Meghan Markle has admitted she might "rethink her parenting style" to make sure her children Archie and Lilibet are "self-sufficient".
The Duchess made the quip in the latest episode of her Spotify podcast Archetypes during a chat with business mogul Mellody Hobson, chairwoman of the Starbucks corporation.
In the interview, Mellody reflects on her childhood, when her family were struggling to make ends meet and talks about how she became self-conscious of her teeth.
She tells Meghan that as a 12-year-old she took it upon herself to find an orthodontist, go and see them and work out her own payment plan for her dental treatment.
And an impressed Meghan listening to the story said it would make her reassess how she was bringing up her three-year-old son and daughter, who is one.
She laughed and said: "I have to rethink my parenting style! Because if that's what yields you, then I've really got to up my game with our kids being self-sufficient."
Throughout the latest episode of the podcast, Meghan also "explores the origin and plague of 'the B-word' and its cousin 'difficult' and how these terms are often wrongly applied to a strong-minded woman".
Reports from when Meghan and husband Prince Harry were still working members of the Royal Family suggested that she had been given the label of "Duchess Difficult".
It came following claims that the former Suits actress would fire off emails in the early morning hours and make "huge demands" of her staff.
Meghan examined why women are sometimes branded a b**** and said: "What these people are implying when they use that very charged word, is that this woman, 'Oh, she's difficult'."
And near the end of the episode, she added: "I was just chatting with my girlfriend's recently and I was asking them for the show, what a sort of archetypes, you think we should discuss and almost immediately unequivocally they all jump to difficult.
"That's the word you have to talk about difficult.
"They said it gets thrown around so casually now and as a woman, my friend said to me, there's a certain point when you come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like you.
"The goal can't be for everyone to like you but the goal can be for them to respect you."
Meghan and husband Prince Harry signed a lucrative deal with the audio streaming giant Spotify to host and produce podcasts, estimated to be worth around £18 million, in late 2020.
Archetypes was launched with the aim of investigating "labels that try to hold women back" through conversations between Meghan and historians, experts and women who have experienced being typecast.
Other guests on her podcast have included Paris Hilton, Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Mindy Kaling.
