Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, suffered from a distressing medical emergency after giving birth to one of her two children.

Markle, who shares a son, Archie, 5, and daughter, Lilibet, 3, with her husband, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, discussed the situation on the inaugural episode of her new podcast, ‘Confessions of a Female Founder.’ Joining Markle was Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of dating app Bumble.

On the show, which debuted on Tuesday, April 8, Markle revealed that she once had postpartum preeclampsia, a life-threatening condition caused by elevated blood pressure and high protein levels in urine after childbirth, according to the Cleveland Clinic. “We both had very similar experiences, though we didn't know each other at the time — with postpartum, and we both had preeclampsia. Postpartum preeclampsia,” Markle told Wolfe Herd.

While Markle didn’t specify if the condition was triggered after the birth of her son or daughter, she called postpartum preeclampsia “so rare and so scary.” “And you're still trying to juggle all of these things, and the world doesn't know what's happening quietly,” she continued. “And in the quiet, you're still trying to show up for people – mostly for your children — but those things are huge medical scares.”

Markle previously shed light on thoughts of suicide following her first pregnancy, calling it a “constant thought” during a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.