Meghan Markle Talks About Her Insecurities After Being Told She’s ‘Not Enough’

Meghan Markle is just like any other woman with insecurities, but the soon to be royal managed to rise above them with the help of legendary casting director, April Webster.

A couple of years ago, she penned an article for Darling magazine (via the Daily Mail), and it resurfaced just one week after she announced her engagement to Prince Harry. In the article, Markle revealed that she’s been told that she’s “not enough” so many times in the industry that she used to work for.

“Trying to find value in an industry that judges you on everything that you’re not versus everything that you are,” she wrote. Markle said that some executives have told her that she’s “not thin enough, not pretty enough, not ethnic enough while also being too thin, too ethnic, too pretty the very next day.”

But one audition for a role she did not specify changed her life and boosted her confidence in herself. According to Prince Harry’s fiancée, she auditioned for a role when Webster stopped her mid-sentence and told her that she’s 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,” she wrote.

Markle’s encounter with Webster also served as her wakeup call. The casting director reminded her to always go for “less make-up, more Meghan.” “I can write to the girl I was 10 years ago and for the woman I strive to be in another 10. I want to make her proud. I want to remind her of her worth, just as that casting director did for me many moons ago,” she concluded.

Much has changed in Markle’s life in recent days. She will soon marry Prince Harry at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. She will also become a British citizen and will be headlining various causes in the coming months.