Meghan Markle and Mariah Carey are getting candid.
The 41-year-old Duchess of Sussex hosted the 53-year-old performer for the second episode of her Archetypes podcast, which was released on Tuesday (August 30).
During the interview – titled “The Duality of Diva” – the pair discussed the negative perception of “divas” and spoke about being biracial.
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“You were so formative for me. Representation matters so much,” Meghan told Mariah at the start of the episode. “But when you are a woman and you don’t see a woman who looks like you somewhere in a position of power or influence, or even just on the screen — because we know how influential media is — you came onto the scene, I was like ‘Oh, my gosh. Someone kind of looks like me. ‘”
“I had read this article about Halle Berry, and they were asking her how she felt being treated as a mixed-race woman in the world. And her response was her saying, ‘Well, your experience through the world is how people view you.’ So she said because she was darker in color, she was being treated as a Black woman, not as a mixed woman,” she continued. “And I think for us, it’s very different because we’re light-skinned. You’re not treated as a Black woman. You’re not treated as a white woman. You sort of fit in between.”
Meghan added: “I mean, if there’s any time in my life that it’s been more focused on my race, it’s only once I started dating my husband [Prince Harry.] Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a Black woman. Because up until then, I had been treated like a mixed woman. And things really shifted.”
Mariah agreed with the sentiment, sharing that she felt she had been forced to identify as either Black or white.
“As mixed woman, because I always thought it should be okay to say I’m mixed. Like it should be okay to say that. But people want you to choose,” she said as Meghan agreed.
Listen to the full episode down below.
The new Archetypes episode comes a day after Meghan made headlines for a comment she made about Harry‘s father Prince Charles. Find out what she said here.
Source: Showbiz PH Insider
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