Meghan Markle gets support from Hollywood star amid twerk video backlash
Meghan Markle shared a video of herself dancing when she was pregnant
June 06, 2025
A Hollywood star has rushed to Meghan Markle’s defense as the Duchess of Sussex faces another wave of online backlash over a candid dance video she shared.
Taking to Instagram, Meghan shared a video of her and Prince Harry dancing to Starrkeisha's The Baby Momma Dance in the delivery room before she had Princess Lilibet.
In the caption, she noted that both of her kids were two weeks late and she did the dance, which included a little twerking, to induce labor. For the unversed, the song became a TikTok challenge in 2021 and thousands of pregnant women danced to it.
The video came after a series of posts on Lilibet’s fourth birthday. Meghan shared a photo of herself holding newborn Lilibet after birth and photos of Harry and the four-year-old.
Various media outlets then shared the video, and many users called the video “cute” while others questioned if her belly was real and dubbed it cringe.
US TV star and singer Candiace Dillard Bassett took to social media to call out those criticizing the video.
She reposted a tweet on X which read: "No woman 9 months pregnant moves that way. And that belly is lumpy and Meg moves it around like a sack of jelly beans.”
It continued, "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!"
Dillard shot back, writing, "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 singer then took to Instagram, writing, "I wasn’t going to say anything. But then I remembered I have receipts.”
"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," she continued.
"So when I see yet again the internet twisting itself into knots to disprove the humanity of a Black woman’s motherhood—suggesting her stomach 'towels,' her child an illusion, her joy a lie—I’m reminded that misogynoir has no expiration date. Stand down. She had a baby. And some of y’all need to sit with why that threatens you so much," she concluded.
