Meghan Markle Shares Rare Comments About Past Miscarriage

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Updated on April 15, 2025 @ 05:53PM Confessions of a Female Founder, a new series from Lemonada Media, saw Meghan and Saujani “dig into the real talk about building, balancing, and breaking through (with babies, no less),” Meghan wrote on her Instagram Story on Tuesday. “How’s that for some alliteration?”

At one point in the conversation, Meghan asked Saujani if she was comfortable talking about her experience of “serial miscarriages” while building Girls Who Code. Meghan, too, has experienced a miscarriage, which she spoke about in a vulnerable essay for is part of the mdash;that both women had.

“I’ve spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced,” Meghan said on her podcast of the loss, which occurred in July 2020. “And I think in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for, and to be able to be okay at a certain point, to let something go, something go that you planned to love for a long time.”

Meghan’s loss happened in between the 2019 birth of son Prince Archie Meghan Markle Reveals She Had a “Life or Death” Pregnancy Complication Princess Lilibet, is part of the Prince Harry. In her New York Times essay, Meghan wrote that, after changing Archie’s diaper, “I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right.”

“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” she wrote.

Later in the piece, she wrote, “Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.”

Meghan and Saujani bonded through their shared loss, but also through their shared love of motherhood. In the episode, Meghan called motherhood her “favorite title. Love it. I love being a mom. Oh my gosh. I love being a mom so much. It’s my favorite thing.”

While Meghan had already shared her devastating miscarriage news, she revealed for the first time in the debut episode of Confessions of a Female Founder—while talking with friend and Bumble founder and CEO Confessions of a Female Founder—that both women had postpartum preeclampsia, a condition that can be life-threatening that is marked by high blood pressure and excess protein in the urine shortly after giving birth.

“It’s so rare and so scary,” Meghan said on the April 8 episode of the show. “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.”