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Jessica Gibb

Inside Meghan Markle's new California girlfriend squad from A-list stars to billionaire

Meghan Markle has a new squad girlfriends and it seems like she's found the perfect mix of successful women to surround herself with.

They say your friends with have a huge impact on your life and can influence your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.

And it seems Meghan is focused on being positive, healthy and successful as she invests her time in an impressive group of self-made women amid rumours she's about to restar her own lifestyle brand The Tig.

Meghan and her husband Prince Harry were spotted heading out to dinner on Friday with Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Brad Falchuk as well as Cameron Diaz and her rocker husband Benji Madden.

It's also thought the founder of dating app Bumble - where women make the first move - Whitney Wolf Herd also joined with her husband, Michael Herd.

We take a look at this inspirational group and some of their biggest achievements.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow has turned her lifestyle brand Goop into a £200m wellness empire (WireImage)

Gwyneth Paltrow seems like she'd have a lot in common with Meghan.

They both started their careers as actresses - and Gwyneth even won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1999 for Shakespeare in Love.

But she also has an interest in the wellness industry and has her own brand Goop in a similar vein of Meghan's now defunct The Tig.

There have been rumours that Meghan's lifestyle blog The Tig is set for a comeback – and could take on Gwyneth's £200million Goop empire.

The Duchess, 41, has got official preliminary approval to revive the website she shut down after getting engaged to Prince Harry in 2017.

Like Goop, the revamped blog would offer tips on food, travel, fashion, the arts, design, conscious living and wellness.

The mum of two could also become a kind of agony aunt, according to details filed with the US Trademark and Patent Office. Despite notable tensions between Meghan, her dad, sister and the Royal Family, her site would dole out “commentary in the field of personal relationships”, papers state.

Meghan founded The Tig, named after her favourite red wine, in 2014 while starring in legal drama Suits.

Could Gwyneth be offering advice on how to get back into the wellness industry?

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz took a leap into the world of wellness during her break from acting (Getty Images for World of Wonder)
Cameron with her husband Benji Madden (GC Images)

Cameron Diaz is currently making her return to acting after leaving the industry for eight years.

The 50-year-old will star longside Glenn Close and Jamie Foxx on upcoming Netflix movie Back In Action.

When the Charlie's Angels star made the decision to pause her acting career she was the highest paid actress over 40.

In the years since, Cameron branched out into the lifestyle world launching her own wine brand named Avaline that is vegan friendly and has no added sugar or unwanted additives

She also published her second book, The Longevity Book , giving personal and practical advice on growing older and steps women can take to create abundant health and resilience as they age.

So it seems Cameron is another fountain of knowledge on the wellness industry.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Whitney Wolfe Herd (right) founder and CEO of the social networking app Bumble with Andrey Andreev, founder of the dating group that includes Badoo and Bumble (PA)

Whitney became the world's youngest self-made female billionaire when she took her dating app Bumble public in 2021.

Forbes estimated her net worth at approximately $1.5 billion.

The 33-year-old from Salt Lake City in Utah launched the app in 2014 when she was just 25.

She is also a co-founder of Tinder and was previously its Vice President of Marketing until she resigned in April 2014 and filed a lawsuit against Tinder for sexual harassment.

She then set out to create a female-friendly dating app and the rest is history.

“Honestly, my ambition comes from abusive relationships,” Wolfe Herd previously told Time. “I’ve never had this healthy male relationship until I created it. I engineered an ecosystem of healthy male relationships in my life.”

The app has been a roaring success and even adapted to the post-pandemic world by offering new 'vaccinated' profile badges to users.

If anyone knows how to make a business successful it's Whitney so perhaps she has some advice for Meghan on how to make The Tig a runaway success and money maker?

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