I was told I wasn't pretty or thin enough: Meghan Markle

Future royal bride reveals her battle with insecurities

US starlet Meghan Markle has been making headlines ever since her engagement to the British Royal, Prince Harry. Markle has now decided to leave behind her acting days and recently announced her exit from the TV series Suits too.

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In an open letter, written by Markle to Darling Magazine back in 2015,  the actor talked about how she was told she wasn't either pretty or thin enough to work in the industry.



"I was trying to find my value in an industry that judges you on everything that you’re not versus everything that you are. Not thin enough, not pretty enough, not ethnic enough, while also being too thin, too ethnic, too pretty the very next day," wrote Markle.

Still in her early 20s, she was struggling to come to terms with how she was being viewed and the changes in Hollywood, and its obsession with image.

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But, she revealed her approach to searching for work changed in an instant following her encounter with casting director April Webster, who told her to believe in herself.

Talking about Webster, Markle wrote, "I had never met her before, and at my very first audition for her, she stopped me mid-scene and said so simply, “You need to know that you’re enough.”

"I was breathless. No one had ever seen it, or perhaps no one had ever called me out, but there in that small box of a room in Burbank, this woman I had never met saw me. My gut reaction was to smile. To smile hard. Maybe that would keep the tears tucked behind my draping eyes," added the Suits star.

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"It wouldn’t have mattered if I cried, because she saw me. She saw all that self-doubt beaming through the self-tanner and excessive blush. 'You need to know that you’re enough,'” Markle reminisced what Webster told her. '“Less makeup, more Meghan."'

There was no looking back for Markle then.



"It was six years ago that I booked the role of Rachel on Suits. It was called A Legal Mind at the time; it was the fifth pilot I would have filmed," she said.

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"I remember hoping this one would see the light of day. Never would I have imagined that this show would not just change my career, but also change my life—that on my journey of trying to get what I wanted, of trying to see my dream come to fruition, I would learn who I am," Markle continued.

"That I would discover that I am enough."

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