In her latest Archetypes podcast,
titled The Duality of Diva, Meghan sat down with Mariah Carey and
opened up about dealing with textured hair – which was a task left to Doria
Ragland’s mother Jeanette. “When I was growing up my mum didn’t know how
to get the mats out of my hair, I feel like you have a different texture than
mine,” Mariah said to the Duchess.
“Nobody knew how to do my
hair even as a little girl. So my mum is white, my dad is black and I think
sometimes when it’s the other way around you get the benefit of someone who has
dealt with textured hair,” she continued, but Meghan did not agree.
Sharing her own experiences,
she replied: “Hold on a second, no! My hair is so curly and it’s so thick.
I just remember as a child, because my mum’s black, and so my grandma Jeanette
would do my hair. She’d go, ‘Just hold onto the sink,’ and I would grip my
little hands on both sides.
“You have no luxury of
being tender-headed because she would take the brush and just whoosh,
whoosh and tie it.”
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Meghan often styles her hair in bouncy curls
Meghan also revealed she sympathized
with Mariah when it came to hairdressers styling her locks using lots of
products. “They didn’t know how to do my hair. If it was a white
hairdresser that had never dealt with textured hair, they would try to do a different
thing. And my hair would be like, ‘Ahhh, you’re not doing that. And then if
somebody had only dealt with ethnic hair it would become too much
product,” Mariah said.
Immediately relating to her
story, Meghan said: “Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Like shellacked. Yeah, I know so
much… so much heavy hair grease. I know. Like, like Murray’s. Murray’s
pomade.”
This comes after the royal
sported her beautiful curls in new photos taken during a recent Zoom call from
her Montecito home. The mother-of-two – who shares son Archie, three, and
daughter Lilibet with Prince Harry – looked gorgeous with no makeup on, as her
little boy and her mother, Doria Ragland, who lives with the Sussex
family, made surprise appearances.
Meghan’s first Archetypes
podcast episode, released on 23 August, saw her open up about a fire in her son
Archie’s nursery during their royal tour of South Africa in 2019.
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Mariah Carey featured on The Duality of Diva
During the episode,
titled The Misconception of Ambition, the Duchess spoke to Serena Williams
about how their nanny Lauren was “in a flood of tears” following the
terrifying incident, in which the heater in Archie’s room catch fire while
Harry and Meghan were at an official engagement. Luckily, Archie was with
Lauren in another room at the time, but they were understandably
“shaken” when they returned to their little boy.
“Everyone’s in tears,
everyone’s shaken. And what did we have to do? Go out and do another official
engagement. And I said, ‘This doesn’t make any sense, can you just tell people
what happened?” she said.
