Meghan Markle and Prince Harry News and Updates

[Anonymous]

What happened to stepping back from being public figures? Have they done that at all?

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Anonymous wrote:Look, nobody thinks this is going to happen to them. Until it does. All the warnings and lectures aren't going to work. Same as people think they can tra la la dine out, visit family, have parties, and not get Covid. And then they are shocked, shocked it happened to them. It's human nature. You're invincible until you get a rude awakening in some way. The circle of life.

Yup. And I actually think it's a waste of time and energy to focus so much on early miscarriages. Why are we even talking about this? It's super common, it's happened to many people, I get that it might take some time to process and everyone deserves empathy, but honestly, there's nothing about an early miscarriage that deserves more empathy to me than a person who never conceived at all despite trying, or a person who conceived accidentally and needs to terminate, or a person who conceived a wanted child and has other stressors in her life. To me they are all the same. I dislike the idea that an early miscarriage somehow makes you special in any way.

Now, if we were talking about infant and maternal mortality rates in the US, especially among black women, that's a different story. That's about women you are literally dying because of a racist healthcare system. We actually need to talk WAY MORE about that. But instead we're sitting around talking about whether and to what degree we feel sorry for a privileged lady who already has a child experiencing an extremely common conception outcome? Why?

"Raise awareness" my ass. This is about attracting sympathy, full stop.

+1 I agree this feels more like her typical bid for attention, particularly the way she stages it around the "Are you okay?" directed toward her on the Africa trip. It just did not read like an outward reach to other people suffering terribly at this horrible time. It read "Me Me Me."

She's trying really hard to make "are you ok" happen. It didn't take a few months ago so now she's rebooting it. I wonder if Michael Jackson should get credit from his line "Annie are you ok?" or "Annie, Annie, are you ok?!" that I learned in CPR classes. It's nothing new and she's trying to make it her "thing".

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Anonymous wrote:What happened to stepping back from being public figures? Have they done that at all?

They're happy to step forward when they can monetize it and/or generate positive publicity.

[Anonymous]

I usually like her but her "Are You OK?" sounds almost as vapid and silly as "Be Best."

[Anonymous]

The piece sounded very staged, like a PR piece. My guess she is pregnant again, and that's why she is sharing now - the pain is less acute. I was a bit older than her when I had two losses in a row, both in the first trimester. It's very painful, but quite normal and expected.

[Anonymous]

why so open about this unhappy incident and untruthful about Archie's birthday etc?

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Anonymous wrote:I think she’s trying to decrease the stigma - other celebrities have done the same (the guy from Dawson’s Creek, etc). She probably thought she was helping people by sharing something deeply personal, as someone who is perceived to have a “charmed” life. I don’t think it was insincere.

What stigma???

There is no stigma. Practically everyone I know has had at least one miscarriage. I had three. I also have kids.

PP here and I agree. I’ve never perceived a stigma, and I don’t get it but others who’ve been through miscarriages have spoken about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The piece sounded very staged, like a PR piece. My guess she is pregnant again, and that's why she is sharing now - the pain is less acute. I was a bit older than her when I had two losses in a row, both in the first trimester. It's very painful, but quite normal and expected.

This was exactly my thought too — pregnant again, telling this story now before announcing next one as part of narrative strategy.

Regardless, it’s sad - albeit increasingly less surprising - to see 7th grade writing and celebrity striver stuff in the NYT. I mean there are sentences in here that never would have made it past the edit desk a decade ago.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The piece sounded very staged, like a PR piece. My guess she is pregnant again, and that's why she is sharing now - the pain is less acute. I was a bit older than her when I had two losses in a row, both in the first trimester. It's very painful, but quite normal and expected.

This was exactly my thought too — pregnant again, telling this story now before announcing next one as part of narrative strategy.

Regardless, it’s sad - albeit increasingly less surprising - to see 7th grade writing and celebrity striver stuff in the NYT. I mean there are sentences in here that never would have made it past the edit desk a decade ago.

You have no experience with the NYT opinion section if you think that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The piece sounded very staged, like a PR piece. My guess she is pregnant again, and that's why she is sharing now - the pain is less acute. I was a bit older than her when I had two losses in a row, both in the first trimester. It's very painful, but quite normal and expected.

This was exactly my thought too — pregnant again, telling this story now before announcing next one as part of narrative strategy.

Regardless, it’s sad - albeit increasingly less surprising - to see 7th grade writing and celebrity striver stuff in the NYT. I mean there are sentences in here that never would have made it past the edit desk a decade ago.

I agree. The NYTimes is no longer above some tabloid level stuff, but they need to make money.

[Anonymous]

The level of virtriol on here for a woman who has has a miscarriage is truly horrific.

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Anonymous wrote:The level of virtriol on here for a woman who has has a miscarriage is truly horrific.

No. What is horrific is her trying to take advantage of something experienced by many people and trying to shamelessly capitalize on it by pushing a selfish agenda to keep her name in the spotlight and make "are you ok" a thing. Have some standards, woman. The writing is utter shit and overwrought to boot.

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Anonymous wrote:I usually like her but her "Are You OK?" sounds almost as vapid and silly as "Be Best."

I get her point, and think her heart is in the right place, but when she centers herself (and she does tend to be quite self-pitying for an extraordinarily privileged person), she undermines the message. And it is a little "young" in the way it's conveyed.

[Anonymous]

I love how they asked for privacy. Ummm what?

[Anonymous]

The problem is I don't get genuine empathy/sympathy toward others in her op-ed, especially when so many are mourning deep losses of various kinds this holiday season. I just get "please give me attention and sympathy."