really.

I don't criticise a woman with a pregnancy. You may do, your prerogative

Oh... and... 😅

How noble.

😂

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:45

pelargoniums · 03/01/2025 20:41

Agreed. I held my bump from below, both pregnancies, all the time. It hurt otherwise! Other hand naturally goes on top; also I liked feeling my babies.

It’s such a weird thing to criticise her for when there’s so much else to take shots at, from the sane (she’s quite flexible with the truth, doesn’t ever seem to finish projects just launch them) to the rude (her haters are weirdly obsessed with the size of her feet).

Agree. I probably held mine up! I had huge babies. I felt comfortable doing that, and I would not dream of criciticising a heavily pregnant woman. It's mean.

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:45

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:39

Same! I had my first pregnancy after years of infertility and my third after two miscarriages.

I never, ever made a show of myself in public like that!

You never made a show of yourself whilst being pregnant in public?
Easy to say you were the perfect lady "presenting yourself just right" ,🙄 when you're sat anonymously behind a keyboard bitching at someone you clearly think isn't as perfect so is fair game for pregnancy judging.
Much better for all if we don't make it into a competition with each other, pretty sad to pit and compare ourselves against other pregnant women.

WinterCrow · 03/01/2025 20:46

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:40

Why on earth would they want a home base in the UK?!
They wanted to escape the toxicity of the British press and have a half decent chance of a bit of privacy re family life by getting out and moving to the US.
I can't imagine them wanting to come back to the toxic British shit show media anything less😂

How do you explain their original position of wanting 'half in, half out'?

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:48

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:24

she’s everything Meghan isn’t - warm, honest and genuine. Like or dislike her, you can’t buy or create that kind of authenticity

You know neither of these people. It's so bizarre how some talk like they do, thinking they know whether they are "warm, honest, and genuine" just because they've seen them on the telly or whatever.
Bizarre but fascinating. You couldn't pay me enough to be famous, the amount of weirdos out there proclaiming you're a cold fish or not genuine just because you didn't smile right that day when they saw you, or you held your bump "incorrectly" OMG attention seeker. 🙄😁

Rightly or wrongly, people in the public eye create an impression of how they are.

They could be totally different behind closed doors but the public takes them as they appear to be unless they find out differently.

MM and SS have chosen life in the public eye. They are going to get talked about. They are going to get judged. Their choice! Who are the attention seekers again??

mathanxiety · 03/01/2025 20:48

MrsLeonFarrell · 01/01/2025 18:40

His surname is Mountbatten Windsor, he just doesn't use it because he is a Duke and that supercedes it. When Archie was born that was his announced name.

I think they announced recently that they were all going to use Sussex as a surname, in the same way he and William were known and William and Harry Wales at school. But it isn't his family name, that's M-W.

It's all weird but once you introduce titles names go weird.

I thought Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) is the 'House of...' name and not necessarily a surname?

Bachboo · 03/01/2025 20:50

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 13:32

Does it honestly honestly not occur to you that these sort of criticisms that were levelled at Meghan, whilst applauding Kate for the same thing.. might not have a racist element to it?

Why otherwise?

Let's take just one....

"Kate's morning sickness cure. An avocado gifted to William for pregnant Kate"

"Meghan's avocados linked to human rights abuse and drought. Meghan wolfing down a fruit linked to water shortages, illegal deforestation and all round general environmental devastation"

Do you not find that odd? And that's just one out of very very many.

I’m afraid I don’t

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:50

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:45

You never made a show of yourself whilst being pregnant in public?
Easy to say you were the perfect lady "presenting yourself just right" ,🙄 when you're sat anonymously behind a keyboard bitching at someone you clearly think isn't as perfect so is fair game for pregnancy judging.
Much better for all if we don't make it into a competition with each other, pretty sad to pit and compare ourselves against other pregnant women.

No 1, I didn't seek out the limelight. No2, my pregnancy was my business, and I acted professionally throughout. No need to flaunt it to anyone.

Same as the majority of pregnant women!

Mylovelygreendress · 03/01/2025 20:52

Serenster · 03/01/2025 20:35

I did. And I recall there being a plethora of clickbait articles about Meghan which weren’t necessarily negative per se, they were just shoehorning Meghan in some way into a story to promote clicks. Generally in a way that would provoke a strong reaction in the reader, so skewing negative rather than positive - but such is the current nature of the media.

What Meghan didn’t experience however - thankfully, for her - were the news practices that had become illegal, or were no longer adopted, following Leveson. She never had her phone hacked, for example. She never had her car tracked, and her locations plotted. She wasn’t physically harrassed by hordes of photographers, or photographed topless without her consent. All of this is a good thing, and I am am very pleased that these practices are no longer current. But it means you cannot point to what Meghan experienced and compare it to Kate, and cry “racism”. The UK press had changed massively in the period in which they came to pubic attention. Both of them had to endure horrific, misogynistic press coverage. But you compare them - they are apples and oranges.

I also don’t remember Meghan being chased down the road , having her car surrounded and photographers trying to upskirt her .

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:53

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:40

Why on earth would they want a home base in the UK?!
They wanted to escape the toxicity of the British press and have a half decent chance of a bit of privacy re family life by getting out and moving to the US.
I can't imagine them wanting to come back to the toxic British shit show media anything less😂

Indeed they did not. They wanted to cherrypick what they did as royals while making money from commercial activities. TG the late Queen saw them coming!

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:54

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:45

Agree. I probably held mine up! I had huge babies. I felt comfortable doing that, and I would not dream of criciticising a heavily pregnant woman. It's mean.

My heaviest baby was heading for 10lbs at 38 weeks.

I never needed two hands to cradle my bump!

NotaRealHousewife · 03/01/2025 20:55

10lbs!

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 03/01/2025 20:56

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 03/01/2025 20:45

You never made a show of yourself whilst being pregnant in public?
Easy to say you were the perfect lady "presenting yourself just right" ,🙄 when you're sat anonymously behind a keyboard bitching at someone you clearly think isn't as perfect so is fair game for pregnancy judging.
Much better for all if we don't make it into a competition with each other, pretty sad to pit and compare ourselves against other pregnant women.

IF it had only been the performative "look at me, I'm pregnant' shit I could probably have overlooked it as being a bit OTT.

Taken in the context of her behaviour since - different story!

smilesy · 03/01/2025 20:57

TulipTiptoer · 03/01/2025 20:45

Agree. I probably held mine up! I had huge babies. I felt comfortable doing that, and I would not dream of criciticising a heavily pregnant woman. It's mean.

It’s not a criticism of a pregnant woman, it’s a criticism of a performance she is giving. Meghan clearly isn’t supporting her bump because she is uncomfortable. She is “framing” it for the cameras. Same with the coat flicking

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