![]() And then where does that perspective come from? I don't feel at all I got treated, and I didn't feel like a bimbo. And the fact that she's beautiful, yeah, that's why you got the job! Yeah, you're smart. "If they were looking for women's rights activists, would have gotten the job. "But again, they hired us because of our looks," she told Newsweek. Jacobs, 42, who has worked as a photographer for more than 15 years, did share the same recollection of the models having their bras regularly stuffed on the Los Angeles set before shows, as well as being handed spray tan vouchers. The image above shows briefcase models from "Deal or No Deal," which aired between 20. It was solely about beauty and not necessarily about brains." We were even given spray-tan vouchers each week because there was a very cookie-cutter idea, of precisely what we should look like. "And there were different stations for having your lashes put on, or your extensions put in, or the padding in your bra. I mean, you have to imagine just to paint the picture for you that before the tapings of the show, all the girls, we would line up. "Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite. Embassy in Argentina, Buenos Aires, and being in the motorcade with the secretary of treasury at the time and being valued specifically for my brain. I never felt disrespected by it."Įlsewhere in her podcast, Meghan said: "There were times when I was on set at Deal or No Deal and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S. Like, we were hired based off of our looks. "It's such mixed feelings for me, because at the end of the day, they weren't hiring us for our brains. "We are attractive women, but I can't even say we were treated as though we were unintelligent," Jacobs said. Reacting to Meghan's recollection of her time on the Howie Mandel-hosted NBC show, former Deal model Tameka Jacobs told Newsweek that she has "mixed feelings" about her erstwhile co-star's take. Meghan then cut into a clip of Clare Malone, a staff writer at The New Yorker, saying "the word bimbo" is used to "cut down a beautiful woman." "Mixed Feelings" And that's how it felt for me at the time being reduced to this specific archetype." I didn't like feeling forced to be all looks and little substance. The former Suits star went on to state that she felt she was being "objectified on the stage. Tameka Jacobs (pictured inset) has spoken to Newsweek about Meghan's recollection of her time as a briefcase model on "Deal or No Deal." Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images /Courtesy of Tameka Jacobs Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is pictured right on April 15, 2022, in The Hague, Netherlands.
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