“Actual Housewives of Potomac” alum Candiace Dillard is defending Meghan Markle towards “misogynoir” assaults.
In honor of daughter Princess Lilibet’s 4th birthday on Wednesday, the Duchess of Sussex, 43, posted a throwback video on Instagram that confirmed her and her husband, Prince Harry, dancing within the supply room to the viral “Child Momma Dance Track.”
Markle, who was about to offer beginning, and the Duke of Sussex, 40, each shook, clapped and dropped it low as they awaited the arrival of their second youngster. (They’re additionally dad and mom to Prince Archie, 6.)
Although some followers praised the lovely second, many trolls criticized the “faux and cringe” clip, begging the couple to “make it cease.”
“All the things they do to be ‘relatable’ is weirdly not relatable,” one dissenter argued. “It’s weird how they by no means miss.”
Dillard, who welcomed her and her husband Chris Bassett’s first youngster collectively, son Jett, in October 2024, took to X to high school one person who instructed Markle was not truly pregnant within the video.
“No lady 9 months pregnant strikes that approach,” the naysayer wrote. “And that stomach is lumpy and Meg strikes it round like a sack of jelly beans. The place is the uncomfortable mom-to-be? As a result of this lady has no clue what it feels wish to be in labor and even induced. Induced mothers are nervous concerning the ache!”
Reposting the adverse message, Dillard, 38, defined, “Really, at 9 months pregnant, I used to be leg urgent thrice my weight, doing pull ups twice my weight and strolling a number of miles on a treadmill so stfu and simply say you hate {that a} Black lady married a white prince.”
The previous Bravolebrity then took to Instagram to share a video of herself in her personal supply room, sitting on a birthing ball.
“I wasn’t going to say something. However then I remembered I’ve receipts,” she started the accompanying caption.
“That is my stomach — lumpy, uneven, stretched and swollen — hooked as much as a fetal monitor below a free beginning robe. No designer tailoring. No gentle lighting. No choreographed PR second. Only a actual physique doing miraculous work.”
Dillard then turned her sights to netizens who’re “twisting” themselves “into knots to disprove the humanity of a Black lady’s motherhood — suggesting [Markle’s] abdomen was ‘towels,’ her youngster an phantasm, her pleasure a lie.”
The singer lamented, “I’m reminded that misogynoir has no expiration date.” (Misogynoir refers back to the mixed power of racism and misogyny directed towards black ladies.)
She blasted the “obsession with policing how we present up on this planet…how we feature our infants, how we feature our pleasure, how we feature ourselves,” including that it “isn’t about reality” however reasonably “management.”
“Stand down. She had a child. And a few of y’all want to sit down with why that threatens you a lot,” Dillard concluded her PSA, together with the hashtags, “#StandWithMeghan #BlackMothersDeserveGrace #MisogynoirIsLoud.”
