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Meghan Markle has helped redefine A-list beauty
Growing up biracial, Meghan Markle struggled to find beauty figures with whom she could identify. The sense of uncertainty became more pronounced when she entered acting. “There couldn’t possibly be a more label-driven industry than acting … I wasn’t black enough for the black roles and I wasn’t white enough for the white ones, leaving me somewhere in the middle as the ethnic chameleon who couldn’t book a job,” she wrote for Elle in 2016. The result? Markle carved out a new path, becoming the role model she lacked as a child. As Rachel Zane, the primary love interest on the television show “Suits,” Markle got to redefine the image of the “dream girl.” “In making a choice like that, the ‘Suits’ producers helped shift the way pop culture defines beauty,” she explained.
She redefined the dream girl again, in real life, when she married a prince of England. Sure, there might be some weird things about Markle and Prince Harry’s marriage that we can’t ignore. But, in some ways, that makes living well a political act for Markle. She’s living proof that beautiful, happy lives are possible for anyone — regardless of skin color.
