“Real Housewives of Potomac” alum Candiace Dillard is defending Meghan Markle against “misogynoir” attacks.
In honor of daughter Princess Lilibet’s 4th birthday on Wednesday, the Duchess of Sussex, 43, posted a throwback video on Instagram that showed her and her husband, Prince Harry, dancing in the delivery room to the viral “Baby Momma Dance Song.”
Markle, who was about to give birth, and the Duke of Sussex, 40, both shook, clapped and dropped it low as they awaited the arrival of their second child. (They are also parents to Prince Archie, 6.)
Though some fans praised the adorable moment, many trolls criticized the “fake and cringe” clip, begging the couple to “make it stop.”
“Everything they do to be ‘relatable’ is weirdly not relatable,” one dissenter argued. “It’s bizarre how they never miss.”
Dillard, who welcomed her and her husband Chris Bassett’s first child together, son Jett, in October 2024, took to X to school one user who suggested Markle was not actually pregnant in the video.
“No woman 9 months pregnant moves that way,” the naysayer wrote. “And that belly is lumpy and Meg moves it around like a sack of jelly beans. Where is the uncomfortable mom-to-be? Because this woman has no clue what it feels like to be in labor or even induced. Induced moms are nervous about the pain!”
Reposting the negative message, Dillard, 38, explained, “Actually, at 9 months pregnant, I was leg pressing three times my weight, doing pull ups twice my weight and walking several miles on a treadmill so stfu and just say you hate that a Black woman married a white prince.”
The former Bravolebrity then took to Instagram to share a video of herself in her own delivery room, sitting on a birthing ball.
“I wasn’t going to say anything. But then I remembered I have receipts,” she began the accompanying caption.
“This is my belly — lumpy, uneven, stretched and swollen — hooked up to a fetal monitor under a loose birth gown. No designer tailoring. No soft lighting. No choreographed PR moment. Just a real body doing miraculous work.”
Dillard then turned her sights to netizens who are “twisting” themselves “into knots to disprove the humanity of a Black woman’s motherhood — suggesting [Markle’s] stomach was ‘towels,’ her child an illusion, her joy a lie.”
The singer lamented, “I’m reminded that misogynoir has no expiration date.” (Misogynoir refers to the combined force of racism and misogyny directed toward black women.)
She blasted the “obsession with policing how we show up in the world…how we carry our babies, how we carry our joy, how we carry ourselves,” adding that it “isn’t about truth” but rather “control.”
“Stand down. She had a baby. And some of y’all need to sit with why that threatens you so much,” Dillard concluded her PSA, including the hashtags, “#StandWithMeghan #BlackMothersDeserveGrace #MisogynoirIsLoud.”
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