Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex pictured in March 2024Meghan Markle has opened up about having postpartum preeclampsia – a medical condition linked to high blood pressure which impacts some mothers after giving birth.Speaking on her new podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, the former Suits star and her friend, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, opened up about how they both experienced the condition after giving birth, which Meghan said was “so rare and so scary”.Whitney has two sons who are of a similar age to Meghan and Harry’s children, Archie, five, and Lili, three.Meghan said of the period after giving birth, when she was also privately dealing with the health condition: “You’re still trying to juggle all of these things and the world doesn’t know what’s happening – and in the quiet you’re still trying to show up for people and in the quiet you’re still trying to show up, mostly for your children.“But those things are huge medical scares.”Whitney added: “I mean, life or death truly. It’s really scary.”What is postpartum preeclampsia?Postpartum preeclampsia is a serious disease related to high blood pressure, according to
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