Meghan Markle is reportedly the woman behind the anonymous gossip blog The Working Actress. Prior to meeting Prince Harry, Meghan allegedly ran the site that detailed the highs and lows of someone trying to make it big in Hollywood.
According to Finding Freedom authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, The Working Actress was one of two blogs Meghan Markle maintained while she was charting her star as a TV actress. She also had The Tig, the lifestyle website that became more popular when she started dating Prince Harry.
Scobie and Durand wrote in the biography that Meghan always liked writing in school and wanted to be journalist. She used the blogs to "to channel her creativity and frustration" about life.
The Finding Freedom authors said that The Working Actress was "one of the industry's worst-kept secrets." While Meghan didn't publicly acknowledge that she wrote the entries, it was apparently easy to deduce her identity from her "clever advice" and honest anecdotes.
Daily Mail speculated about The Working Actress in 2018. Meghan apparently wrote about her auditions and work experiences, while discussing "tyrannical directors," "bitchy rivals" and "hard-driving producers." She wrote this blog from 2010 to 2012 and then shifted to the lifestyle blog.
The Working Actress had a raw and candid tone while The Tig was more optimistic and polished. The latter also amassed such a following on the internet that Meghan had started thinking about developing the site into a food-centric lifestyle book or a travel series. However, she ended up dating a prince.
Meghan shut down The Tig as her relationship with Prince Harry progressed to an engagement. However, she did get to do the food book for the charity Hubb Community Kitchen, whose members were former residents of Grenfell Tower. This cookbook was one of her very first projects as a royal.
Meghan Markle was also able to give her journalistic skills another shot when she worked alongside Edward Enninful, the editor of British Vogue. The Duchess of Sussex guest-edited the magazines's September 2019 issue and broke the record as the fastest-selling issue in over 100 years.
Enninful praised the royal for her "editor's eye." The two collaborated for the special issue for nine months while Meghan was pregnant with her first child, Archie Harrison.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry said that the royals never sat down for an actual interview with the authors of Finding Freedom. The biography contains their assessment of the couple's royal life based upon their work as royal correspondents.
