Former Bachelor host Chris Harrison has a hot take on Meghan Markle’s social media return.
“Meghan Markle finally had a very small victory,” Harrison, 53, said on the Tuesday, June 17, episode of his and wife Lauren Zima’s “Through the Drama” podcast. “She finally had what seemed like a normal moment [and] it went viral. She was dancing with [Prince] Harry in the hospital room.”
Meghan, 43, uploaded a throwback Instagram video earlier this month, in which she and husband Harry, 40, were seen grooving to the viral “Baby Mama Dance” just moments before she gave birth to her daughter, Princess Lilibet, in 2021. (Harry and Meghan also share a son, Prince Archie, who was born in 2019.)
“It actually made her look just, like, a normal human being,” Harrison quipped. “She can’t take the win of just letting it go. She’s like, ‘Remember when I had that moment?’ It’s just cringe, and she can’t get out of her own way. God bless her.”
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Meghan, for her part, recently defended posting the footage.
“You have to be authentic,” she said on the latest episode of Emma Grede’s “Aspire” podcast, stressing she and Harry filmed the clip four years ago. “It’s also a really great reminder that with all the noise or whatever people do, there’s still a whole life — a real, authentic, fun life — that’s happening behind the scenes.”
She added, “I’m just grateful that now, being back on social as well, I have a place where I can share it on my own terms.”
Meghan shuttered her social media profiles, as well as her The Tig lifestyle blog, before marrying King Charles III’s son Harry in 2018. She relaunched her Instagram earlier this year while growing her various businesses. (Meghan and Harry stepped down from their duties as senior working royals in 2020, relocating to California with their kids.)
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“It feels liberating. I have to look again, what was my intention? I came back, started the account in January of this year,” Meghan added on Grede’s podcast. “There were no gadgets [when I was on social media]. You should see me sitting there trying to figure the magnet on things. I don’t have key lights and I don’t have all this business yet, but I don’t know if you need it.”
Meghan continued, “Part of it is just being able to authentically share in real time the things that are happening that I think someone might be able to laugh with or enjoy or be inspired by.”
According to the As Ever founder, her Instagram is her “space and [her] channel for joy.”
