Meghan Markle’s new podcast, Confessions Of A Female Founder, has officially launched. The Duchess of Sussex kicks off the series with a candid conversation featuring her friend Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of Bumble. Unlike her recent TV show With Love, Meghan, which had a lighter, more whimsical tone, this podcast focuses on relaxed discussions between Markle and the highly successful entrepreneurial women in her inner circle.

While the format isn’t groundbreaking, there’s something compelling about the intimacy of these conversations—especially when they involve people who’ve shared private moments the public rarely sees. In this episode, Markle and Wolfe Herd open up about their experiences with postpartum preeclampsia, a rare but life-threatening condition marked by high blood pressure and excess protein in the urine. Both women—Markle, mother to Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, and Wolfe Herd, a mom of two young boys—went through the ordeal.

“We had very similar experiences, though we didn’t know each other at the time,” Markle shared. “We both had preeclampsia—postpartum preeclampsia. It’s so rare and so scary. You’re juggling everything, and the world has no idea what’s happening quietly. In that quiet, you’re still trying to show up—mostly for your kids—but these are huge medical scares.”

Dr. Liza Osagie-Clouard, a medical expert and founder of Solice Health, explains to Vogue that postpartum preeclampsia usually occurs within 48 hours of delivery but can sometimes develop weeks later. “It mirrors the signs of preeclampsia during pregnancy but strikes when many assume the danger has passed,” she says. According to the Preeclampsia Foundation, the condition can arise anytime between delivery and six weeks postpartum.

To the outside world, there was no sign Markle was privately battling a condition that affects only about 0.3% of postpartum women in the U.K. annually—and one with symptoms that are easy to overlook. Dr. Osagie-Clouard lists severe headaches, blurred vision, swelling in the face or limbs, sudden weight gain, and pain below the ribs as key indicators. “High blood pressure is also a major red flag, especially if paired with nausea or shortness of breath,” she warns.

Markle didn’t specify which pregnancy led to her diagnosis, but the conversation—a rare glimpse behind the scenes—offers an honest and vulnerable look at a deeply personal struggle.