The Duchess of Sussex criticizes people who told her she was “so lucky” that the Duke of Sussex “chose her.”
While chatting withstar about how women are sometimes convinced that a man choosing them shows their worth, the 41-year-old royal shared how she and her husband pushed back that notion.
“But thankfully, I have a partner who was countering that narrative for me and going, ‘They’ve got it all wrong. I'm the lucky one because you chose me.’ But it is gendered and it’s archetyped and it’s stereotyped that ‘you’re so lucky,’ and it just feeds into this idea that you’re waiting for someone to tell you that you’re good enough as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own,” she adds.
While the duchess appears to have always been the prettiest girl in the group, she revealed that it wasn’t until she was older that she grew out of being “the smart one.” “I was always a little bit of a loner and really shy and didn’t know where to fit in. So, I was like, ‘Well, OK, I'll just become the president of multi-culture club, and the president of sophomore class and the president of this and French club.
“I came in here, we don’t know each other, we have some people in common,” Mindy shares. “You do seem so intimidating, your life is together, you’re so beautiful. Even in the Oprah thing I was like, ‘Oh my god, she has chickens. Who has their sh*t together enough to raise chickens and kids? Come on.'”
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