Meghan Markle and Chrissy Teigen go way back — and recent details of their bond was uncovered during With Love, Meghan season 2.
“I used to be occupied with what number of moons ago we crossed paths,” Meghan, 44, said through the Netflix show’s second episode, which premiered on Tuesday, August 26. “That was [a] past life. That was good ‘ol Deal or No Deal.”
Teigen, 39, responded, “I feel like our lives have had so many chapters, and that one being a extremely vital, funny one.”
Teigen appeared as a briefcase model on Deal or No Deal for the show’s first season, which premiered in 2005, and went on to make a transient appearance on season 2. Teigen returned to her roots when she appeared because the mysterious banker during Deal or No Deal Island season 2 earlier this 12 months. Meghan, meanwhile, was a briefcase model from 2006 to 2007.
Meghan told With Love, Meghan viewers that it had been “almost 20 years” since she had seen Teigen. The pair baked homemade Cheez-Its and made their very own jewelry — with their kids’ birth flowers — during Teigen’s appearance on the show while having a walk down memory lane. (The episode also featured Meghan’s first foray into the sourdough-baking world.)
“I remember mainly being a backup girl [on Deal or No Deal],” Teigen continued. “Then becoming the alternate, then becoming the banker.”
Meghan recalled all the ladies “having to face in line” to get their false lashes placed on.
“I do remember coming off stage sooner or later they usually held a Ziploc bag open and all of us just took our eyelashes off and put it in there,” Teigen added. “I’m like, ‘Are these for tomorrow?’ We’d all just close our eyes. What a time, though.”
Meghan said she was “so comfortable to have medical health insurance” at the moment in her life.
“Like, I get medical health insurance with this job,” the Suits alum said. “I left that show after which only a 12 months or so later you bought famous. I used to be like, ‘Oh my, God, she’s on the quilt of Sports Illustrated. She was just sitting back there in a little bit chair waiting.’ You were so sweet.”
Teigen and Meghan said the ladies were “not competitive in any respect” with one another.
“Literally, [I] was just fascinated by all of you and just so comfortable to be on this planet of Hollywood,” Teigen said. Meghan added, “How far we’ve come.”
All episodes of With Love, Meghan are actually streaming on Netflix.