In an unexpected way, studying acting in college prepared Meghan Markle for her future as a founder.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, spoke about what she learned during her days at Northwestern University in a conversation with FIGS medical scrubs creator Heather Hasson on the latest episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder from Lemonada Media, released on May 13.
Meghan said, “I was a theater major, and part of the program was that you couldn’t just do the acting. You had to do soup-to-nuts, every part of what a production would entail, which I actually think is incredible training for when you’re running a team because you appreciate what the sound person does and what the lighting person does.”
“Wardrobe department and sewing were part of it too, so I am comfortable with a sewing machine,” she added, bringing the discussion back to Hasson’s introduction to her scrubs business.
At Northwestern, Meghan double-majored in theater and international relations. She went on to use her acting skills on Suits and other roles before leaving the acting world ahead of her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry.
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This isn’t the first time that the Duchess of Sussex has spoken about her college days on her podcast. In the April 22 episode, Meghan told friend and hair colorist Kadi Lee about styling her hair while living at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house.
“I don’t even think they made plug-in flat irons at the time,” she 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 side. I mean, probably half the people listening to this are going, ‘What is she talking about?’ “
“Or you’d pull it out, it would have the little scorch marks. And I remember most of the girls in the sorority who were not Black say, ‘What’s that smell?’ Is hair burning?’ And it was just what you would do to figure out how to grapple with this texture of hair,” Meghan recalled.
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