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Meghan Markle is ‘biting the hand that fed her’ by ‘playing dumb blonde roles and then slamming them’, expert says
MEGHAN Markle has today been blasted for "biting the hand that fed her" after she slammed Hollywood "bimbo" roles.
Royal author Angela Levin hit out at the Duchess of Sussex for criticising "dumb blonde" roles after the ex-actress made a career off playing similar parts.
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In Meghan's latest Archetypes episode - titled Breaking Down 'The Bimbo' with Paris Hilton' - the Duchess said women have "made careers from and played into dumb blonde archetypes" for "decades".
Three clips from films then play, including a soundbite from teen flick Legally Blonde, which famously challenges stereotypes aimed at young blonde women.
A clip from beloved teen comedy Mean Girls is then heard - a film best known for tackling bullying and body image among young women.
Meghan describes how she herself felt "objectified" on stage while performing as a briefcase girl on the US version of Deal or No Deal in 2006.
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She said the role - which focused on her looks not her brains - left her feeling "objectified" and "not smart".
Royal expert Angela claims Meghan is "patronising" young actresses who take such roles by choice.
She told The Sun: "Meghan did it for so long. She thinks 'it's a terrible thing what they got women to do, she was valued for her beauty not her brains' she said.
"She grabbed the jobs because she didn't have any other ones.
"Meghan didn't have to do it, nobody made her.
"If she's got the brains, why didn't she think: 'this is about beauty and I'm not doing it'.
"She did it. She did it with lots of different companies over a while because it was her way of earning money.
"Meghan doesn't want to admit that because she thinks she's too grand for it."
Angela claimed Meghan is playing "miss victim" by blasting parts she was given - including the Deal or No Deal job.
In the podcast, the Duchess told how she was grateful for the income working on the hit game show gave her.
But she stressed she left the show after feeling "objectified" by a crewmember who told her to "suck it in" when on camera.
"She was very patronising. She didn't have to take the job," Angela said.
"She's looking down on it. She thinks 'it's a lower grade than me'.
"I think she's got a cheek to trash other people who need to do it to earn some money or who want to do it.
"She just pushes herself way above them and looks down her nose."
In the podcast, Meghan goes on to reveal that she hopes her and Harry's daughter Lilibet will "aspire slightly higher" than a "bimbo".
She tells Paris: "I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on this idea because when I hear the word bimbo, I have a very negative connotation to it.
"I don't see that as an aspirational thing for a woman, I want our daughters to aspire to be slightly higher.
"I want my Lili to want to be educated and want to be smart and to pride herself on those things."
In her last podcast, Meghan slammed Hollywood blockbusters for “toxic stereotyping” of Asian women.
She took swipes at Austin Powers — famously a James Bond spoof — and Kill Bill, whose Lucy Liu assassin has been lauded as a powerful female role model.
In her first podcast since the Queen’s death, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, claimed the films promoted the “incredibly dangerous” image of a stereotypical “Dragon Lady” to movie fans.
She said: “Movies like Austin Powers and Kill Bill presented these characters of Asian women as oftentimes over-sexualized or aggressive. And it’s not just those two examples, there’s so many more.”
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Meghan added: “The Dragon Lady, the East Asian temptress whose mysterious foreign allure is scripted as both tantalising and deadly. This has seeped into a lot of our entertainment.
“But this toxic stereotyping of women of Asian descent, it doesn’t just end once the credits roll.”
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