“Give me romantic” – and she immediately starts seducing her own reflection. Even seasoned Hollywood photographers say they’ve never witnessed vanity this extremeMONTECITO – A behind-the-scenes clip from Meghan Markle’s $100 million Netflix flop With Love, Meghan has exploded across social media, prompting one of the most brutal public reckonings of the Duchess’s career: Is Meghan Markle now officially the most self-obsessed woman in global entertainment?
The 11-second video, first posted anonymously on X late Thursday and now closing in on 12 million views, captures the exact moment a photographer gently directs the former Suits actress with three simple words:
“Give me romantic.”What happens next has been described by crew members as “bizarre,” “uncomfortable,” and “borderline erotic performance art – directed entirely at herself.”Meghan’s eyes flutter shut in apparent rapture.
Her head tilts back dramatically.
Her right hand glides slowly up her own throat and across her collarbone as if she’s starring in a luxury perfume advert that no one asked for.
She exhales an audible, breathy moan.
Then – in a move that has left even jaded Hollywood insiders open-mouthed – she locks eyes not with the lens, but with her own image on the monitor, bites her lower lip, and runs both hands through her hair while arching her back like a 1990s supermodel mid-shampoo orgasm.
The photographer is heard off-camera muttering, “Uh… okay, maybe dial it back a notch.”He wasn’t the only one stunned.“I’ve shot every major supermodel and every Kardashian – nothing compares to this”
A veteran stills photographer who has worked on campaigns for Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé, and Gisele Bündchen told this publication on condition of anonymity:
“I have literally never seen a talent caress themselves that aggressively while staring at their own monitor. Kim will watch playback to check if the contour is right. Meghan wasn’t checking lighting. She was making out with her own reflection. It was… intimate. Too intimate.
We all just stood there frozen.”Multiple sources on the Montecito set claim the crew had to institute an unofficial rule: never use the words “romantic,” “soft,” “sensual,” or “dreamy” within earshot of the Duchess, because she would immediately launch into the same self-seduction routine – unprompted, unrehearsed, and apparently unstoppable.One assistant director allegedly pleaded after take 27: “Can we just get one where she’s looking at the camera like a normal human being?”72 hours of non-stop self-worship – but zero actual product placementSince the clip leaked, Meghan’s Instagram has entered what royal watchers are calling “full narcissistic meltdown mode.”In the past three days alone:
- 41 Instagram stories
- 12 grid posts
- 9 Reels
- 4 “get ready with me” transition videos
Exactly three of those posts mention an actual product from American Riviera Orchard. The rest? Glamour shots of Meghan laughing with her head thrown back, Meghan smelling roses, Meghan twirling in cashmere, Meghan gazing wistfully into middle distance while the wind machine (yes, there was a wind machine in her own kitchen) tousles her $800 blowout.As one brutally honest marketing executive who previously consulted for Goop told us:
“If she put 15 % of the energy she spends worshipping her own bone structure into selling the $78 honey or the $52 flower-pressed notecards, she’d be sold out by now. This isn’t lifestyle branding. This is a woman live-streaming her love affair with herself – and billing Netflix for it.”The psychology experts weigh in – and it’s brutalWe showed the clip to four leading body-language and personality-disorder specialists. Their unfiltered diagnoses:
- “Classic narcissistic self-soothing behavior performed for an audience of one – herself.” – Dr. Ramani Durvasula, clinical psychologist and narcissism expert
- “This level of self-fascination in front of 30 crew members is exhibitionist narcissism on steroids.” – Professor Craig Malkin, Harvard Medical School
- “Diana used the camera to connect with the world. Meghan uses it to connect with Meghan.” – Judi James, UK’s top royal body-language analyst
- “I’ve studied cult leaders with less self-entrancement.” – Anonymous forensic psychologist
Even some of Meghan’s most loyal fan accounts have gone quiet or posted crying-laughing emojis under the clip – a rare moment of self-awareness from the Sussex stan community.Netflix executives reportedly “having kittens”Insiders at Netflix say senior executives held an emergency Zoom call titled “Damage Control: Operation Less Mirror” after test audiences scored the series’ “relatability” factor at an astonishing 2.1 out of 10. One producer allegedly screamed during the meeting: “We paid $100 million for Martha Stewart, not for a woman fellating her own reflection in 4K!”Early viewing figures are catastrophic: With Love, Meghan has been hovering outside the global Top 30 for nine straight days – routinely beaten by a 2017 documentary about airport security dogs.The final, devastating question no one in her circle dares askWhen a photographer says “romantic,” normal people think of their partner, their children, or at the very least the viewer at home.Meghan Markle, it appears, thinks only of one person.And that person is staring back at her from the monitor.Sources close to the set say the crew now refers to that particular playback screen as “Meghan’s real co-star.”As one longtime Hollywood publicist put it:
“Kim Kardashian built an empire by making people feel they could buy into her glamour. Meghan Markle is building an empire by making people watch her buy into her own.”Whether the Duchess can ever promote anything – a jam, a dog treat, a television show – with even a fraction of the passion she reserves for promoting herself remains the $100 million question Netflix is now desperately trying to answer.But after this video?
Even the Kardashians are reportedly speechless.And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you know it’s bad.
