Meghan Markle makes rare confession about Sorority days in college

• Meghan Markle welcomed his hair colorist, Kadi Lee, to his Lemonada -Podcast, Confessions of a female founder
• The friends talked about learning to take care of their natural hair as young women
• The Duchess of Sussex said that her Sorority sisters who were not black thought she “burned” her hair with a flat iron when she styled it in college

Meghan MarkleHair styling routine in college came as a surprise to her Sorority sisters.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, shared the story in conversation with her close friend and hair color Kadi Lee on the latest episode of her podcast Confessions of a female founderreleased on April 22. Kadi founded and run Highbrow Hippie Salon and product range in Los Angeles, and they talked about learning to take care of their natural hair when they were young women.

Kadi talked about his strengthening experience of going to Spelman College in Atlanta, one of America’s two all women historically black colleges and universities and parts that “no one is even surprised” that she is known for “Blonde height points” today, seemingly referring to her extensive celebrity customers.

“Well, especially because you made hair at 11 am when you realized in Connecticut, not many people could make your hair structure, so you started experimenting on your own. I can’t imagine what it was like,” Meghan said.

“It reminds me of when I was at the Northwester, and I moved into Kappa, our Sorority there,” she continued. The Duchess of Sussex was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma while she was enrolled at Northwestern University, where she studied in 1999 to 2003 and graduated with a double major in theater and international studies.

“I don’t even think they made plug-in flat iron at that time,” Meghan said. “They couldn’t! If they did, I didn’t know where they were, because I had the little stove, with the flat iron that would go in, have a paper towel on the page. I mean, probably half of the people listening to this goes,” what is she talking about? “” She said.

“Or you would pull it out, it would have the little burns. And I remember most girls in the Sorority who were not black say:” What is that smell? “Burns your hair?” And that was exactly what you would do to find out how you can fight with this hair structure, “Meghan remembered.

The Duchess of Sussex, who is Biracial, previously talked about fighting to find the right products to take care of her hair when she was a young girl. Meghan unloaded the previous subject with Mariah Carey On a section of her first podcast ArchetypesReleased in September 2022, where the Duchess of Sussex talked about the feeling of being “shellacked” by “so much heavy hair fat” when her hair was in unknown hands.

With an anecdote from her childhood, the Duke of Sussex said that because her hair is “so curly and so, so thick,” her grandmother Jeanette styled her hair.

“She’d go,” just stick to the sink, “and I would grab my little hands on both sides,” she said on ArchetypesVoted that there was no “luxury of being sore” when her grandmother had the brush.

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Meghan welcomed Kadi to the second episode of podcast Confessions of a female founder from Lemonada Media, where they talked about building a brand (Meghan was revealed as ever in our And its first row of food products already has sold out), the narrow statistics on black female-owned companies, how Meghan became a highbrow client when she and she Prince Harry Moved to California in 2020 and of course hair care.

The Duchess of Sussex said that her royal wedding hair stylist Serge Normant was the one who made the connection after a box coloring during the pandemic turned her hair “This very ink, almost Elvira-Esque black hair.”

“And I texted Serge, and he said,” You have to see Kadi, “” recalled Meghan, and the rest is history.