This paper examines how media representations of Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle perpetuate concepts of good femininity rooted in racialized norms. Simone de Beauvoir's concept of ‘cultural myths of femininity’ and Patricia Hill Collins's theory of ‘controlling images’ offer a framework for analyzing how mainstream health and lifestyle media promote and normalize white, bourgeois ideals of femininity. A study of 20 articles published in American and British magazines or on their websites reveals how lifestyle and health media extoll Markle as an example of a healthy and prosperous woman, thereby presenting her as what Ralina Joseph calls an ‘exceptional multiracial’. These articles promote a cult of slimness entrenched in a racist opposition between slender white women and fat Black women. ‘Multiracial exceptionalism’ further exacerbates the implicit racism in these texts.

本文研究了梅根·马克尔（Meghan Markle）健康生活方式的媒体表现如何使根植于种族规范的良好女性气质概念永存。西蒙娜·德·波伏娃（Simone de Beauvoir）的“女性化文化神话”概念和帕特里夏·希尔·柯林斯（Patricia Hill Collins）的“控制形象”理论为分析主流健康和生活方式媒体如何促进和规范白人资产阶级女性化理想提供了一个框架。对在美国和英国杂志上或在其网站上发表的20篇文章的研究表明，生活方式和健康媒体如何称赞Markle是健康，富裕的女人的典范，从而向她展示Ralina Joseph所说的“超凡多种族”。这些文章提倡一种苗条的观念，这种观念根植于苗条的白人妇女和肥胖的黑人妇女之间的种族主义对立。