From insecure teen to royal TV star

Before the royal titles, world headlines, and millions of fans, she was just a little girl warming up microwave dinners and wondering where exactly she fit in.

Born to a Black mother and a white father in Los Angeles, this girl didn’t grow up feeling like a Hollywood story in the making. In fact, she often felt like she didn’t belong anywhere — not in school cliques, not in beauty standards, not even in strangers’ assumptions about her own family.

As a child, Meghan Markle described herself as a “latchkey kid,” coming home to an empty house while her parents worked long hours.

However, there seems to be some disagreement about what Meghan’s childhood was really like. Her father has challenged his daughter’s account, saying her memories — especially about how she ate as a child — don’t match his own version of events.