Meghan Markle Surprises Students at Her High School in the Newest Episode of 'Archetypes'
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Duchess Meghan returned to her former high school in the penultimate episode of her Spotify podcast, Archetypes.
The Duchess of Sussex paid a visit to Immaculate Heart High School, her alma mater located in Los Angeles, in order to get to the root of the stereotypes and labels that have been engrained in her since she was a young girl.
"I wanted to revisit a large piece of my origin story, my old school, and explore these labels and boxes are part part of the self-identification for the young women there, or if they've given themselves the space to be a human being," she said.
Once she arrived at the campus, Meghan observed what has changed and what hasn't since her days as a high schooler. "This is all very nice and new. Isn't it a pretty campus?" she said. "Oh, my gosh. How funny. My locker was right over there."
Meghan took the time to not only explore the grounds, but to also surprise current students at the school.
"Being back there, the energy, it was palpable. I was happy to be back there and it was also really fun, especially when I made a surprise visit and I popped into some of the young ladies in volleyball practice," she recalled. "Or caught up with one of the young women in the hallway, right in front of our lockers."
She later sat down with three recent Immaculate Heart Graduates—Abigail, Diana, and Grace—to talk about the ways certain stigmas may still persist into their generation, or how they may have fully evolved.
During their conversation, the graduates told the duchess that they felt the "B word" was often used in a derogatory way toward women, echoing a sentiment Meghan previously expressed in another episode. But, when she asked the girls what they felt when they hear the word "bimbo," the girls said they didn't often hear that label in a negative way, unless it's "on TikTok from self-proclaimed bimbos."
"She's only ever heard the word on TikTok?" Meghan said, incredulous. "I mean, talk about aging myself, but this idea of the bimbo, the dumb blonde, this was something that I grew up seeing all the time, and here we go, they hadn't."
Later in the episode, Meghan invited Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, poet Amanda Gorman, and actress Michaela Jae Rodgriguez to speak further about embracing one's identity outside the boundaries of self-imposed labels
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