United Kingdom, April 29 -- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex missed out on acting work because of her freckles.

The 43-year-old royal has recalled how she was constantly rejected for beauty and skincare advertisements as an aspiring actress because her complexion wasn't considered to be perfect.

In conversation with IT Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima on her 'Confessions of a Female Founder' podcast, Meghan said: "I was an auditioning actor, auditioning for commercials and I remember my commercial agent could not submit me for beauty or skincare ads because I had freckles.

"They were like: 'No, no, it's just never going to work because freckles aren't a sign of beauty.' It was just, you couldn't see yourself reflected there."

The former 'Su...