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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Meghan Markle posted a lighthearted video of herself dancing in a hospital room while nine months pregnant, she probably thought she was sharing a relatable moment that other mothers would appreciate,\u201d Mr Bouzy wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead, within hours, online trolls and conspiracy theorists weaponised it as \u2018proof\u2019 she was never pregnant at all.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on to say, \u201cthis nightmare is what Meghan\u2019s life has become\u201d, adding, \u201cevery joyful moment gets twisted into ammunition by people who\u2019ve made destroying her their full-time job\u201d.<\/p>\n Mr Bouzy said it wasn\u2019t even \u201cnormal criticism\u201d but described it as \u201cpsychological torture designed to break someone\u2019s spirit\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cImagine being nine months pregnant, your body aching, preparing to bring life into the world, and thousands of strangers are dissecting your every photo to \u2018prove\u2019 your baby isn\u2019t real,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cWithin hours, it became Exhibit A in the conspiracy theorists\u2019 case against her. They zoomed in on her moving belly, claiming it proves she wore a prosthetic. They analysed her IV line, suddenly becoming medical experts. They took a moment of joy and transformed it into a weapon.<\/p>\n \u201cMeghan is a real person with real feelings who carried and delivered two real children. She\u2019s a mother who can\u2019t share her joy without it being weaponised against her. The moonbump conspiracy isn\u2019t just false. It\u2019s an act of sustained cruelty against someone who dared to join the royal family while being Black, American, and unwilling to suffer in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n Meghan posted the now viral clip of herself performing Starrkeisha\u2019s \u2018Baby Momma\u2019 dance with her husband Prince Harry earlier this month with a simple caption about the family moment.<\/p>\n \u201cFour years ago today, this also happened. Both of our children were a week past their due dates\u2026 so when spicy food, all that walking, and acupuncture didn\u2019t work \u2014 there was only one thing left to do!\u201d she wrote on Instagram on June 5, alongside the video of her and Harry showing off their moves in the hospital suite.<\/p>\n She recently opened up about the video while speaking with British businesswoman and Dragons\u2019 Den star Emma Grede on her new Aspire Podcast, saying she wanted to show more of her \u201cauthentic self\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThat wasn\u2019t yesterday, that was four years ago,\u201d Meghan tells Grede, noting there was more to her life than people knew.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s also a really great reminder that with all the noise or whatever people do, there\u2019s still a whole life \u2014 a real, authentic, fun life \u2014 that\u2019s happening behind the scenes.<\/p>\n Despite the trolls, Meghan is still sharing more snippets of her life with her 3.9 million Instagram followers: \u201cI\u2019m just grateful that now, being back on social as well, I have a place where I can share it on my own terms,\u201d she told Grede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wholesome twerking video shared by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, to mark Princess Lilibet\u2019s fourth birthday earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,2766,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,448,7711,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-215632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-harry","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royals","19":"tag-uk-royal-family","20":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114749193897831067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Emma](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1becb913cf46284e65c6b855f307906c4dcdfde8.jpg\")
Emma Grede chats to Meghan Markle about her viral \u2018baby momma\u2019 dance video in a snippet of her new Aspire Podcast. Credit: Aspire Podcast, Emma Grede, Instagram<\/p>\n