Meghan shares rare personal details about her pregnancies: ‘Super woo woo’

“Super woo woo”: Meghan has opened up about her alternative approach to her two pregnancies in a candid new interview.

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Meghan has opened up about her pregnancies, revealing she consulted an ancient Indian medicine doctor and used mushrooms to help her cope.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, mother to Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 3, spoke about her experience during a conversation with Clevr Blends co-creator Hannah Mendoza on her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder.

Mendoza, the daughter of advertising mogul Marc Mendoza, launched her business in 2017, using adaptogenic properties found in some plants and mushrooms to create groundbreaking new coffee products.

Meghan was Clevr Blends’ first investor, and admitted during the episode that mushrooms are often seen as “a little psychedelic” and “super woo woo”.

“I think a lot of people when they hear mushrooms, they go ‘OK, she’s talking about being hippie-dippy, grounded in all these things’,” she said.

“If you aren’t familiar with adaptogens, you can go to this place of ‘Oh, it’s feeling a little psychedelic and super woo-woo’.”

Meghan during her first pregnancy with Archie, in early 2019. Picture: Chris Jackson/Pool/AFP

She opened up about her experience.

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Her husband, Prince Harry, previously revealed in his memoir and his Netflix series that he’d taken magic mushrooms – as well as cannabis and cocaine – before moving to the US in 2020.

However, Meghan’s experience was with a different type, not the same as hallucinogenic or “magic” mushrooms. Adaptogens can help reduce the effects of stress on the body.

Meghan went on to reveal she went to see an Ayurvedic practitioner during both of her pregnancies, which saw her focus on using “food as medicine”.

“So there are these items and ingredients that have been part of our natural ecosystem and dietary system for a long time, whether acknowledged or not, that somehow you say mushrooms, and now people have a connotation attached to it,” she told her friend.

“But it’s really just a food trend that I believe you were far ahead of in terms of saying, ‘hold on, these have properties that can in some way make you feel differently in a really safe way’.

“During my pregnancies, I had an Ayurvedic doctor and so much of it was about seeing food as medicine.”

She shared a picture of her second pregnancy in her Netflix series. Picture: Netflix

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Meghan also spoke candidly to Mendoza about the “painful” times in her life, admitting that “every day is not going to be the same” when you’re running a business.

“Some days are going to be harder to show up as your best and shiniest self,” Meghan said.

“Maybe on that day, something really painful happened in your real life, but for your team, that is not how you show up. You can’t.”

It comes amid an intense period for Meghan and Harry, who gave an explosive half-hour interview to the BBC on Friday after losing an appeal regarding his UK security detail, which was altered after the pair stepped down as working royals.

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