Meghan Markle‘s new podcast dropped right this moment (April 8), and we discovered a scary medical element that she’d not beforehand shared earlier than.

On the episode of “Confessions of a Feminine Founder,” the Duchess of Sussex welcomed Bumble creator Whitney Wolfe Herd as her very first visitor.

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Meghan candidly shared, “We each had very comparable experiences – although we didn’t know one another on the time – with postpartum, and we each had preeclampsia. Postpartum preeclampsia. It’s so uncommon and so scary.”

The Mayo Clinic shares that it’s a “uncommon situation that happens when you could have hypertension and extra protein in your urine quickly after childbirth…Left untreated, postpartum preeclampsia could cause seizures and different severe problems.”

Meghan then shared how this impacted her life after giving delivery.

“And also you’re nonetheless making an attempt to juggle all of this stuff, and the world doesn’t know what’s taking place quietly. And within the quiet, you’re nonetheless making an attempt to indicate up for folks – principally on your kids — however these issues are large medical scares,” she mentioned, to which Whitney added, “I imply life or dying, really.”

Meghan and her husband Prince Harry share son Archie, 5, and daughter Lilibet, 3.

The Duchess has been open about medical and psychological well being points in her previous. She shared she suffered from suicidal ideas whereas dwelling within the UK, and claimed the Palace wouldn’t let her search assist.