Meghan Markle may have been caught in a lie while discussing her childhood eating habits.

The duchess, 44, appeared as a guest judge on the July 26 episode of MasterChef Australia and painted a fresh, vibrant picture of the food she ate while being raised in California.

“I grew up in California and so, as you know, we have incredible produce, so you just start to love farm-to-table at an early age,” she told judges and contestants.

She referred to her mother, Doria Ragland, as an “incredible cook.”

“Food and cooking are how I show my nurturing and love for my friends, family and my kids,” she said.

However, the former actress painted a very different picture on her Netflix show With, Love Meghan, She Knows reported.

“I was a latchkey kid,” Meghan explained on a 2025 episode of the homemaking series. “I grew up with a lot of fast food and also a lot of TV-tray dinners.”

In her recent MasterChef appearance, the mom-of-two claimed to have watched “so many cooking shows” when she was a child, though she previously shared that microwaved meals were “normal” during her upbringing with a single mother.

“I used to eat a lot of Pollo Loco, Taco Bell… Jack In The Box, because my mom loved their tacos,” she spilled.

Social media users caught on to her conflicting memories, and while some admitted two things could be true, others weren’t totally sold on Meghan’s story.

“Her story changes according to needs, and as long as it serves her narrative, it doesn’t matter to her. She thinks the public is stoooopid, I guess,” one person said.

“This woman lies so much, she doesn’t know when she is telling the truth, if she ever does,” another added.

“She’s such a liar. Everything out of her mouth is plagiarized or an outright lie,” a third claimed.

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