”I wasn’t black enough”

“My teens were even worse — grappling with how to fit in,” she wrote in a blog post years later. “Being biracial, I fell somewhere in between.”

She also faced challenges early in her acting career, partly because she was seen as “ethnically ambiguous.” As she put it, “I wasn’t black enough for the black roles and I wasn’t white enough for the white ones.”

By her twenties, the pressure to look and act perfect took its toll.

“It was a constant battle with myself… to be as cool/as hip/as smart/as ‘whatever’ as everyone else.”

At 33, though, things shifted.

“I am 33 years old today. And I am happy,” she wrote. “To figure out how to be kind to yourself… to feel [happiness] — it takes time.”

From Suits to St. George’s chapel

That little girl who felt invisible would grow up to become Rachel Zane on Suits, and eventually — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

She met Prince Harry in 2016. Two years later, they married at Windsor Castle. By 2021, they had two children: Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.

But life as a royal mom wasn’t without terrifying challenges.