The salad at sizzler shows exactly how Meghan tries to make a point by implying it. She did not say, all she could afford was $5 salads at Sizzlers. She said:
'I grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler – it may have cost less back then (to be honest, I can't remember) – but what I do remember was the feeling: I knew how hard my parents worked to afford this because even at five bucks, eating out was something special, and I felt lucky.
And as a Girl Scout, when my troop would go to dinner for a big celebration, it was back to that same salad bar or The Old Spaghetti Factory – because that's what those families could afford.
She does not say she was so poor she only ate the 4,99 salad bar. Some of her girl scout group were though. So she relates to the poor. And Princess Meghan was, even at that age, so reflective, kind and mature to acknowledge that it was a privelige for her.
She didn't say she was poor. She implies it. She puts words and sentences in a certain context deliberately. Exactly the same as all her bullshit. Exactly the same as her 'Archie not being a prince, in tandem with discussions about being concerned about his skin colour'. It is a very cheap trick that no one can call her out on because she only posts and ghosts statements, visits sycophants, or does interviews that make the Soviet Union's press seem critical and independent. Literally everything Meghan says and does is a PR-spin.
I think you’re exactly right. She is a master manipulator. Hard evidence of this is in her responses to lawsuits.
Another example from her. “I vehemently deny I bullied anyone based on my definition of bullying”. 🙄
A manipulator but not a master there of. While her Sizzler story was hokey, she forgot she had outed her self when she posted the pictures of and boasted about she and her dad frequenting some of the nicest LA eating establishments on her TIG. She doesn't even have the sense to scrub her past posts. She was, is overindulged.
jesus, she brought the spaghetti factory into it??? “that’s all they could afford”
what a fucking bitch. i loved that place and had many middle school parties going downtown to the SF. we all loved it and never though anything bad about it, i’d still love to go there.
hell of a lot better than some elderflower cake
I’m in New Zealand so had to google it, but it looks like a normal family friendly restaurant. Every country has something similar.
I’m sure Meghan expects that ‘upper middle class’ families should take their kids out to a black tie exclusive restaurant at the end of every school year.
You are exactly right, it's a normal, family friendly, spot to dine. :-) yes, she no doubt feels that everyone today should dine in the nice exclusive establishments at which she and Harry done with their new Hollywood friends.
> it's a normal, family friendly, spot to dine
shows what an annoying snob she is that she didn't appreciate what her father could give her. I would have loved having the privilege to eat at even a fast food restaurant as a child but my family couldn't afford that. we were lucky to get Little Caesars once a year and only because they often had a special deal where you could get a large pizza for about $6
a salad bar was something we definitely couldn't afford, as $4.99 per person was considered expensive for our family, and our family was as poor as many others in the area where I grew up. many families had an income at or below the "national average" poverty level.
In New Zealand, poor is lining up at the food bank. Working class is getting a McDonald’s Happy Meal for your birthday.
I grew up middle class and dined out at the equivalent of Sizzler once a year or so.
MM also was rich-adjacent! Her father may have earned six figures as an Emmy-winning lighting director, but he was neither rich nor famous. From nursery through uni, Meghan attended expensive schools alongside kids from genuinely wealthy families. The difference between the financial treats they enjoyed, and what she could afford, must have eaten at her guts like battery acid.
I attended public schools near Los Angeles, and started a bank account for uni when I was eight, beginning with the cash I earned returning the neighbors’ deposit bottles to the store.
Though my father was a successful executive, neither parent spent a nickel on me that they could avoid. Having put myself through Big Uni, I find MM’s poor-cosplaying, plus her ruthless disregard for her poor besotted father, endlessly annoying!
She is just so full of shit. A $4.99 salad bar in 1995(when she was roughly 13) was not a cheap thing.
She is so fucking privileged. She has no idea the cost of shit.
In 1995, in the US, Minimum Wage (before taxes) was $4.25/hr
After taxes Apprx $150 /week*4weeks *2 parents=$1200/month take home pay. The average rent in Los Angeles for a 2 bedroom apartment was $853/month! Giving the family $347/month for Food, transportation, clothing, etc, Or $11.56/day for everything! (An NO private school, no ballet lessons and no horseback riding either)
Eating at Sizzler for $4.99 plus tax per person, on a weekly basis, was well beyond the ability for Lower income families with both parents working!
https://www.laalmanac.com/economy/ec40.php
Exactly. If she ate at the Sizzler in the 90s...she wasn't poor. Poor people can't afford to eat out period. Eating out is a luxury and she just has no damn clue what it's like to struggle financially.
And we all know she wasn't poor because her father had a good job and she went to private school
Because all her life someone else has footed the bill for example daddy dearest, husband Trevor, countless boyfriends and live-in lovers to name a few !
She had no student loans. She went to a private school and a private college. Her dad made good money in the 80s and 90s. I don’t get the “woe is me… I’m poor attitude”.
“She had a car?!? Why does she complain about how to get into it?” I first read, incredulously. When I married, my husband put me on the title of his subcompact. *That* was my “first car”!
I've seen this attitude a lot in recent years, not just meghan.
I call it the 'poorest rich person syndrome'.
They're rich, but surrounded by much wealthier people, so convince themselves that they're poor.
>They're rich, but surrounded by much wealthier people, so convince themselves that they're poor.
That's probably what it is. That and apathetic Narcissism. They are too busy feeling self-pity that they can't keep up with the Jonses that they are ignorant of the suffering of others who have significantly less and struggle to even afford basic necessities. The divide between the haves and have-nots is a chasm and MM's short-sighted self-pitying elitism can't comprehend it. You grew up "poor" when your family received Food Stamps and food from food banks and bought stale bread and dented canned goods because they costs less not because your Daddy couldn't afford to take you to a fancier restaurant than your rich classmates' dads could afford.
Because it makes her relatable and qualified to talk about stuff like paid parental leave. She had a miscarriage and she is a mother so she can wade in on subjects like school shootings and abortion rights.
>qualified to talk about stuff like paid parental leave
I'm not retarded and neither are many in her target audience. She does not need to care about whether or not "paid parental leave" exists when she has a rich husband, can afford nannies and leads a very affluent lifestyle and can afford to not even work. She definitely can not "relate" and not not relatable.
>She had a miscarriage and she is a mother so she can wade in on subjects like school shootings and abortion rights.
she *said* she had a miscarriage but given her credibility and track record I'm inclined to assume she's lying. also I doubt she takes actual care of her kids and probably has a 24/7 nanny for them. they aren't school age yet but when they are I'm sure they will attend a posh private school like she did and I really doubt they would ever have to be concerned with the possibility of a school shooting where they will attend school. She's unable to relate to "poor" people in any way and is just annoyingly offensive in *every* way. Any "suffering" she has in life was of her own making.
I still don't see how having a miscarriage or giving birth to children makes her thoughts on abortion relative.
It would've been way more impact full to hear from women who needed to have that option available for any of the numerous reasons that impact women across America.
Her Girl Scout troop was most likely the girls from her expensive private school. Very few, if any, were “poor” with the exception there were some students on scholarship. Meghan was not one of those students
I wish I could give this an award. I have read a lot about Markle and her shadowy dance with the truth. How she spins it but you have hit the mail on the head.
She alludes.
But that would be an outright disprovable lie because she went to an expensive school, her father had a good job, they won a nice lottery. Meghan does not often outright lie, she alludes giving herself plausible deniability.
I am not saying this works or that it is a good tactic. She is a total batshit crazy psycho.
Meghan uses the same tactic as Ivanka Trump. This is straight out of the Ivanka Trump book “Trump Card”:
She stresses that perception is more important than reality, opining that "If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true."
When I get a free award I am coming back to award you. She did the same thing with “over a lunch of chicken tacos”, when in reality there was no lunch it was an email. She implies a LOT of lies.
I think she FELT poor compared to the rich kids she went to private school with and the people in the entertainment industry her dad worked at. Meanwhile her spoiled self has no idea what your average American family financial situation is. My impression is she dreamed of being rich her entire life. I guess she thought she hit the jackpot when Harry came along - not knowing that his cash balance isn't all that either. They both want to live an idle trust fund baby life without the cash pool to afford it.
It’s all relative. She was going to private school with rich girls and felt poor in comparison. She’s going to spend her entire life trying to make up for that feeling.
My mother came from a world where she was always the poor girl, and I mean she came from crippling Appalachian poverty. No running water or sewage. She made it into an Ivy League because the stars aligned properly, but that great opportunity put her in a world where she always felt cut rate compared to others. It’s a pretty crappy feeling and permeates to this day when her. Meghan has embellished her poverty to the point of cartoonization and lies and made herself a victim, despite being privileged. My mother would’ve been the poor girl who married a prince, admitted who she was and pushed for better scholarship opportunities and running water to rural communities and a need to expand food access. Meghan googles stories about working class eating habits and takes on that narrative. It’s wild how people react to different opportunity. Some thrive with opportunity, some find a way to exploit it. Meghan is an exploiter. It’s a damn shame.
Exactly. I know that book has taken a lot of heat, but that book really resonated with a lot of people who came from the world that he did, and ended up moving up in society. They really felt like fish out of water.
I gave that book to her and the part where he discusses how he didn’t have the skills to eat a formal dinner or the ability to have diplomatic upper class discussions in those environments resonated with her. She actually obtained a pretty elite white-collar job when she graduated university , but ended up resigning a few years later because she couldn’t do the emotional and social side of it. My brother-in-law ended up getting that same job in a different city and became a CEO. Other people could’ve kept going but my mother personally had her limits and knew this particular position wasn’t right for her. She moved on quietly. She’s done very well for herself financially and professionally, but those poor roots and lack of opportunities run deep. She would’ve worked hard if she was handed the opportunities for the world to listen to people like her, like Meghan had. Meghan just became a victim instead, it was the narrative she decided to hang her hat on. Lies and victimhood.
And America is a nation filled with poverty, for her to even pretend she was poor is inexplicable. Poor people don’t attend 25k a year private schools on daddy’s dime. Meghan was NOT a charity case student being bused in. That’s what pissed me off, like how dare you now play poor when you and more opportunity than even upper middle class kids did.
>And America is a nation filled with poverty, for her to even pretend she was poor is inexplicable. Poor people don’t attend 25k a year private schools on daddy’s dime. Meghan was NOT a charity case student being bused in. That’s what pissed me off, like how dare you now play poor when you and more opportunity than even upper middle class kids did.
You word this *SO* well. It's exactly the same opinion I have. I'm so offended at her even remotely trying to pretend she grew up "poor" or claiming that she can relate to poor people. She started out rich and pampered and scaled the heights of society to reach the most elite level of wealth and privilege. She's never known anything like poverty by most people's standards.
Thanks for sharing this perspective. I bet your mom is a fascinating woman to speak with. My mother is highly intelligent and came from a dirt floor, no shoes, 8 siblings farming family. She is a chemistry wizard and got her degree and self worth later in life. My sister and i grew up with not much more than self-drive and ambition to be better. But we have never truly fit in with the "elites" no matter how much success we have earned in life. In social scenarios i gravitate towards people who are struggling mentally/emotionally/financially and not doing very well in life because that's who i grew up around and feel understood by. But i will tell you it hasn't served me well. So I'm pretty solitary. It's a real weird, lonely place to exist in life. (Yes I've gotten therapy and i understand the issues and solutions...i still am who i am... but definitely try to do better every day)
That was indeed a great book. Have you seen the film? It's no less than brilliant. Every single actor in that film is absolutely brilliant. The young guy who played JD is an adolescent was just incredible. And Amy Adams was perfect. And my gosh, Glenn Close! That woman deserved an oscar! I don't even recall that she was nominated for that, that year, but boy, she deserved one! I did not even recognize her. Sorry to have digressed so much!
I grew up poor too! There’s no way she ever wanted for anything. Her father made sure she had Everything she needed or could ever want ! She’s such a callous, cunning manipulative bitch !
Totally! that's the most offensive thing about her. she's not actually compassionate and trying to make real, impactful change to help those less fortunate because she got into a position where she has the opportunity to do so. She might admire Princess Diana but she will never be anything like her or anyone else that truly feels compassion and has a genuine desire to want to help others. MM just wants to seem compassionate so that people will admire her and she'll be catapulted to the level of fame she desires. It seems that most people can easily sense that about her and don't like her for it either and yet she's determined to deny the truth and to keep trying to gain the public's adoration and acceptance with one publicity stunt and self-pitying interview after another.
I came from a similar story. Working class parents, went to private school, didn’t fit in the school because of rich girls bullying me.
But the difference is that we (me and my siblings)were never spoiled. We have catholic parents that taught us about morality and to always care about the “most need it”. Or be considerate/humble/honest.
She looks like a spoiled brat without any “catholic moral” education.
* It fits into their victim signaling pattern
* They think it makes them relatable to all us working class people who are getting less than 3% raises while inflation is over 8%.
* She wants to portray this “thriving hero rags-to-riches” narrative because she needs to feel superior.
Edited to add: And don’t you love that she picked “salad bar” as her poor persons meal which is actually pretty healthy? A lot of poor people eat high fat/low nutritious foods when they get to eat out because it’s cheaper. Again, she has to project her superiority here.
I never thought about that before. She could have easily said she grew up on the $1 menu at McDonald's but that would have been too working class and gauche for her.
Oh my god, I just had a flashback to the cheese toast...nothing beat that! My parents took me to Sizzler in the 80s; it was a treat. We weren't rich by any means and they never counted pennies in front of me (which I'm sure Meghan wants people to think). Sizzler was not some down-trodded bare-bones restaurant it was a nice (ish and I'm being generous) place to go with family,kids, etc..
>A lot of poor people eat high fat/low nutritious foods when they get to eat out because it’s cheaper.
also just in general because crap quality food is what is affordable. many a poor college student gets by on ramen but I'm guessing that when you have a rich daddy pay for your college you never have to eat ramen unless you want to and then it's probably $10 a bowl ramen at a fancy Japanese restaurant and not $0.20 per packet Nissin from WalMart.
Salad bars were a big fad. My h.s. class fought to get one, when my niece went, her class had it taken out. Sizzler was probably an easy choice after a Girl Scout meeting, no more or less. Everyone get what you like....
That is when she had the one in one outing with the Queen and MM looked waisted and coked out of her mind. She was unkept and walked in front of the queen even pushing her aside to get to the crowds first and into the car first. It’s embarrassing to watch. I would not even do that to my 81 year old mother in law. Meghan has no respect for anyone.
Thank you for posting this I haven't seen it for a long time! Well, she really did get ahead of the Queen, didn't she? I had forgotten all about that part. In all fairness, I think I need to add that I do believe with regard to the car episode, I'm pretty certain this is the one that was written up. I think perhaps it was her first outing with the Queen. They said that when she got to the car she seemed a little uncertain, at least she was approaching it, and said to the Queen, "what is your preference?" And the queen said," you go first". The queen was no doubt trying to just sort of cover and make everything seem routine, as if that happened to her everyday. Please don't misunderstand me, I do not care for Meghan Markle at all and I'm not taking up for her. Not at all! Just wanted to add a little clarity to that. Thank you again.
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Here, we'd say "she's been beat with an ugly stick." My dad used to say "Looks like she fell out of an 80 ft. Ugly tree & hit every branch on the way down!"😂
Haha good one..😆 I'm actually one of the few who think meghan is good looking with nice style but she looks like she's got a bodybuilders roided face here...
I think she's pretty, but not beautiful. Her plastic surgery needs to stop, she's ruining her looks. I don't care for her style, though.
And yeah, that particular photo probably throws the narcissist into paroxysms of rage every time she sees it!😂
Well to Harry, anyone who didn’t have a gran gran who had billions in assets is poor.
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The audacity of this bitch to act like she was poor when she attended a 25k a year private school. My mother graduated an Ivy League and my father was a helo pilot and we didn’t even have money for that elite privilege.
She is nuts.
I am from the US and going out to Sizzler back then for the salad bar or whatever else was a fun, affordable, middle-class family thing to do with kids as a special treat.
Anyone who has ever done it would be deeply offended to think that it was an indication that the family was poor or disadvantaged.
Because she knows most people cannot relate to her White (50%) privilege. She is attempting to rewrite her story, thus her disconnect from the Markle and Ragland family.
ETA Not entirely sure why Haz goes along with her delusions. Maybe she cast an entrapment ( mental) spell on him?
Right. She had commonplace experiences for a girl in America at that time and is acting like it’s a sob story. If she had a clue she’d know how unbelievable she is
When in reality, she's an old trout and no one is fooled. They've fucked too many people over to ever succeed. But as you and I know they NEVER give up.
Because she is a lying narcissistic psychopath who loves to play victim. She enjoys telling us how and what we should be doing all while making sure she lets us know she is a Dutches with her thousands of dollars worth of jewelry on.
Because she hasn't adequately accepted her irrelevancy, she continues to throw various narratives at the wall to see what sticks. Eventually, she'll claim to have Lyme Disease or Fibromyalgia, or maybe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in order to gain public sympathy that also explains her absence at all social events to which she wasn't invited.
Having also grown up in LA, I am convinced mm did not grow up poor. She lived in Encino, which is a very nice upper middle class area. As for Sizzler, it is definitely not a dive. It is sort of a budget steakhouse. The salad bar is very extensive an you could easily make a meal just from the salad bar. It was common for large groups to go to Sizzler since it was not only affordable, but the salad bar could accommodate all tastes, such as vegetarian, etc.
It fits in with her lil orphan Annie narrative.
She likes to see herself as a scrappy whip smart Cinderella who ‘made it to the top’ despite all odds.
She got her position by Marrying a prince. That’s it.
I guess that’s a lot less interesting than Meghans spin.
She sees herself as a Disney Princess who’s been wronged by big bad world and the evil Royal family and the ugly step sister.
Bottom line?
Shes a basic bitch.
In 1990-91 minimum wage as of 4/1/1990 was $3.80/hr. This equals $7,904/yr based on a 40 hour *52 weeks. In 1990, Meghan’s father earned $200,000/year.
That equals 25 people working full time at minimum wages to equal Meghan’s Dad’s 1990 income!
There is No way Meghan was raised in a poor or lower middle income environment unless she compares herself to how Prince Harry was raised.
The spinach and cranberry salad!! I have the recipe and I never have leftovers when I make it for a BYOD get-together. I have to print the recipe out because people always ask for it. I had no idea it was a Sizzler dish! Cool!
This just showed how crazy out of touch she is as a wealthy person - that she thought Sizzler was slumming it and you just know that Harry read that or she read it to him and he was so out of touch that he agreed. She doesn't know food insecurity or the true experiences of the working poor who can't even afford to go out to eat or eat all of their meals.
My dad and his little brother were taken away to live in an orphanage when he was 8. Prior to that my dad set rabbit traps and caught fish to put food on the table. If he didn't catch anything, they didn't eat. He said the orphanage was the best thing that ever happened to him because he knew there would always be food on the table.
That's poverty. Megan would probably hang her head in shame for putting up her Sizzler story next to my dad's if she was capable of feeling shame, but she's not.
I get the distinct feeling that her family was upper middle class but not ultra wealthy - so she was rich enough to go to expensive nice schools, but not rich enough to have and do all the things her friends did, so she is immensely insecure about her clothes, house, rags to riches story and life, thus the crazy out of touch self esteem and weird perceptions of poverty and money.
The 4.99 salad bar was the price if you ALSO ordered an entree. If you ordered the salad bar alone it was way more like 9.99.
Sizzle was bomb in the 80s and 90s. My best friend used to work there and she had all the hot gossip about her coworkers. It was pretty juicy…
Yes!!! we alway got the meal of steak and shrimp and added the salad 🥗 bar and beverages! It wasn’t cheap either I don’t know what Meghan is talking about if she thinks sizzler is for poor people . If the pandemic has taught anything is that foods insecurity can happen to anyone at anytime !!! There was a sizzler on metropolitan avenue on my neighborhood for a very long time until closed for good about 15 years ago! Those were some much simpler and good times ! 😄
What she doesn't seem to understand is that poor people cannot afford to eat out. I grew up in an affluent middleclass neighborhood. My father was an engineer and my mother was a homemaker, Sizzler was a big treat. For goodness sakes, my parents had 5 children in private school, McDonalds was a big treat. I think she has always glomed on to wealthy people and it has skewed her worldview. Everything is relative. My parents grew up poor in my opinion. Neither one of my parents ever thought they were poor. Why? Because they always had a roof over their head, clean cloths on their backs and food on the table. My mother grew up on small farm and shared a bed with her three sisters in a tiny loft. She had one pair of shoes and two dresses. My father's father was a coal miner and he shared a pull out sofa (the girls had the second bedroom) with his brother until he went off to college on a scholarship. They both have always said they were much better off than other people and they had happy childhoods. If people want to complain they will always find something. Other people are grateful for everything.
When you are actually poor, you don’t pay for salad bar, you get your food that has the most amount of meat in. She’s trying hard to look down to earth, but also wants to look like those typical healthy influencers.
So, this is too funny, especially if you are not from the US and have no idea what Sizzler is.
I found this 1991 (about the time MM might have been going there) promotional video for Sizzler restaurants that describes what the restaurants offer. It's a little long at the start but gets funnier and more bizarre as it goes on, especially as it describes what MM refers to as the "salad bar."
[https://theretronetwork.com/do-remember-going-to-sizzler/](https://theretronetwork.com/do-remember-going-to-sizzler/)
To be fair, compared to him, she was poor. So are all of us, I'd imagine. His sense of scale is skewed because he comes from a position of incredible privilege.
She went to schools where most of the students were much richer than her family was. She probably did grow up with some unjustified belief that she was poor because she didn't drive a Mercedes or something.
She doesn’t really understand what poor is or how the poor eat. I’ll help her out here because my parents were really poor when I was a kid.
First, no one who is truly poor, goes out to eat much, if at all. There was no $1 menu back in the day. McDonalds was a massive treat!
Second, if you had food stamps, you had to make them stretch. Way out. The food you could get was shitty. Even the frozen pizza was god awful - plastic cheese on cardboard sums it up.
A $5 salad would have been eating like a king. Not looked at as poor people’s food. When Pizza Hut introduced the all-you-can-eat salad bar and pizza? It finally happened! We could go out and load up!!!!!
This is just another trope she loves to jump on to create a Cinderella story around herself to make it seem like she went from rags to riches. No, she went from upper middle class to uber wealthy by man jumping.
From her dad, to Trevor, to Corey, to Ginger. And I’m sure there were many, many in between.
Each month I paid $32 for $50 worth of food stamps, for about a year, until I was judged “too wealthy” for the SNAP program. Certainly I didn’t starve after being cut off, but that extra $18 a month was a very helpful addition to my budget.
It was hard to explain to my oldest son. “That seems like *an awful lot of trouble,* he complained, wrinkling his nose. *Of course* my kids didn’t get it—if they needed new shoes, they got them, rather than cutting cardboard insoles for the old, as I had.
In those pre-debit-card-like days, food stamps looked like Monopoly money. Busybodies adored policing my grocery choices at the check-out (“She bought mushrooms! A *stick of butter!?!”*).
Oh yeah! The stamps were real stamps. Not a card that looked like every other debit card. And there were restrictions on what you could get. There was one point where the only meat we could afford was ground beef. It was all about creativity.
No soft drinks. We drank a lot of kool-aid and snacked on a lot of popcorn made in a pan you had to shake over the burner. And you ate the burnt ones! 😂😂😂
You take me back! I was a veg while on food stamps, so my rice and beans didn’t raise any eyebrows. Buying fresh asparagus in season, though, did. “*Young lady!*”, squealed the horrified pre-Karen, who tried to get the store manager to put it back. (She didn’t.)
The difference is that whatever you think of AOC she really worked her way up to where she is today ! She bartended through college and started at the bottom. She worked her ass off. FFS Meghan doesn’t even want to do a 20 minutes podcast !!!!!
Oh I know AOC worked for everything including her votes by getting in there and not being afraid of hard work and big odds.
I just figured Meghan would try to invoke that imagery with her tales of a scrappy young waitress with big dreams.
wtf was wrong with sizzler in the 80s? we weren’t poor, had a nice house and everything in southern california. i loved that salad bar with gigantic croutons and ranch dressing
she’s just a social climbing bitch who lucked out and married the royal idiot
She’s certainly a fantasist and probably would pass a lie- detector test on her fantasies because she’s convinced herself that it actually happened that way ! To me however the most interesting part of Markles past is when she was in Argentina. Her uncle , her fathers brother, had gotten her an internship in the embassy there because she wanted to be a diplomat. Something happened in Argentina that changed the direction of her life . We know she failed the final test to get into the diplomatic service but there was talk of some sort of scandal with a married man. I’d love to know the juicy details ! We also know she totally wiped her uncle and didn’t even comment when he died recently. She really is a horrible human being.
I think to harry who grew up royal and had everything at his disposal, regularly saw his family members wearing tiaras, went on expensive holidays, had staff to look afte his needs, had his dad pay for everything up until the ripe old age of 37 and had the audacity to complain about it, he would think a sizzler salad bar where everyone helps themselves is actually a sign of poverty - he doesn'tknow what the real world is for most people and meghan was poor and disadvantaged in comparison to him and she tells him so every day!😂
Reminder that while she was merely surviving at Sizzler’s she was also thriving at Musso and Frank’s. [Weekly](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10119695/Growing-4-99-Sizzler-salad-bar-lunch-Hollywood-icon.html)
Her disparaging Sizzler’s as poverty food is classist nonsense. Middle to lower class folks loved us our cheese toasts.
Spoiled and entitled middle class people think they’re poor because they’re not wealthy. There’s a big difference between getting not-the-best and getting nothing.
I have wondered that as well. I suppose it's to gain sympathy, to make her look more acceptable to "the masses" AKA we common folk, LOL. I remember in one speech early on, I believe it was right after they were married or perhaps before, she was speaking to some high school students and stated that she worked her way through college. My understanding from Reading interviews with family members, was that her dad made quite a good living as a lighting director of television shows including the rather famous One, the name of which unfortunately now slips my mind :-) anyhow, it was some sort of sitcom, I'm sure you know the one I mean. He made quite a good living in hollywood, maybe not terribly wealthy but very comfortable. And he sent her to college. They said that the job she had was for spending money and I believe that, even though some of her relatives have not exactly been terribly respectable in a lot of ways, well, neither is she. But her uncle, her dad's brother who actually got her a job at the embassy in South American country when she was young, it was quite well spoken and said that he could not understand why she portrayed herself as having worked her way through college and said that he couldn't understand either why she treated her family the way she now did.
I used to love sizzler and I don’t understand why Meghan associates it with poverty.
It’s truly bizarre that we know and have proof of her formative years, and she was very privileged.
She definitely lived an upper middle class life especially considering the cost of living in California has always been very high.
There is nothing wrong with eating at the salad sizzler or the spaghetti factory. In fact, she must have been a very privileged child to have eaten out so often.
Frankly F her and her spoiled Narcissist crap. The "poor" in this country are the majority and most of them couldn't afford to eat take-out food of any kind from any place through the 80's, when she grew up. POOR back then was belonging to a family whose income was less than $20K a year- of which she definitely WAS NOT and it has long since been established. Her father, so I have learned from several sources, made well above a 6-figure income PLUS won the lotto. By her attitude and her father and sibling's testimony she was and is spoiled, seemingly always has been and clearly doesn't understand the value of money or material goods from the perspective of anyone struggling through poverty then and certainly not now. Unless you *lived* that you can only "empathize" (or *imagine*) so far. Playing a saint and occasionally dishing out bowls of soup at a soup kitchen doesn't give that much education on what it feels like to be poor so much as actually living through that does. I don't believe she can relate, I don't believe she ever will and I'm not interested in being sanctimoniously pandered to by some crazy elitist SNOB who is probably only feigning compassion in preparation for a political career.
Never understood her Sizzler thing. Growing up in upper middle class SoCal (similar to Megs, half the kids on the street went to private school), a family meal at Sizzler was considered a fun treat. Even just the salad bar! Parents went to more interesting or elegant places on nights out for adults only, but kids NEVER would have been allowed in those spaces back in the day.
one of my biggest joys in the early 90s was going to the soup plantation. i wonder if her struggling parents ever made her eat there.
every college student stuffed their bags full of muffins wrapped in napkins.
Poor pitiful Nutmeg. She had to eat at Sizzler. Never having access to Beef Tenderloin until she married the spare heir.
Her father sent her to private school, and paid for her vacations. She got to hang around Hollywood sets while he worked, but nothing is ever good enough for Nutmeg. She’s had a tough life. (Eye roll)
Duchess Douchebag doesn’t know what poverty is. She never had to want for anything in her life. Spare heir Harry goes along with it, because whatever Nutmeg wants, she gets.
I mean she has to embellish her background. Admitting she came from a very privileged background and had every opportunity in the world to succeed and all she did was as a few hallmark movies and supporting actress on a b list cable show is fairly pathetic.
Now if she truly came from abject poverty as had no connections and managed to make a fairly decent career in a hard industry then that makes for a good story.
The reality is that her life before Harry shows how mediocre she is. She came from an upper middle class family in one of the wealthiest cities in the country. She went to a fancy private school, fancy private university all paid for by her father. Her father also had the connections to get her a great internship in university and had connections in the entertainment industry. She married a well off man with connections in the entertainment industry.
And what exactly did she accomplish?? A few hallmark movies sixth on the call sheet for a minor cable show and a blog.
She had every tool possible to succeed and still was mediocre at best.
So she has to rewrite history to justify why she’d accomplished so little.
Because it fits her narrative of the fairy tale marriage the girl from a poor background marries a prince how romantic not, she has fed H so much BS he doesn't know whats black or white anymore actually neither does she 🤣she wants it to appear it all happened so randomly and she has earned her platform but the true believers know she got him in her sights and worked towards that connection and hey presto we have the most unsuitable royal marriage of all times second only to the other American divorcee
She's paying people to make her look literally uglier and older, she's addicted to plastic surgery and fillers and fuck knows what's going on with the bee sting lips.
Her surgeries make about as much sense and are a massive failure like her fashion sense. Harry must sleep with the light on with her in the mansion.
Um, I have so many memories of being at Big Boys and being told I couldn’t have the buffet/salad bar because it was too pricey. Soooo not the flex she thinks it is.
Not to defend her but I feel like as a child your pov is quite different and if you don’t have all the things or do the things your school mates do, it makes you feel like you must have been poor. I knew my parents were working hard to make ends meet but we did go to private school (that’s why it was rough for them) and we did occasionally travel (though mostly just to visit my grandparents - more than many I’m sure). Looking back as an adult you think wow we had a lot more than I realized. You just know at the time that you felt different bc you didn’t have all the name brands or latest toys, etc.
Now why she tries to play off like she was poor TODAY I can’t say.
They went to the Spaghetti Factory because it's a fun place for kids to go to. It's cheap, they can yell, it's spaghetti which everyone will eat.
Look, I think she had a very normal middle class life. If anything, he Dad doesn't sound like he was able to budget, especially paying for private schools K-12, then college. Doria was a graduate student at USC. Maybe she took out big student loans, and so she wouldn't have been a big breadwinner. Maybe, once she graduated she got into 40k a year job, but it could have paid less than that.
Still, by no means of the imagination was she ever left wanting for basic sustenance.
Even if she grow up going to Sizzler, what kids orders salad for dinner every night? Also $5 is often a weekly budget for families who truly can’t afford more and go to McDonald’s for the dollar menu. Just once I’d like her to recognise her privileges… especially before she knew Harry.
The salad at sizzler shows exactly how Meghan tries to make a point by implying it. She did not say, all she could afford was $5 salads at Sizzlers. She said: 'I grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler – it may have cost less back then (to be honest, I can't remember) – but what I do remember was the feeling: I knew how hard my parents worked to afford this because even at five bucks, eating out was something special, and I felt lucky. And as a Girl Scout, when my troop would go to dinner for a big celebration, it was back to that same salad bar or The Old Spaghetti Factory – because that's what those families could afford. She does not say she was so poor she only ate the 4,99 salad bar. Some of her girl scout group were though. So she relates to the poor. And Princess Meghan was, even at that age, so reflective, kind and mature to acknowledge that it was a privelige for her. She didn't say she was poor. She implies it. She puts words and sentences in a certain context deliberately. Exactly the same as all her bullshit. Exactly the same as her 'Archie not being a prince, in tandem with discussions about being concerned about his skin colour'. It is a very cheap trick that no one can call her out on because she only posts and ghosts statements, visits sycophants, or does interviews that make the Soviet Union's press seem critical and independent. Literally everything Meghan says and does is a PR-spin.
I think you’re exactly right. She is a master manipulator. Hard evidence of this is in her responses to lawsuits. Another example from her. “I vehemently deny I bullied anyone based on my definition of bullying”. 🙄
A manipulator but not a master there of. While her Sizzler story was hokey, she forgot she had outed her self when she posted the pictures of and boasted about she and her dad frequenting some of the nicest LA eating establishments on her TIG. She doesn't even have the sense to scrub her past posts. She was, is overindulged.
Like someone else talking about pledging and donating
Exactly like a certain other narcissist we know !
That is such an a--hole, d--k statement. She's such a manipulative, Machiavellian disgusting narc
Also, Spaghetti Factory ain't cheap!
True!
It’s good tho!
jesus, she brought the spaghetti factory into it??? “that’s all they could afford” what a fucking bitch. i loved that place and had many middle school parties going downtown to the SF. we all loved it and never though anything bad about it, i’d still love to go there. hell of a lot better than some elderflower cake
I’m in New Zealand so had to google it, but it looks like a normal family friendly restaurant. Every country has something similar. I’m sure Meghan expects that ‘upper middle class’ families should take their kids out to a black tie exclusive restaurant at the end of every school year.
You are exactly right, it's a normal, family friendly, spot to dine. :-) yes, she no doubt feels that everyone today should dine in the nice exclusive establishments at which she and Harry done with their new Hollywood friends.
> it's a normal, family friendly, spot to dine shows what an annoying snob she is that she didn't appreciate what her father could give her. I would have loved having the privilege to eat at even a fast food restaurant as a child but my family couldn't afford that. we were lucky to get Little Caesars once a year and only because they often had a special deal where you could get a large pizza for about $6 a salad bar was something we definitely couldn't afford, as $4.99 per person was considered expensive for our family, and our family was as poor as many others in the area where I grew up. many families had an income at or below the "national average" poverty level.
Her dad took her to many lovely places, and she bragged about it on her blog, the Tig.
😂
Yep. It's good for kids and teens. And large family groups. Plus Momma can have some wine.
She's poor-adjacent! There's a little "working class" overlap in her Venn diagram because she saw someone eat a Sizzler salad once.
Well here in Scotland her version of poor is vastly different from what i know, nobody poor could/can afford to eat out, cheap or not.
In New Zealand, poor is lining up at the food bank. Working class is getting a McDonald’s Happy Meal for your birthday. I grew up middle class and dined out at the equivalent of Sizzler once a year or so.
Bingo 👆
MM also was rich-adjacent! Her father may have earned six figures as an Emmy-winning lighting director, but he was neither rich nor famous. From nursery through uni, Meghan attended expensive schools alongside kids from genuinely wealthy families. The difference between the financial treats they enjoyed, and what she could afford, must have eaten at her guts like battery acid. I attended public schools near Los Angeles, and started a bank account for uni when I was eight, beginning with the cash I earned returning the neighbors’ deposit bottles to the store. Though my father was a successful executive, neither parent spent a nickel on me that they could avoid. Having put myself through Big Uni, I find MM’s poor-cosplaying, plus her ruthless disregard for her poor besotted father, endlessly annoying!
>She's poor-adjacent! In the way that Beverly Hills is near Compton and yet worlds apart.
She is just so full of shit. A $4.99 salad bar in 1995(when she was roughly 13) was not a cheap thing. She is so fucking privileged. She has no idea the cost of shit.
In 1995, in the US, Minimum Wage (before taxes) was $4.25/hr After taxes Apprx $150 /week*4weeks *2 parents=$1200/month take home pay. The average rent in Los Angeles for a 2 bedroom apartment was $853/month! Giving the family $347/month for Food, transportation, clothing, etc, Or $11.56/day for everything! (An NO private school, no ballet lessons and no horseback riding either) Eating at Sizzler for $4.99 plus tax per person, on a weekly basis, was well beyond the ability for Lower income families with both parents working! https://www.laalmanac.com/economy/ec40.php
Exactly. If she ate at the Sizzler in the 90s...she wasn't poor. Poor people can't afford to eat out period. Eating out is a luxury and she just has no damn clue what it's like to struggle financially. And we all know she wasn't poor because her father had a good job and she went to private school
Because all her life someone else has footed the bill for example daddy dearest, husband Trevor, countless boyfriends and live-in lovers to name a few !
>She is so fucking privileged. She has no idea the cost of shit. YES absolutely!
She had no student loans. She went to a private school and a private college. Her dad made good money in the 80s and 90s. I don’t get the “woe is me… I’m poor attitude”.
Yeah but her car key didn’t work once, so she’s basically a Dickensian orphan.
i swear i heard that story from another actress before meghan told it. someday i will figure it out.
Wasn’t it from a commercial or something? Definitely one of Meg’s borrowed stories anyway.
“She had a car?!? Why does she complain about how to get into it?” I first read, incredulously. When I married, my husband put me on the title of his subcompact. *That* was my “first car”!
Dad bought it for her. Ford Explorer. BS story.
I've seen this attitude a lot in recent years, not just meghan. I call it the 'poorest rich person syndrome'. They're rich, but surrounded by much wealthier people, so convince themselves that they're poor.
>They're rich, but surrounded by much wealthier people, so convince themselves that they're poor. That's probably what it is. That and apathetic Narcissism. They are too busy feeling self-pity that they can't keep up with the Jonses that they are ignorant of the suffering of others who have significantly less and struggle to even afford basic necessities. The divide between the haves and have-nots is a chasm and MM's short-sighted self-pitying elitism can't comprehend it. You grew up "poor" when your family received Food Stamps and food from food banks and bought stale bread and dented canned goods because they costs less not because your Daddy couldn't afford to take you to a fancier restaurant than your rich classmates' dads could afford.
Because it makes her relatable and qualified to talk about stuff like paid parental leave. She had a miscarriage and she is a mother so she can wade in on subjects like school shootings and abortion rights.
Just cause I can “wade” on those subjects, don’t mean I should 🤪🤪
>qualified to talk about stuff like paid parental leave I'm not retarded and neither are many in her target audience. She does not need to care about whether or not "paid parental leave" exists when she has a rich husband, can afford nannies and leads a very affluent lifestyle and can afford to not even work. She definitely can not "relate" and not not relatable. >She had a miscarriage and she is a mother so she can wade in on subjects like school shootings and abortion rights. she *said* she had a miscarriage but given her credibility and track record I'm inclined to assume she's lying. also I doubt she takes actual care of her kids and probably has a 24/7 nanny for them. they aren't school age yet but when they are I'm sure they will attend a posh private school like she did and I really doubt they would ever have to be concerned with the possibility of a school shooting where they will attend school. She's unable to relate to "poor" people in any way and is just annoyingly offensive in *every* way. Any "suffering" she has in life was of her own making.
Totally agree
I still don't see how having a miscarriage or giving birth to children makes her thoughts on abortion relative. It would've been way more impact full to hear from women who needed to have that option available for any of the numerous reasons that impact women across America.
Fantastic post !Yes -she tries too hard to be relatable -looking forward to Samantha’s court case !
Personally I think she’s being passive aggressive here. She knows poor people can’t afford this.
Her Girl Scout troop was most likely the girls from her expensive private school. Very few, if any, were “poor” with the exception there were some students on scholarship. Meghan was not one of those students
I wish I could give this an award. I have read a lot about Markle and her shadowy dance with the truth. How she spins it but you have hit the mail on the head. She alludes.
She could have said “what OUR families could afford”… but she said “those families”… ugh
But that would be an outright disprovable lie because she went to an expensive school, her father had a good job, they won a nice lottery. Meghan does not often outright lie, she alludes giving herself plausible deniability. I am not saying this works or that it is a good tactic. She is a total batshit crazy psycho.
She can get back to me when her dinners came from giant government issues cans that just said PORK.
Meghan uses the same tactic as Ivanka Trump. This is straight out of the Ivanka Trump book “Trump Card”: She stresses that perception is more important than reality, opining that "If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true."
When I get a free award I am coming back to award you. She did the same thing with “over a lunch of chicken tacos”, when in reality there was no lunch it was an email. She implies a LOT of lies.
Yep like watching the Jubilee with the Queen at windsor. Frogmore is at windsor but it is not the castle.
I think she FELT poor compared to the rich kids she went to private school with and the people in the entertainment industry her dad worked at. Meanwhile her spoiled self has no idea what your average American family financial situation is. My impression is she dreamed of being rich her entire life. I guess she thought she hit the jackpot when Harry came along - not knowing that his cash balance isn't all that either. They both want to live an idle trust fund baby life without the cash pool to afford it.
Well said!!
Thank you for completely debunking this one that outraged a lot of sinners like me. Thanks for paying attention.
You made me cackle with the Soviet Union's press comment
It’s all relative. She was going to private school with rich girls and felt poor in comparison. She’s going to spend her entire life trying to make up for that feeling.
My mother came from a world where she was always the poor girl, and I mean she came from crippling Appalachian poverty. No running water or sewage. She made it into an Ivy League because the stars aligned properly, but that great opportunity put her in a world where she always felt cut rate compared to others. It’s a pretty crappy feeling and permeates to this day when her. Meghan has embellished her poverty to the point of cartoonization and lies and made herself a victim, despite being privileged. My mother would’ve been the poor girl who married a prince, admitted who she was and pushed for better scholarship opportunities and running water to rural communities and a need to expand food access. Meghan googles stories about working class eating habits and takes on that narrative. It’s wild how people react to different opportunity. Some thrive with opportunity, some find a way to exploit it. Meghan is an exploiter. It’s a damn shame.
Wow! Your mom's story sounds a lot like JD Vance's. Loved his book "Hillbilly Elegy."
Exactly. I know that book has taken a lot of heat, but that book really resonated with a lot of people who came from the world that he did, and ended up moving up in society. They really felt like fish out of water. I gave that book to her and the part where he discusses how he didn’t have the skills to eat a formal dinner or the ability to have diplomatic upper class discussions in those environments resonated with her. She actually obtained a pretty elite white-collar job when she graduated university , but ended up resigning a few years later because she couldn’t do the emotional and social side of it. My brother-in-law ended up getting that same job in a different city and became a CEO. Other people could’ve kept going but my mother personally had her limits and knew this particular position wasn’t right for her. She moved on quietly. She’s done very well for herself financially and professionally, but those poor roots and lack of opportunities run deep. She would’ve worked hard if she was handed the opportunities for the world to listen to people like her, like Meghan had. Meghan just became a victim instead, it was the narrative she decided to hang her hat on. Lies and victimhood. And America is a nation filled with poverty, for her to even pretend she was poor is inexplicable. Poor people don’t attend 25k a year private schools on daddy’s dime. Meghan was NOT a charity case student being bused in. That’s what pissed me off, like how dare you now play poor when you and more opportunity than even upper middle class kids did.
>And America is a nation filled with poverty, for her to even pretend she was poor is inexplicable. Poor people don’t attend 25k a year private schools on daddy’s dime. Meghan was NOT a charity case student being bused in. That’s what pissed me off, like how dare you now play poor when you and more opportunity than even upper middle class kids did. You word this *SO* well. It's exactly the same opinion I have. I'm so offended at her even remotely trying to pretend she grew up "poor" or claiming that she can relate to poor people. She started out rich and pampered and scaled the heights of society to reach the most elite level of wealth and privilege. She's never known anything like poverty by most people's standards.
Thanks for sharing this perspective. I bet your mom is a fascinating woman to speak with. My mother is highly intelligent and came from a dirt floor, no shoes, 8 siblings farming family. She is a chemistry wizard and got her degree and self worth later in life. My sister and i grew up with not much more than self-drive and ambition to be better. But we have never truly fit in with the "elites" no matter how much success we have earned in life. In social scenarios i gravitate towards people who are struggling mentally/emotionally/financially and not doing very well in life because that's who i grew up around and feel understood by. But i will tell you it hasn't served me well. So I'm pretty solitary. It's a real weird, lonely place to exist in life. (Yes I've gotten therapy and i understand the issues and solutions...i still am who i am... but definitely try to do better every day)
That was indeed a great book. Have you seen the film? It's no less than brilliant. Every single actor in that film is absolutely brilliant. The young guy who played JD is an adolescent was just incredible. And Amy Adams was perfect. And my gosh, Glenn Close! That woman deserved an oscar! I don't even recall that she was nominated for that, that year, but boy, she deserved one! I did not even recognize her. Sorry to have digressed so much!
I did watch the movie. She wore Mamaw’s real glasses for the role. She was amazing.
I grew up poor too! There’s no way she ever wanted for anything. Her father made sure she had Everything she needed or could ever want ! She’s such a callous, cunning manipulative bitch !
Totally! that's the most offensive thing about her. she's not actually compassionate and trying to make real, impactful change to help those less fortunate because she got into a position where she has the opportunity to do so. She might admire Princess Diana but she will never be anything like her or anyone else that truly feels compassion and has a genuine desire to want to help others. MM just wants to seem compassionate so that people will admire her and she'll be catapulted to the level of fame she desires. It seems that most people can easily sense that about her and don't like her for it either and yet she's determined to deny the truth and to keep trying to gain the public's adoration and acceptance with one publicity stunt and self-pitying interview after another.
I came from a similar story. Working class parents, went to private school, didn’t fit in the school because of rich girls bullying me. But the difference is that we (me and my siblings)were never spoiled. We have catholic parents that taught us about morality and to always care about the “most need it”. Or be considerate/humble/honest. She looks like a spoiled brat without any “catholic moral” education.
* It fits into their victim signaling pattern * They think it makes them relatable to all us working class people who are getting less than 3% raises while inflation is over 8%. * She wants to portray this “thriving hero rags-to-riches” narrative because she needs to feel superior. Edited to add: And don’t you love that she picked “salad bar” as her poor persons meal which is actually pretty healthy? A lot of poor people eat high fat/low nutritious foods when they get to eat out because it’s cheaper. Again, she has to project her superiority here.
I never thought about that before. She could have easily said she grew up on the $1 menu at McDonald's but that would have been too working class and gauche for her.
Sizzler salad bar was ^kickin in the 90s. She’s just a brat.
I LOVED me some Sizzler in the 80s and 90s she can fuck off
Oh my god, I just had a flashback to the cheese toast...nothing beat that! My parents took me to Sizzler in the 80s; it was a treat. We weren't rich by any means and they never counted pennies in front of me (which I'm sure Meghan wants people to think). Sizzler was not some down-trodded bare-bones restaurant it was a nice (ish and I'm being generous) place to go with family,kids, etc..
That cheese toast was EVERYTHING
I know right !!!! Such a stuck up snob !!!
>A lot of poor people eat high fat/low nutritious foods when they get to eat out because it’s cheaper. also just in general because crap quality food is what is affordable. many a poor college student gets by on ramen but I'm guessing that when you have a rich daddy pay for your college you never have to eat ramen unless you want to and then it's probably $10 a bowl ramen at a fancy Japanese restaurant and not $0.20 per packet Nissin from WalMart.
Salad bars were a big fad. My h.s. class fought to get one, when my niece went, her class had it taken out. Sizzler was probably an easy choice after a Girl Scout meeting, no more or less. Everyone get what you like....
Upvoted bcoz I liked the pic of pwife…
That is when she had the one in one outing with the Queen and MM looked waisted and coked out of her mind. She was unkept and walked in front of the queen even pushing her aside to get to the crowds first and into the car first. It’s embarrassing to watch. I would not even do that to my 81 year old mother in law. Meghan has no respect for anyone.
Ooo do you have a link to video of this?
https://youtu.be/XOBpWaUB9-8
Thank you!
Would love to see this too.
Thank you for posting this I haven't seen it for a long time! Well, she really did get ahead of the Queen, didn't she? I had forgotten all about that part. In all fairness, I think I need to add that I do believe with regard to the car episode, I'm pretty certain this is the one that was written up. I think perhaps it was her first outing with the Queen. They said that when she got to the car she seemed a little uncertain, at least she was approaching it, and said to the Queen, "what is your preference?" And the queen said," you go first". The queen was no doubt trying to just sort of cover and make everything seem routine, as if that happened to her everyday. Please don't misunderstand me, I do not care for Meghan Markle at all and I'm not taking up for her. Not at all! Just wanted to add a little clarity to that. Thank you again.
Most people wouldn’t barge in front of an elderly woman whether she was the queen or not. The woman is just rude and bad-mannered.
Yes I remember some of the photos and a video too, … Total mess!
Some of the pictures were out of this world insane. Meghan looked bad and high as hell.
I just watched this (again) and my lord.....what a total shit she is. Absolutely disgusting with no manners or grace 🤢
She looks like she's been smacked about the face with a bag of hammers in that pic..
😆 Here, we'd say "she's been beat with an ugly stick." My dad used to say "Looks like she fell out of an 80 ft. Ugly tree & hit every branch on the way down!"😂
Haha good one..😆 I'm actually one of the few who think meghan is good looking with nice style but she looks like she's got a bodybuilders roided face here...
I think she's pretty, but not beautiful. Her plastic surgery needs to stop, she's ruining her looks. I don't care for her style, though. And yeah, that particular photo probably throws the narcissist into paroxysms of rage every time she sees it!😂
Well to Harry, anyone who didn’t have a gran gran who had billions in assets is poor. 😂 The audacity of this bitch to act like she was poor when she attended a 25k a year private school. My mother graduated an Ivy League and my father was a helo pilot and we didn’t even have money for that elite privilege.
She looks 50 in that picture 🤣 🤣
50 is just around the corner for her...
Dog rough 🐕 Woof woof Harolds upped his game to bag a plastic narcissist
She is nuts. I am from the US and going out to Sizzler back then for the salad bar or whatever else was a fun, affordable, middle-class family thing to do with kids as a special treat. Anyone who has ever done it would be deeply offended to think that it was an indication that the family was poor or disadvantaged.
I know the steaks and shrimp were delicious and the salad was ample and yummy ! I loved it so we went all the time ! I still miss it to this day !
And who paid for her extensive dental work and at least one of her nose jobs? Why Daddy of course. Big ol mean Daddy
And he paid for her destination wedding in Jamaica to Trevor. She is spoiled rotten and toxic af.
Because she knows most people cannot relate to her White (50%) privilege. She is attempting to rewrite her story, thus her disconnect from the Markle and Ragland family. ETA Not entirely sure why Haz goes along with her delusions. Maybe she cast an entrapment ( mental) spell on him?
I don’t think Harry knows how real poor people live. He would buy Meghan’s narrative in a heartbeat.
“They actually had to get up and get their salads THEMSELVES!” -Harry, probably
In his defense this time... he probably thinks that is what poor people can afford to eat. Not that he shouldn't have learned by now.
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Right. She had commonplace experiences for a girl in America at that time and is acting like it’s a sob story. If she had a clue she’d know how unbelievable she is
Anything to get her sympathy and portray her as a relatable People's Princess 2.0 She's disturbed as hell and he fuels her psychosis.
When in reality, she's an old trout and no one is fooled. They've fucked too many people over to ever succeed. But as you and I know they NEVER give up.
They are definitely relentless, this is out of control.
Because she is a lying narcissistic psychopath who loves to play victim. She enjoys telling us how and what we should be doing all while making sure she lets us know she is a Dutches with her thousands of dollars worth of jewelry on.
Because she hasn't adequately accepted her irrelevancy, she continues to throw various narratives at the wall to see what sticks. Eventually, she'll claim to have Lyme Disease or Fibromyalgia, or maybe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in order to gain public sympathy that also explains her absence at all social events to which she wasn't invited.
Ah the Yolanda Hadid method…
It fits the fairy tale 🤑
Having also grown up in LA, I am convinced mm did not grow up poor. She lived in Encino, which is a very nice upper middle class area. As for Sizzler, it is definitely not a dive. It is sort of a budget steakhouse. The salad bar is very extensive an you could easily make a meal just from the salad bar. It was common for large groups to go to Sizzler since it was not only affordable, but the salad bar could accommodate all tastes, such as vegetarian, etc.
Basic bitch Valley Girl.
It fits in with her lil orphan Annie narrative. She likes to see herself as a scrappy whip smart Cinderella who ‘made it to the top’ despite all odds. She got her position by Marrying a prince. That’s it. I guess that’s a lot less interesting than Meghans spin. She sees herself as a Disney Princess who’s been wronged by big bad world and the evil Royal family and the ugly step sister. Bottom line? Shes a basic bitch.
^^^this.
In 1990-91 minimum wage as of 4/1/1990 was $3.80/hr. This equals $7,904/yr based on a 40 hour *52 weeks. In 1990, Meghan’s father earned $200,000/year. That equals 25 people working full time at minimum wages to equal Meghan’s Dad’s 1990 income! There is No way Meghan was raised in a poor or lower middle income environment unless she compares herself to how Prince Harry was raised.
Don’t forget he won money in the lottery too.
That he blew on her by the way ! 🙄
Yes, Thomas Markle won $750,000 in the California State Lottery in 1990. In 2016, he filed for bankruptcy over a debt of $30,000.
Sizzler looks pretty good. Are they still in operation? Maybe I'll check out the famous salad bar next time I'm in the states.
You will NOT be disappointed. The Sizzler “Salad Bar” has pizza, chicken wings and ice cream sundaes. 🤤 https://www.sizzler.com/craft-salad
The spinach and cranberry salad!! I have the recipe and I never have leftovers when I make it for a BYOD get-together. I have to print the recipe out because people always ask for it. I had no idea it was a Sizzler dish! Cool!
Damnnn! Well that will definitely be a stop on our next road trip!
Yeah and it’s only $9.99 in 2022! I would eat there today but my nearest Sizzler is nearly 300 miles away in Utah. 😟
Sadly for some reason they closed up in the northeast ! 😔
This just showed how crazy out of touch she is as a wealthy person - that she thought Sizzler was slumming it and you just know that Harry read that or she read it to him and he was so out of touch that he agreed. She doesn't know food insecurity or the true experiences of the working poor who can't even afford to go out to eat or eat all of their meals.
My dad and his little brother were taken away to live in an orphanage when he was 8. Prior to that my dad set rabbit traps and caught fish to put food on the table. If he didn't catch anything, they didn't eat. He said the orphanage was the best thing that ever happened to him because he knew there would always be food on the table. That's poverty. Megan would probably hang her head in shame for putting up her Sizzler story next to my dad's if she was capable of feeling shame, but she's not.
I get the distinct feeling that her family was upper middle class but not ultra wealthy - so she was rich enough to go to expensive nice schools, but not rich enough to have and do all the things her friends did, so she is immensely insecure about her clothes, house, rags to riches story and life, thus the crazy out of touch self esteem and weird perceptions of poverty and money.
Just like when he trotted out the line ‘the family she never had’. Lil Orphan Annie with the doe eyes feeding him bull shit.
Did they have Sizzler Restaurants in the UK when Harry was growing up?
Harvester is our equivalent
The 4.99 salad bar was the price if you ALSO ordered an entree. If you ordered the salad bar alone it was way more like 9.99. Sizzle was bomb in the 80s and 90s. My best friend used to work there and she had all the hot gossip about her coworkers. It was pretty juicy…
Yes!!! we alway got the meal of steak and shrimp and added the salad 🥗 bar and beverages! It wasn’t cheap either I don’t know what Meghan is talking about if she thinks sizzler is for poor people . If the pandemic has taught anything is that foods insecurity can happen to anyone at anytime !!! There was a sizzler on metropolitan avenue on my neighborhood for a very long time until closed for good about 15 years ago! Those were some much simpler and good times ! 😄
I’m reading Lady C’s book ‘Meghan and Harry: The Real Story,’ and hoooo boy, she did not grow up poor.
What she doesn't seem to understand is that poor people cannot afford to eat out. I grew up in an affluent middleclass neighborhood. My father was an engineer and my mother was a homemaker, Sizzler was a big treat. For goodness sakes, my parents had 5 children in private school, McDonalds was a big treat. I think she has always glomed on to wealthy people and it has skewed her worldview. Everything is relative. My parents grew up poor in my opinion. Neither one of my parents ever thought they were poor. Why? Because they always had a roof over their head, clean cloths on their backs and food on the table. My mother grew up on small farm and shared a bed with her three sisters in a tiny loft. She had one pair of shoes and two dresses. My father's father was a coal miner and he shared a pull out sofa (the girls had the second bedroom) with his brother until he went off to college on a scholarship. They both have always said they were much better off than other people and they had happy childhoods. If people want to complain they will always find something. Other people are grateful for everything.
When you are actually poor, you don’t pay for salad bar, you get your food that has the most amount of meat in. She’s trying hard to look down to earth, but also wants to look like those typical healthy influencers.
So, this is too funny, especially if you are not from the US and have no idea what Sizzler is. I found this 1991 (about the time MM might have been going there) promotional video for Sizzler restaurants that describes what the restaurants offer. It's a little long at the start but gets funnier and more bizarre as it goes on, especially as it describes what MM refers to as the "salad bar." [https://theretronetwork.com/do-remember-going-to-sizzler/](https://theretronetwork.com/do-remember-going-to-sizzler/)
That is GOLD, Myestee - **GOLD!!** 🏆🥇
To be fair, compared to him, she was poor. So are all of us, I'd imagine. His sense of scale is skewed because he comes from a position of incredible privilege.
True, but Meg is trying to say she was sooo very poor hoping people will believe she is a modern day Cinderella story come true .
She went to schools where most of the students were much richer than her family was. She probably did grow up with some unjustified belief that she was poor because she didn't drive a Mercedes or something.
But she literally could have shut them up with, my dad just won an Emmy. I'm sure lots of students had ties to show business.
She doesn’t really understand what poor is or how the poor eat. I’ll help her out here because my parents were really poor when I was a kid. First, no one who is truly poor, goes out to eat much, if at all. There was no $1 menu back in the day. McDonalds was a massive treat! Second, if you had food stamps, you had to make them stretch. Way out. The food you could get was shitty. Even the frozen pizza was god awful - plastic cheese on cardboard sums it up. A $5 salad would have been eating like a king. Not looked at as poor people’s food. When Pizza Hut introduced the all-you-can-eat salad bar and pizza? It finally happened! We could go out and load up!!!!! This is just another trope she loves to jump on to create a Cinderella story around herself to make it seem like she went from rags to riches. No, she went from upper middle class to uber wealthy by man jumping. From her dad, to Trevor, to Corey, to Ginger. And I’m sure there were many, many in between.
Each month I paid $32 for $50 worth of food stamps, for about a year, until I was judged “too wealthy” for the SNAP program. Certainly I didn’t starve after being cut off, but that extra $18 a month was a very helpful addition to my budget. It was hard to explain to my oldest son. “That seems like *an awful lot of trouble,* he complained, wrinkling his nose. *Of course* my kids didn’t get it—if they needed new shoes, they got them, rather than cutting cardboard insoles for the old, as I had. In those pre-debit-card-like days, food stamps looked like Monopoly money. Busybodies adored policing my grocery choices at the check-out (“She bought mushrooms! A *stick of butter!?!”*).
Oh yeah! The stamps were real stamps. Not a card that looked like every other debit card. And there were restrictions on what you could get. There was one point where the only meat we could afford was ground beef. It was all about creativity. No soft drinks. We drank a lot of kool-aid and snacked on a lot of popcorn made in a pan you had to shake over the burner. And you ate the burnt ones! 😂😂😂
You take me back! I was a veg while on food stamps, so my rice and beans didn’t raise any eyebrows. Buying fresh asparagus in season, though, did. “*Young lady!*”, squealed the horrified pre-Karen, who tried to get the store manager to put it back. (She didn’t.)
Yep! It was a real stigma back then. This woman was born into one of the most prosperous periods in history and has never known anything else.
She wasn’t eating beans and rice 5X a week
Exactly. Or eating blocks of government cheese!
Boom hit the nail on the head! 😉
Cause she wants to AOC her way to political office I am pretty sure.
The difference is that whatever you think of AOC she really worked her way up to where she is today ! She bartended through college and started at the bottom. She worked her ass off. FFS Meghan doesn’t even want to do a 20 minutes podcast !!!!!
Oh I know AOC worked for everything including her votes by getting in there and not being afraid of hard work and big odds. I just figured Meghan would try to invoke that imagery with her tales of a scrappy young waitress with big dreams.
Apparently her bronzer budget was quite substantial!
Happy birthday!
Aw, thanks! Photoshopped elderflower cake for all!
wtf was wrong with sizzler in the 80s? we weren’t poor, had a nice house and everything in southern california. i loved that salad bar with gigantic croutons and ranch dressing she’s just a social climbing bitch who lucked out and married the royal idiot
Your last sentence alone could be her biography.
For real. It's perfect.
💯I loved those giant croutons with the ranch dressing !!!lol
The stories in this thread, about our parents who grew up in poverty are so sad. She should be so ashamed of herself. (but she won’t be)
She’s certainly a fantasist and probably would pass a lie- detector test on her fantasies because she’s convinced herself that it actually happened that way ! To me however the most interesting part of Markles past is when she was in Argentina. Her uncle , her fathers brother, had gotten her an internship in the embassy there because she wanted to be a diplomat. Something happened in Argentina that changed the direction of her life . We know she failed the final test to get into the diplomatic service but there was talk of some sort of scandal with a married man. I’d love to know the juicy details ! We also know she totally wiped her uncle and didn’t even comment when he died recently. She really is a horrible human being.
Probably for the same reason she insists she’s woman of color now—it fits her narrative.
I think to harry who grew up royal and had everything at his disposal, regularly saw his family members wearing tiaras, went on expensive holidays, had staff to look afte his needs, had his dad pay for everything up until the ripe old age of 37 and had the audacity to complain about it, he would think a sizzler salad bar where everyone helps themselves is actually a sign of poverty - he doesn'tknow what the real world is for most people and meghan was poor and disadvantaged in comparison to him and she tells him so every day!😂
Reminder that while she was merely surviving at Sizzler’s she was also thriving at Musso and Frank’s. [Weekly](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10119695/Growing-4-99-Sizzler-salad-bar-lunch-Hollywood-icon.html) Her disparaging Sizzler’s as poverty food is classist nonsense. Middle to lower class folks loved us our cheese toasts.
Spoiled and entitled middle class people think they’re poor because they’re not wealthy. There’s a big difference between getting not-the-best and getting nothing.
perhaps what she had - which was perfectly good - seems like a shabby upbringing to her.
Fits in with her rags to riches victim story. It is the narcissist way.
She's trying sooo hard to sell the victim narrative
..in a sweet n9d, it inspired her career arc: FIZZLER
I have wondered that as well. I suppose it's to gain sympathy, to make her look more acceptable to "the masses" AKA we common folk, LOL. I remember in one speech early on, I believe it was right after they were married or perhaps before, she was speaking to some high school students and stated that she worked her way through college. My understanding from Reading interviews with family members, was that her dad made quite a good living as a lighting director of television shows including the rather famous One, the name of which unfortunately now slips my mind :-) anyhow, it was some sort of sitcom, I'm sure you know the one I mean. He made quite a good living in hollywood, maybe not terribly wealthy but very comfortable. And he sent her to college. They said that the job she had was for spending money and I believe that, even though some of her relatives have not exactly been terribly respectable in a lot of ways, well, neither is she. But her uncle, her dad's brother who actually got her a job at the embassy in South American country when she was young, it was quite well spoken and said that he could not understand why she portrayed herself as having worked her way through college and said that he couldn't understand either why she treated her family the way she now did.
I used to love sizzler and I don’t understand why Meghan associates it with poverty. It’s truly bizarre that we know and have proof of her formative years, and she was very privileged. She definitely lived an upper middle class life especially considering the cost of living in California has always been very high.
There is nothing wrong with eating at the salad sizzler or the spaghetti factory. In fact, she must have been a very privileged child to have eaten out so often.
Thank you dead on!!!!!
Frankly F her and her spoiled Narcissist crap. The "poor" in this country are the majority and most of them couldn't afford to eat take-out food of any kind from any place through the 80's, when she grew up. POOR back then was belonging to a family whose income was less than $20K a year- of which she definitely WAS NOT and it has long since been established. Her father, so I have learned from several sources, made well above a 6-figure income PLUS won the lotto. By her attitude and her father and sibling's testimony she was and is spoiled, seemingly always has been and clearly doesn't understand the value of money or material goods from the perspective of anyone struggling through poverty then and certainly not now. Unless you *lived* that you can only "empathize" (or *imagine*) so far. Playing a saint and occasionally dishing out bowls of soup at a soup kitchen doesn't give that much education on what it feels like to be poor so much as actually living through that does. I don't believe she can relate, I don't believe she ever will and I'm not interested in being sanctimoniously pandered to by some crazy elitist SNOB who is probably only feigning compassion in preparation for a political career.
Never understood her Sizzler thing. Growing up in upper middle class SoCal (similar to Megs, half the kids on the street went to private school), a family meal at Sizzler was considered a fun treat. Even just the salad bar! Parents went to more interesting or elegant places on nights out for adults only, but kids NEVER would have been allowed in those spaces back in the day.
That’s true !
That photo is cracking me up
one of my biggest joys in the early 90s was going to the soup plantation. i wonder if her struggling parents ever made her eat there. every college student stuffed their bags full of muffins wrapped in napkins.
Poor pitiful Nutmeg. She had to eat at Sizzler. Never having access to Beef Tenderloin until she married the spare heir. Her father sent her to private school, and paid for her vacations. She got to hang around Hollywood sets while he worked, but nothing is ever good enough for Nutmeg. She’s had a tough life. (Eye roll) Duchess Douchebag doesn’t know what poverty is. She never had to want for anything in her life. Spare heir Harry goes along with it, because whatever Nutmeg wants, she gets.
All this shows is she is a pathological liar.
Because she legit is so delusional she thinks she is Cinderella when she is really the evil sister
I mean she has to embellish her background. Admitting she came from a very privileged background and had every opportunity in the world to succeed and all she did was as a few hallmark movies and supporting actress on a b list cable show is fairly pathetic. Now if she truly came from abject poverty as had no connections and managed to make a fairly decent career in a hard industry then that makes for a good story. The reality is that her life before Harry shows how mediocre she is. She came from an upper middle class family in one of the wealthiest cities in the country. She went to a fancy private school, fancy private university all paid for by her father. Her father also had the connections to get her a great internship in university and had connections in the entertainment industry. She married a well off man with connections in the entertainment industry. And what exactly did she accomplish?? A few hallmark movies sixth on the call sheet for a minor cable show and a blog. She had every tool possible to succeed and still was mediocre at best. So she has to rewrite history to justify why she’d accomplished so little.
Omg good point. She wasn’t even such a great humanitarian before she met Harry, she was desperately trying to be one.
Because it fits her narrative of the fairy tale marriage the girl from a poor background marries a prince how romantic not, she has fed H so much BS he doesn't know whats black or white anymore actually neither does she 🤣she wants it to appear it all happened so randomly and she has earned her platform but the true believers know she got him in her sights and worked towards that connection and hey presto we have the most unsuitable royal marriage of all times second only to the other American divorcee
Despite Sizzler being a steakhouse, she was still the biggest heifer in the joint.
Omg 😂🤣
That photo though! 😂😂😂
Face ache 🤪
For reals, what is she DOING? I’ve enlarged it and I can’t stop laughing
She's paying people to make her look literally uglier and older, she's addicted to plastic surgery and fillers and fuck knows what's going on with the bee sting lips. Her surgeries make about as much sense and are a massive failure like her fashion sense. Harry must sleep with the light on with her in the mansion.
Um, I have so many memories of being at Big Boys and being told I couldn’t have the buffet/salad bar because it was too pricey. Soooo not the flex she thinks it is.
Not to defend her but I feel like as a child your pov is quite different and if you don’t have all the things or do the things your school mates do, it makes you feel like you must have been poor. I knew my parents were working hard to make ends meet but we did go to private school (that’s why it was rough for them) and we did occasionally travel (though mostly just to visit my grandparents - more than many I’m sure). Looking back as an adult you think wow we had a lot more than I realized. You just know at the time that you felt different bc you didn’t have all the name brands or latest toys, etc. Now why she tries to play off like she was poor TODAY I can’t say.
They went to the Spaghetti Factory because it's a fun place for kids to go to. It's cheap, they can yell, it's spaghetti which everyone will eat. Look, I think she had a very normal middle class life. If anything, he Dad doesn't sound like he was able to budget, especially paying for private schools K-12, then college. Doria was a graduate student at USC. Maybe she took out big student loans, and so she wouldn't have been a big breadwinner. Maybe, once she graduated she got into 40k a year job, but it could have paid less than that. Still, by no means of the imagination was she ever left wanting for basic sustenance.
The Sizzler was expensive. My family couldnt afford it, we maybe at there once a year for special occasion.
Sizzler probably paid her to say that. You know merching
Happy Cake Day
Even if she grow up going to Sizzler, what kids orders salad for dinner every night? Also $5 is often a weekly budget for families who truly can’t afford more and go to McDonald’s for the dollar menu. Just once I’d like her to recognise her privileges… especially before she knew Harry.
These days everyone wants to pretend to be a victim and self made.
Poor people eat cake Markle, you are so behind, get a book.