Martha Stewart: ‘Hope’ Meghan Markle ‘Knows What She’s Talking About’

Martha Stewart may be all about manners, but she wasn’t exactly gracious when asked about Meghan Markle’s lifestyle influencer ambitions.

The domestic goddess and media mogul was subtle but seemingly skeptical when the Duchess of Sussex came up in a new interview with Yahoo Lifestyle.

“Meghan I don’t really know very well, and I hope she knows what she’s talking about,” Stewart said of Markle, whose cooking, hosting and all things homestead show on Netflix, “With Love, Meghan,” premiered last year ahead of the launch of her curated product line, As Ever.

Offering what sounded like a faint note of side-eye, Stewart added, “Authenticity, to me, is everything, and to be authentic and knowledgeable about your subject matter is extremely important.”

“Has it started?” she asked, adding she was “curious” and would watch an episode to “see how she does.”

While talking to Yahoo Lifestyle, Stewart was more generous with her praise for Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop empire.

“Gwyneth has been very successful; she created quite an interesting body of businesses,” she said. “She’s admired. She won an Oscar for heaven’s sake as an actress! She’s pretty powerful.”

Still, Stewart seemed unbothered by the competition… if they could even be called that.

“I don’t mind,” she said of her peers. “Good luck.”