Meghan Markle's 'Iconic' Transformation After Marrying Harry Goes Viral

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Meghan Markle's "iconic" transformation since her days as a briefcase model on Deal or No Deal has gone viral on Tiktok—based on a series of images of her in fabulous hats.

The Duchess of Sussex did a stint on Howie Mandel's game show when she was an up-and-coming actress, but those days were far behind her by the time she married Prince Harry in May 2018.

One TikTok user has charted the change in her style over that period in a video watched more than 475,000 times.

Captioned simply "iconic," the footage includes images of Meghan wearing the Deal or No Deal red dress, followed by other photos from her royal and post-royal life.

One reply with more than 18,000 likes read: "The fact she is older than Kate, William and Harry and looks like the youngest.. she is MY ICON. THATS POSITIVE KARMA BABY."

Another TikToker received more than 13,000 likes for the comment: "I'm so obsessed it's not even healthy."

One post with more than 8,000 likes said: "I don't understand the hate towards her if you don't like her explain why."

Another wrote: "She's simply stunning."

In 2013, when Meghan was starring in Suits and several years before she met Prince Harry, she discussed Deal or No Deal in an interview with Esquire.

Meghan Transformed After Royal Life — Meghan Markle, center, at a pre-Emmy event in Los Angeles in September 2015 and in four of the outfits from a video that went viral. They are, clockwise from top left: Ascot in 2018; Charles'... Getty Images

At the time, she was already looking at that part of her life as one she was happy to see the back of.

She said: "I would put that in the category of things I was doing while I was auditioning to try to make ends meet. I went from working in the US embassy in Argentina to ending up on Deal. It's run the gamut.

"Definitely working on Deal or No Deal was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing. So, if that's a way for me to gloss over that subject, then I will happily shift gears into something else."

Meghan also discussed her financial struggle when she was trying to make it as an actress during an appearance on The Ellen Show in November 2021: "I had this very old Ford Explorer Sport, and at a certain point the key stopped working on the driver's side, so you couldn't get yourself in through the door.

"So, after auditions I would park at the back of the parking lot, and I would open the trunk and climb in, and then pull it shut behind me and crawl over all my seats."

Nowadays, those concerns are far behind her as she and Harry raise their children Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor at a $14.7 million mansion in Montecito, Santa Barbara.