Duchess Meghan made a surprise virtual appearance at Misan Harriman’s Ted Talk

It was so funny to see the “news” about the Duchess of Sussex on Monday morning. I saw that Meghan made a virtual appearance at Misan Harriman’s Ted Talk, and I thought “wow, that’s nice” and I moved on to other things. Little did I know that Meghan’s appearance – which, AGAIN, was virtual – would be a four-alarm fire for the entire British media. According to them, Meghan “broke cover” and “reemerged” after “snubbing the coronation invitation.” How dare Meghan…not leave her house to record a message for Misan less than two weeks before the coronation!! HOW DARE SHE!

The Telegraph claims this is “the first time the Duchess, 41, has made a public appearance this year, other than the release of official photos last month from her trip to Harvest Home.” Not true – not only did she do the official photos for Harvest Home, but she was pap’d in LA, going to lunch with her staff and Harvest Home staff. She and Harry were also seen out at a private club in January. Anyway, Meghan made a little speech for Misan:

‌In the short introductory speech, the Duchess said: “I’ve experienced his talent firsthand as he has captured many meaningful milestones for me and my family, and I know there are many others who share in this experience.”

She added: “His lens has photographed everything from events that have changed the world, invisible moments we all desperately needed to see, along with some of the planet’s most recognisable faces. But this was not always this path and you might be surprised to hear not who, but what, he credits for his success. I am so thrilled to welcome to the Ted stage my dear friend Misan Harriman.”

[From The Telegraph]

Perfectly nice. A lovely thing to do for a friend. Misan has photographed the Sussexes and their kids several times – he took Lilibet’s first-birthday photos, he was in Manchester for Meghan’s One World speech last September, and he photographed Meghan and Harry’s pregnancy announcement when she was preg with Lili.

Of course, there’s also a lot of talk about Meghan’s “dramatic new look.” To me, it looks like she just got some auburn balayage and then she flat-ironed her hair. It also looks like she’s lost a little weight (you can see in her face when she loses or gains weight) and other than that… she’s just glowing. She looks happy and rested and healthy. (I can’t wait to see Kate suddenly appear with red highlights, a center part and flat-ironed hair.)

Screencaps from Ted Talk.

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  1. Kokiri says:

    I would not have thought that was Meghan.
    Yikes. Sorry, not at all a fan of the new hair colour (natural from the sun or not), nor the flat iron look.

    She kinda looks like KimK & not in a good way. I’m finding that middle picture somewhat alarming.

    • Christine says:

      She looks beautiful but her eyebrows are higher. Does weight loss make your eyebrows raise up? Could she have gotten botox or something? I agree she doesn’t look like herself. Even accounting for the different hair, which I do like. Maybe just a weird still screenshot.

      • Chloe says:

        Guys this is literally good lighting, make up and weight loss. You could at her OYW appearance last September that she had lost the last bit of her pregnancy weight. Her face is literally the same as when she started dating harry. The only difference is the hair colour and length.

        Botox and fillers don’t make you look like this.

      • Tessa says:

        She looks great.

      • Sissi says:

        I think quite a lot is also the filter from the camera.
        I also think she has some botox. I don’t think there’s anyone her age whos famous and doesn’t have it. Although she really doesn’t need it, she has good genes.
        Unlike kate, who has tons of botox and co all over her face!

        Also: I like this look, but I like the natural look (like yesterday) a bit more 🙂

      • Becks1 says:

        @Chloe I agree, I think the lighting plays a big role here, especially in the one screencap. The second picture in this post looks really different from the other two and I don’t know if thats just the lighting or a filter.

        but when you compare this to how she looked in September its about the same. A lot of the docuseries footage was filmed when she was pregnant or relatively newly postpartum so it makes sense that she would look different from that.

      • Sugarhere says:

        If Botox it is, it was done in very good taste. I don’t mind it as long as it’s done with moderation, after 38 years of age, not injected into the armpits, and after all the necessary precautions were taken to make sure it’s not health-threatening.

        The Duchess of Sussex looks like a dream here.

      • bros says:

        she’s gotten filler in her cheekbones and lip filler too. it’s good work.

      • Bex says:

        A half-Black woman getting fillers on her lips? Are you serious right now?

      • PrincessOfWaffles says:

        Botox is norm in Cali, and she wont make exception. She does look great and a hair change is always a good hint that something happened on a celebrity’s face. I also think she put on a light brown color eye contact lense so her face looks monochromatic more than usual.

      • Ash says:

        There’s literally a filter on the video… and contacts? Her eyes are very brown in bright lights. You’re doing too much

    • Cat says:

      I’m not usually a fan of the super-straight hair trend (my old stylist would do it to me every time he cut/colored my hair and I would go home and try to fluff it up lol) but most women/femmes do like to experiment with hair once in a while. The highlights look nice.

    • Ellie says:

      Love her but that was my first thought too – that she is starting to look Kardashian-esque.

      In these photos she is giving early stages of ”Instagram face”. Of course still beautiful but she doesn’t look like herself, she looks like everyone else on the internet.

      Of course everyone can do what they want but I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed. Et tu Brute 😔

      • MrsBanjo says:

        It’s her hair and makeup. That’s all. She looks the same as always if you just take a look at the Lakers game photos.

      • Ang says:

        I bet it was just professional lighting and maybe a zoom filter. And of course she and every person who is regularly in the public eye gets Botox. But this looks more like an eye lift. But at the game she looks like herself. So i think just lighting.

      • Ameerah M says:

        It’s literally just good lighting and the filter from the camera used. My God you people need to calm down.

      • aftershocks says:

        ^^ Exactly @Ameerah M. It’s the lighting, makeup, and camera filters. Meg with straight hair middle parted, with highlights, is nothing new. In her pre-Harry days, Meghan wore multiple straight hair with middle part looks. She’s also highlighted her hair for years. In her twenties, she lightened her hair all over for a time. I think she looks best with her dark locks and the usual reddish highlights.

        Meg has always styled her hair in a variety of ways. In the Lili pregnancy announcement photo, Meg’s hair was corn-rowed at the scalp, likely because she’d stopped using chemical straighteners for awhile. As far as Botox, maybe a slight bit of use on the forehead. But Meg don’t need cheek fillers, nor certainly NOT lip fillers. LOL, Meg comes naturally by her gorgeous cheekbones and her full, scrumptious-looking lips! 💋

    • Pumpkin says:

      If you see the pictures of her at the Lakers game she looks… exactly the same as she usual does.

      I think it’s a combination of makeup, lighting, hair style and filters from the camera. Too many changes from how we normally see her makes some think she’s had to have done something dramatic to her face. I don’t think that’s the case – people underestimate just how crucial lighting is lol.

      • equality says:

        I agree. I think the only change here was straightening her hair and maybe hair products made it give a different color look under the lights also.

      • Jais says:

        Yeah, pair this with the lakers game pics. She looks as ever like Meghan. Even with the lighting and zoom filter, she looks like
        Meghan. I would not look at this pic and not recognize her. Please.

      • Suze says:

        Lighting and which lens you’re using. The depth of field can change your face DRAMATICALLY.

      • ThatsNotOkay says:

        Lighting and camera used for Zoom. I’m not a fan of the hair color, but you can see she’s growing it out, lol. She’s got black and grey hair at the base of the part. Anyway, she looks fantastic at the Lakers game, so I’m chalking this up to a mediocre screengrab!

    • Megan says:

      People keep saying “this is good lighting” and I just don’t see it. I think the photo that is a still photo is pretty good, but the one where she looks like she is talking, the lighting is really bad.

      Overall, these are not my favorite photos of her. But she’s a human and is allowed to take a bad photo every once in a while.

      I also don’t think she’s had work done, except maybe some Botox, but who hasn’t?

      Not my favorite photos, but also….. not really a big deal?

      • aftershocks says:

        Yeah, I don’t think it’s good lighting, it’s just that the camera filters and being filmed in the venue on a huge zoom screen does something to the lighting. We’re seeing a camera image of a zoom screen image, which casts odd shadows. I heard some people saying she no longer has her freckles. That’s silly. We just can’t see her freckles clearly due to the make-up and lighting shadows created by double cameras/ filters.

    • Lizzie says:

      I love these pics. Hair and makeup are flawless. Her face is the same, possibly a bit thinner or simply because her hair is style so the front edges frame her eyes and you don’t see her whole face. It’s a beautiful look. I don’t know if her hair color is just lighting or not but it’s very becoming on her.

      • Isa says:

        I think it’s a filter and I think she gets a bit of Botox and filler, and I think she does a good job of keeping it natural, as evidenced by the other events she has been seen at.

      • aftershocks says:

        You’re exactly right @Lizzie. The straight hair framing Meg’s face elongates and casts shadows, so we don’t get a full view of her face. The intro for Misan was obviously filmed sometime ago. Meg is back to her usual long wavy locks styling at the Lakers game outing.

    • Emmi says:

      This is why people swarmed plastic surgeons’ offices after the pandemic, because a camera – especially a non-professional one – can actually make you look a lot different. I switch on the blurry thing on Teams and look like a younger version of myself. It’s why I don’t do that. I look the way I look and if someone notices bags under my eyes, maybe leave me alone with the meetings. LOL

      The hair and makeup are very different from what we’re used to these past few years. Especially the eye makeup. And the hair hides a lot of her bone structure.

      People really need to learn that the meeting cameras and lighting can make a huge difference.

      • Ameerah M says:

        Exactly this. I do beauty content and work with lighting and it can completely change the way my face looks on a given day. Anyone who has taken a selfie should know this. Lighting can literally work magic. I also think the camera used has a filter on it. Which is another trick used that people don’t often consider.

      • tolly says:

        It’s definitely the light setup washing her out. Even her eyes look too pale.

    • rezana says:

      yikes. yea…not a fan of this look. i do think she also has a filter on and the lighting is OFF. It almost looks like as she is moving the filter is changing. I think for me this styling is jarring bc I’m used to the minimalist clean and natural looks she’s had in the past. re: other zoom. this look…makes her look so plastic and fake. and the straight ironed locks scream hollywood influencer. as with other posters…kardashian-esque. a LOT of editing was done on the video and it shows.

    • notasugarhere says:

      So many new names on here upset about how gorgeous Meghan looks. Hmmm.

      • Nerd says:

        Yes, I would agree. It’s very interesting the influx of new commenters and assumptions about anything to do with Meghan. She looks gorgeous, as she always does. We saw actual video and photos of her from last night where there was no difference in how she looks. Yet somehow a video where she is wearing a different makeup palette than she normally does and lighting that even changed the hue of her hair color is supposed to be a sign of her getting any type of procedure done. They throw in the Kim comparisons and the “everyone” does it spill and that’s supposed to make it a credible assumption. The woman is gorgeous and I for one appreciated the video and sentiment behind it.

    • Lorelei says:

      If I’d seen these pics with zero context I would have totally thought they were just never-before-seen shots from 2013 or 2014! She looks beautiful.

    • Grant says:

      I disagree, I think she definitely gets Botox or Dysport. It’s not shameful, a lot of people get some form of neurotoxin.

      • Bex says:

        A half-Black woman getting Botox and Dysport?? For what?? Have you seen how her other looks at 60??? Please be serious.

    • SpankyB says:

      My only complaint is that her hair was hiding her face, and that made her look Kardashian-like. But that’s looking at the still photos, she looks her normal gorgeous self in movement.

    • Lemons says:

      The “done” photo looks like some heavy-handed photo editing or a makeup filter. It’s clearly not the same look as we see in the video intro. Somebody did too much.

      I do love this hair though. I can understand wanting a new look, so good for her.

    • HamsterJam says:

      HA! She takes a shower after yoga and then brings out her flat iron while she is figuring out the most effective way to target the money and skills she has to help others.

      So if all you got is flat iron hair, you need to back out of the room

      Because she has done more real support for people before she flat ironed her hair this morning than you have done in your lifetime

    • Alice says:

      I agree, don’t like the very flat, very harsh cut of the hair around her face. The make up is Lovely as always but the hair is too flat, too far over her sides.

    • Caribbean says:

      All the comments about botox and surgery etc is why many celebs don’t change their look. And then people say they never change their look. Omg, the point of Changing your look, even for a day, is to look different!

      • Christine says:

        Yeah, agreed. This entire thread is gross.

      • aftershocks says:

        Flat-ironed straight hairstyles is not new for Meg. Take a deep dive into googling her pre-royal L.A. and Toronto Meghan sparkle looks! Too much overwrought examination of gorgeous Meg! Methinks loads of haters and diehard fans, not to mention, Salty Isle rota ratchets, have been literally starving to see Meg. And when suddenly getting a brief glimpse, it’s like gulping down water too fast after what seems like an eon of dehydration, stumbling around in the desert. 🤣😂😜

    • Elizabeth Phillips says:

      Agreed. The hair is too light and flat.

  2. BasicBitch says:

    She looks beautiful!!

    • Seaflower says:

      Totally.

    • Jais says:

      She looks so gorgeous. It’s driving haters up the wall.

    • Whyforthelove says:

      She absolutely looks lovely. And it is driving the RR insanely crazy. They even said she was trying to loook like Kate ! Ummm no if she was doing that there would be 15 wigletts.

      • Nadia says:

        I had to laugh I saw the headline of one article saying she got a face lift to look like Kate. Now that is funny. I see nothing that resembles Kate in the least in these pictures.

      • aftershocks says:

        Oh Pshaw! Khate is the furthest thing from Meg’s mind. OTOH, Khate and hoards of derangers have Meg living rent-free in their heads. They are so obsessed with everything Meghan does or doesn’t do, it isn’t funny.

        Meg don’t need face lifts. She takes good care of herself and she’s blessed with great genes, plus beauty inside and out. Meg is no-nonsense. She gets on with the business of living her life, nurturing her family, and giving back to others. She thinks positive thoughts. Those who endlessly copy Meg, should try copying that! 💯

    • Well Wisher says:

      Indeed. She’s simply beautiful.
      This. and excellent make-up & lightening.

  3. SAS says:

    Looks like someone has maybe digitally smoothed the video screen cap for publication?

    I’m sure it would look perfectly normal (albeit with professional lighting) if we saw the actual video.

    • mia girl says:

      I actually think aside from her hair, the noticeable change in Meghan’s appearance in the video is different eye makeup, and it slightly changes the shape and look of her eyes. She typically wears heavier dark shadow or eyeliner all around the eyes. I like this lighter touch… very natural, living my best life look!

      But yes, I agree with you that there is has got to be some digital smoothing going on, not some dramatic, surgery induced “new look” 🙄. I mean Meghan looked like regular Meghan in the videos and photos at the Lakers/Grizzlies game.

      • The Old Chick says:

        Mia Girl, exactly, that’s what I thought.. With the tan, the lighting, the hair and slightly different eye makeup. I really like this eye makeup too, less dark shadow and different eye liner which changed the look of her eyes. Also slightly heavier brows.

      • Jaded says:

        That’s exactly what I think too. Her eye makeup is very subtle and actually elongates her eyes to a more “cat-like” shape. Looks like she has just a few little falsies at the outside corners of her eyes. Great look, but she’s so gorgeous she looks spectacular without any makeup at all.

  4. Persephone says:

    Aww…she looks gorgeous!!! So beautiful. 😍😍

  5. Tessa says:

    She looks gorgeous.

  6. Von Barron says:

    JFC she looks incredible! She has always taken her time with her post baby weight loss, which is healthy. She is absolutely GLOWING. Sunkissed, unbothered. The hair, the freckles. I don’t think she’s ever been more beautiful.

    The power of a peaceful existence is undefeated.

    Just. Wow.

    • Ciotog says:

      There are some derangers who insist that Meghan used a surrogate for her pregnancies (a la Hilaria Baldwin), but she always gains weight in her face when she’s pregnant. Makes no sense to me (except insofar as it is racism at work).

    • aftershocks says:

      @Von Barron: “The power of a peaceful existence is undefeated.”

      ^^ So true! 🎯 💯 Meg has spoken in her pre-Harry days about her self-care rituals. Those who aspire, along with those who are jealous, should take time to research and to learn from Meg’s beauty care routines that were previously written about. They include accessible things like clean-eating, yoga practice, meditation, sauna sessions, and above all, devoted skin care. Being in love, is clearly the cherry on top!

      In the lead-up to M&H’s wedding, one of the articles about Meg discussed the facial massages she receives, along with buccal (inner mouth) massages. The below article mentions Nichola Joss, but other articles cite Meg’s facialist as Sarah Chapman. In any case, the info in the linked article is very enlightening. Meg does the self-maintenance naturally! Just as she allowed her body to shed pounds naturally, in its own time, after her pregnancies. ✨

      https://www.realsimple.com/beauty-fashion/skincare/meghan-markle-buccal-massage

  7. Brit says:

    Meghan shut down that stupid letter narrative in its tracks and she looks beautiful and happy. I know the Media were excited to see her again but are reminded that the days of making money off her in the capacity of England is done. That’s why they’re pissed. Those photographers and reporters are stuck with dull and the dullettes. Oh well, that’s what happens when you overplay your hands.

    • aftershocks says:

      ^^ Exactly! They didn’t respect Meghan. Nor did they do any diligent checking into finding out who she really is. They were more interested in searching for faux pas or something negative about her past. They came up with zip, so they tried to create negativity where none existed. Thus, they missed out on getting to know and to truly understand and appreciate the real Meghan. 🍀 ✨

      Ha ha! Too late now, chumps! Tee hee 😂 😆 🤭

  8. Tessa says:

    Fabulous.

  9. girl_ninja says:

    This was a lovely thing to do for a friend and Misan Harrimans is such a talented photographer. Folks talking about how she must have had Botox are so simple. That is the snatch skin of a happy woman with that melanin popping.

    • Dee(2) says:

      Yeah she looks like someone with a tan. She always looks darker in the summer, people were saying the same thing during Polo season last year in the beginning. I think they were so used to her being in the house in England they forget that her skin tone will fluctuate with the weather pretty noticeably. Also she looks like she’s happy and put on a good moisturizer not sure what to think about people who think that’s a sign of plastic surgery.

  10. She looks great. She kinda has a look about her that says okay Can’t let’s see you do this lol. Unfortunately I saw this picture yesterday with a side by side of Can’t saying how white she looks. They just don’t stop.

  11. C-Shell says:

    She looks breathtaking! I love how she styled herself for this — simple, but dramatic. Her face does look different, and I’d buy she’s lost weight, but her makeup skills are also transformative from time to time, plus the long, straight hair emphasizes the angles of her features. Anyway, the 🤡🤡🤡 can carry on claiming she’s had work done based on photoshopped examples of these pics. And, if she did, who cares? My favorite tweet yesterday was posted by the Squad’s favorite Karen (Armes), whom many believe to be a parody account, who claims that Meghan is actively and strategically working to destroy the Chubbly, and here it’s only April! Meghan is truly powerful. And I think she, and Harry, have already destroyed the Chubbly.

    • Tessa says:

      Charles destroyed his own con a nation systematically. One blunder after another

      • C-Shell says:

        And without an iota of self-awareness or sense of irony. It’s incredible.

      • Bee says:

        Charles can’t even sign a document without losing his cool on global tv.

        I am so not watching any of it. (But I will definitely be reading about it here afterwards!)

  12. Pumpkin says:

    I don’t care much for the hair colour because I don’t like it on anyone but the glow from both the outside and inside is shining through.

  13. Nixie says:

    Lord, the salted nuts of Shutter Island are rage sharting all over twitter and Quora about her new look. Lol. She looks lush and expensive. Die mad, peasants.

  14. ML says:

    She glows! Meghan does look different here, but I believe that it’s mainly due to the makeup, especially around her eyes. If you look at the video and stills from last night’s Lakers game with Harry (which is the most recent photo record of how Meghan looks), she looks more or less like her usual self. Nothing to get frazzled about if she changes things up every once in a while.

    • Seaflower says:

      Her eyebrows are thicker than she normally has them. I think that makes her look different.

  15. Amy Bee says:

    Meghan looks beautiful and it was nice of her to help out her friend.

  16. Ceej says:

    She’s got a cali glow up and I am jealous. If sun, chicken coops, and blocking the DM website can help someone look so at peace, I am leaving London and headed South lol

    But if anyone deserves to feel at peace and rested after the years of viciousness from the U.K., it is this family. She looks like she’s getting younger while her U.K. counterpart is aging… 🤷🏾‍♀️ (also thing the hair shadows are making her jawline look more narrow and different in the airbrushed still but she mostly just looks tanned in the other photo)

  17. Becks1 says:

    I think she looks great. It does look like there is some added red to her hair but people who are saying she has had work done are being ridiculous. She looks a lot like she looked in the video she filmed for her high school (in the blue top/dress).

    • Nic919 says:

      The Lakers footage from last night shows she looks the same as she always has. The lighting and makeup and making the difference here.

      And we have photos from New York back in December where she doesn’t look different.

    • aftershocks says:

      Yes @Becks1, this straight-hair look by Meg resembles her Zoom in 2020, where she wore a turquoise blue shift top. But she was promoting an upcoming ‘Girls’ conference. I forget the exact name of the group. It was a couple months later, after George Floyd’s death, that Meg did a Zoom talk for her former high school’s graduating class. She wore a white top or sweater in that Zoom, and her hair was down, but pulled back, I think.

  18. Miranda says:

    I like the new hair color, but the style might be more flattering with slightly more volume? She still looks gorgeous, of course. The makeup is great. I don’t see Botox, just the face of a woman with a good skincare routine who indulges in an occasional firming facial.

  19. Hannah says:

    I do think that someone else may have touched up that top pic. Meghan’s smiles always reach her eyes. So maybe this was a screenshot and then edited for publication afterward. Also BFD *if* she’s having Botox. Who isn’t

    • Slush says:

      Or she got a little filler in her cheeks. That’s what it looks like to me. But also, as you say, BFD. Botox, filler, nothing at, whatever. She looks great and should do what makes her happy.

  20. TheWigletOfWails says:

    For the past couple of years, Meghan has been pregnant, hence the fuller face. She’s just lost all the baby weight. This look is not new..Meghan has had her hair cut, colored and styled this way when she was on Suits. She’s just tan with a “no-makeup” makeup look. She looks fiyah btw!

  21. tamsin says:

    At first glance I thought it didn’t look like Meghan at all. She usually has a very soft look, and here she looks so angular and her face looks longer. However she does seem to glow, I love how her hair is styled. However, the whole shot looks tonally pinky beigy and very soft. I would like to see the actual video of her speaking to see Meghan as we’re used to seeing her.

  22. Over it says:

    I think she looks stunning. I love her with straight hair

  23. og bella says:

    dislike the hair very much. Not the color, but just the straightened hair and center part. I don’t like it on anyone.

    That said, I would how long it will be before KKKate straightens her hair

  24. Barbara says:

    Early this morning I was looking at Twitter and saw a hilarious Deranger commenting that she was ruining the Coronation because she appeared…in April. 😂

  25. Mabs A'Mabbin says:

    Way to go Megs! You look beautiful. You sound beautiful. And what a beautiful thing to do. You rock and roll.

  26. aimee says:

    glad she’s introducing her friend and on a tedtalk stage too! i’m not sure i like the styling and the edited/filtered and lighting in this video. it’s heavy and makes her look plastic-y. which is sad that one of the most beautiful woman in the world relies on it and shows our warped ideals of beauty. i loved her more in other zoom call appearances from her house with visible lines/pores rather than the overly smoothed/kardashian-esque look here.

  27. AnneL says:

    I just think that the slightly lighter, flat ironed hair, combined with the makeup and lighting, make her look different. I personally prefer her natural darker hair and more subtle makeup, but she still looks really good. And it’s possible that her hair just gets lighter with the sun which happens with so many people. Though it’s never been this color before, so I suspect it’s a dye job of some kind.

    • Debbie says:

      Totally agree with that assessment and I too prefer her with the darker hair which goes better with her undertone. Anyway, I’m not going to freak out about a photo when she looked more like herself at the Lakers game.

  28. Original penguin says:

    Have to say- I don’t think the lighting enhances at all. She looks fine here but not her normal self. In the lakers pics though she looks stunning. I think the softer hair frames her face so much better than the flat iron look

    • aftershocks says:

      It’s not even about the lighting being good. It’s just reflecting in a way that casts shadows. I’m not sure what the difficulty is in simply recognizing that this is not a direct image. We’re viewing Meghan via the camera in the venue, plus the Zoom screen and camera where she is speaking from. She’s wearing her makeup differently and her hair is very straight. Yet, we’ve seen Meg wear her hair in this flat-ironed look on many occasions, especially pre-royal. As well as in an early 2020 Zoom session, where she was newly pregnant with the baby she would lose a few months later.

  29. WiththeAmericann says:

    The claims that she looks bad are so ridiculous I’m going to go with jealousy.

    She looks amazing. Great lighting, great natural looking but not makeup, glowing skin and healthy hair that will not be seen on a certain other person. Everyone in the public eye has tweaks and still, she looks nothing like a kardashian or Instagram face. she just isn’t fake looking. This is the same woman who shows her real body post pregnancy without shame.

    She’s always known that beauty comes from being authentic so she hasn’t ever gotten work that makes her look like someone else. she’s no fool when it comes to beauty and fashion.

    • Iolanthe says:

      She looks different and why not. Doesn’t she have the freedom to play around with hair colour and style herself differently, like any other woman . One more style for Copy Kate though .

    • aftershocks says:

      Exactly @WithTheAmerican and @Iolanthe.

      Meg looks fine and as stunning as usual. She has a distinct glow about her. We haven’t seen a lot of her publicly since last September truthfully (Meg’s visit to the baby charity and lunch afterwards in early March; the late February restaurant date night in West Hollywood; H&M’s recorded birthday message for Elton John last November; H&M were honored at the RFK humanitarian awards event in December; there was an indistinct H&M sighting in the Ellen surprise birthday party video in early February or late January; this recent Zoom introduction for Misan Harriman’s Ted Talk; and the Lakers game sighting). We don’t know when Meg filmed the intro for Misan. I would guess it took place weeks ago.

      In the Jumbotron shot at the Lakers game, Meg was back to her usual long wavy locks, and she was still glowing. ✨ 💖

  30. emma says:

    meghan is one beautiful woman. but to everyone insisting this is her natural face is delusional. in these filtered/shopped stills, there are zero freckles and she has no pores or any lines. i’ve always admired her ability to use subtle makeup and show imperfections…this is not that look. she’s got great skin, and this video makes her look like an influencer talking on instagram with mad filters.

    • tamsin says:

      How ironic, then, that they make Meghan look like this when she is introducing a friend and photographer who captures her natural beauty. I’ve read from numerous sources that she is absolutely stunning in person. This is the first time I’ve seen a picture of Meghan where she looks “plastic.”

  31. theotherViv says:

    I really need someone to come to my house and do the lighting for my facetime calls

  32. Nancy says:

    I get so uncomfortable when we start dissecting Botox, fillers and someone’s weight. I realize this is a gossip website and so the rules are limited. Just saying it’s such a fine line. I hope Meghan is happy and healthy and staying strong despite the unbelievable amount of scrutiny and criticism. Enduring all of this would crush me. For those of us that are supporters, I feel we should tread lightly.

  33. Saschafrom76 says:

    Et tu brute? Some peoples jealousy is showing. So if someone looks like they were born, they look like the face-stealing kartrashisns?. Let’s remember they don’t look like themselves they’re trying to lol mixed like Meghan IS. This comment section is not passing the vibe checks here Karens.

  34. Elsa says:

    I think she looks beautiful, but I didn’t recognize her at first.

  35. ChillinginDC says:

    Honestly it’s just not great lightning and makeup. Whoever did it, used way too heavy a hand on her.

    And good grief, that woman has had her styled like this before. The red highlights/lowlights are new, but she may have decided to do something different for the summer. Who knows. I actually like her hair darker, but that’s just me.

    She does not look like Kim Kardashian. And based on her Laker game photos, she hasn’t had Botox at all. This just wasn’t a great shoot for her. I said similar about that one cover she did with the necklace that had her looking a bit “Cultish”. I hated that.

    She’s still gorgeous though!

  36. BeanieBean says:

    Meghan did a lovely thing for a good friend. She looks beautiful. She likes to switch up her style & have fun with hair & makeup! More disturbing is that the rota rats are tracking her ‘public appearances’ as though 1) they have a right to, 2) she were still a member of the ‘working’ BRF, 3) they didn’t already have in-residence royals to track.

  37. Roan Inish says:

    Meghan is giving off Jlo glow with minimal eye makeup and glowing dewy skin. She looks great!. It looks like there is a faint bit of grey at her part which may be why she is going with a lighter color hair.

  38. Beverley says:

    Always looking so dewy and moisturized. #lifegoals

  39. Nev says:

    Go on Duchess!

  40. Indra says:

    She’s got a new nose you guys. a beautiful one, it really suits her, but it is quite obvious.

  41. candy says:

    Nose, lips, cheeks, eye lift, chin/jaw sculpting. Hope she doesn’t take it further as I really liked her sweet, natural face.

    • Haylie says:

      The way bitter Karen’s flicked to this thread to claim Meghan is becoming a Kardashian.

      Just say you’re insecure and keep it moving, m’am.

    • ChillinginDC says:

      My God. Some of you are a mess.

  42. Lorna says:

    She’s lost the baby weight and dyed her hair. I think she looks great. I don’t see plastic or Kardashian and I wish this was me on a bad day. She’s the rare person who looks good with a thin face or fuller face. I lost a bit of weight once that I didn’t need to lose following a stupid, trendy restrictive diet and my face looked so awful I never did it again. I think she looks beautiful

    • ChillinginDC says:

      I laughed because no one is realizing this is how she looked back in the day on Suits. It took her a while to lose the baby weight (and I am glad she did it in a healthy way) but people claiming she had plastic surgery, Botox, eye surgery, nose surgery, etc. what the what???