For some reason, the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle thought that sharing a video of herself pregnant, dancing and twerking in the hospital’s delivery room, was an interesting way of celebrating her daughter Lilibeth’s fourth birthday.
Some say that she and her husband, Prince Harry, were responding to a hurtful online ‘conspiracy theory’ suggesting that both Meghan’s pregnancies were faked.
Little did they know that this move was about to blow in their faces, as the video has fueled the cruel (but relentless) rumors that Meghan was never actually pregnant.
The Telegraph reported:
“According to these claims, she wore a ‘Moonbump’ – a brand of prosthetic baby bump – for photo opportunities, and hired a surrogate to carry her two children, now aged six and four, who are sixth and seventh in line to the throne respectively.”
The Telegraph report is careful to brand these theories as ‘both baseless and bonkers’, and ‘outlandish’.
“Conspiracy theorists have also taken issue with her weight in the clip, suggesting that although her bump is large, the rest of her seems too slim to be pregnant. Meghan recently revealed on her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, that she ‘gained 65lb’ (around four stone) in both her pregnancies. It doesn’t look like it from the video, say the trolls. But Meghan wouldn’t be the first pregnant woman whose weight gain appeared confined to her bump.”
The report also notes that women going through overdue pregnancies are known to have behaviors ‘a little out of character’.
But these conspiracy theories have racked up millions upon millions of views, after the pregnant twerking video.
“’Generally, the more you try and refute a conspiracy theory, the more you fuel the idea that there’s something to it’, explains Sander van der Linden, prof of social psychology at the University of Cambridge. ‘It legitimizes it – why would you respond unless it’s something credible? There are some exceptions, where people can successfully dismiss conspiracy theories with humor and sarcasm, which is maybe what [Meghan] was attempting to do here’.
‘In an age where all videos are suspect in terms of being AI-manipulated, it creates an extra cloud of confusion’, van der Linden says. ‘It provides lots of material for people to cling onto, saying, ´Look, she’s wearing a prosthetic bump´, or suggesting videos are deepfakes’.”
The wild theories first emerged in 2019 suggesting that she was wearing an inflatable belly during their first son Archie’s pregnancy.
“When they did have a photoshoot at Windsor two days after Archie’s birth, some went so far as to claim the newborn shots were faked using a hyper-realistic doll, and that Kensington Palace posted a hastily deleted tweet announcing he was born via surrogate. Meghan later revealed that this pregnancy was marked by mental health struggles, making the cruel rumors an especially bitter pill to swallow.”
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