Meghan Markle Details ‘Scary’ Postpartum Preeclampsia

Meghan Markle reveals her battle with postpartum preeclampsia in her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. The Duchess of Sussex’s Lemonada Media series spotlights women entrepreneurs who have transformed modest concepts into thriving businesses. The first guest, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble’s founder, joins Markle in discussing their shared experience with the serious pregnancy complication, which the former actress describes as “scary.”

Meghan Markle shares her experience with postpartum preeclampsia

Suits star Meghan Markle is candid about sharing a rare condition that she faced after giving birth, known as postpartum preeclampsia. For the uninitiated, postpartum preeclampsia is a condition that occurs when a mother has high blood pressure and excess protein in her urine soon after childbirth. As per Mayo Clinic, “Preeclampsia is a similar condition that develops during pregnancy and typically resolves with the birth of the baby.”

In Markle’s new podcast, the former TV actress tells her close friend and successful entrepreneur, Whitney Wolfe Herd, how both of them faced the same condition. Markle reveals, “It’s so rare and so scary.

And you’re still trying to juggle all of these things, and the world doesn’t know what’s happening quietly. And in the quiet, you’re still trying to show up for people — mostly for your children — but those things are huge medical scares.”

Wolfe Herd chimes in, sharing the huge consequences of the condition. She says, “I mean life or death, truly.” Markle, however, did not specify whether she went through the condition during her first child, Prince Archie’s, birth or Princess Lilibet’s.

Along with struggles of postpartum preeclampsia, Wolfe Herd also talked about Markle’s era of living with the royals. They recalled the time when she had to “debut” her first child to within days of giving birth.

Wolfe Herd shares, “I mean, I’ll never forget the image of you after you delivered Archie, and the whole world was waiting for his debut.” She added, “I was either just becoming or about to become a new mom, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, how is this woman doing this? How is this woman putting on heels and going and debuting a child in this, you know, beautiful outfit in front of the entire world?'”

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