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In a Powerful Op-Ed, Meghan Markle Reveals She Suffered a Miscarriage

Meghan Markle wrote an essay in The New York Times about having a miscarriage this summer—as well as how she and her husband dealt with the aftermath….

The Duchess of Sussex revealed today that, in July, she suffered a miscarriage.

In a powerful op-ed for The New York Times, Meghan Markle described how one morning she felt a sharp pain in her stomach while tending to the couple’s young son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” she wrote. Then, she described a scene of sadness at the hospital, where she and her husband mourned the loss together.

She then went on to highlight the culture of silence surrounding miscarriage: “In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage. Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”

Her piece ends with the duchess urging all of us to ask each other if we’re okay. It’s a nod to her famous 2019 interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby, where the journalist posed to her that same simple question. (Her subsequent honesty—the duchess replied that she, well, wasn’t—made headlines for its openness.) In a world riddled with partisan strife, a pandemic that’s left more than 250,000 dead in the U.S., and civil rights crises, she argues, there’s a good chance loved ones need to be asked how they’re doing—just like Meghan and Harry.

The duchess isn’t the only high-profile figure to address the stigma of miscarriage; earlier this fall, Chrissy Teigen wrote a powerful personal essay about losing her third child, Jack. She revealed that at 20 weeks, she was diagnosed with a partial placenta abruption. After a few days in the hospital, the doctors told her “it was time to say goodbye.”

“I cried a little at first, then went into full-blown convulsions of snot and tears, my breath not able to catch up with my own incredibly deep sadness,” Teigen wrote.

As many as 15% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage—which means that odds are most Americans know someone who has had one. Yet, as both women describe, it’s a topic mourned, often detrimentally so, behind closed doors. The conversations started around Meghan and Teigen’s stories will hopefully bring more mourning into the light. As the duchess puts it: “In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.”

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

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A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

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Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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