This week, in an episode also featuring actor and activist Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, writer Candace Bushnell discussed the versatility of women and shared her experience of creating valuable female roles and the stigmas around female sexuality.

When Meghan asked Bushnell how growing up as a feminist influenced the type of world she wanted to write about, the Sex And The City author spoke about starting her writing career at the age of 19 and how her work was moulded by her own acting experience.

“The reality is that most parts for women are written by men,” she told the duchess. “I could not find a part that was a whole woman.”

Bushnell then went on to recall an early audition experience that had a major impact on her.

“I remember I went on an audition for a TV commercial, and I got into a line, and there was a long line of beautiful women. It was moving really quickly. I was like, ‘Gosh, what’s going on?’ And one of the women said, ‘Well, this is one of those auditions where they eliminate you if your eyelashes are too short.’ I had an epiphany, and I said, ‘I’m giving myself permission to never do this again.’ And I vowed that someday I would write parts for women that were real women as opposed to what some man thought they should be.”

Meghan Markle dissects the complexities of female sexuality with Candace Bushnell in the penultimate episode of her podcast series