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Lupita Nyong'o Is Flawless As She Covers Vogue For The Second Time(Photos)
Lupita Nyong'o Covers July Edition Of Vogue Magazine
The sky seems to be the limit for the Oscar winning actress, whose has now added Vogue's cover to her ever growing CV.
In Vogue's June edition, the actress who holds both Kenyan and Mexican citizenship talks about her rise to stardom, how she went from been seemingly unknown to been one of the most talked about persons in the past one year. Should be an interesting piece.
Dencia Replies fan for insulting Lupita Nyong'o
Dencia is really showing that she is not competing with Lupita Nyong'o as the press have been suggesting. In a rather matured way, she said her mind when a fan slammed Lupita's bikini photo.
She may have issues with Lupita over Whitenicious,but when it goes beyond that, she stands for her fellow woman..
The fan said "If you actually prefer Lupita to Dencia,,you are so Gay"and she responded "That's not nice.Remember diff strokes for diff folks"
See for yourself;
Photo : Lupita Nyong'o Flaunts Her Bikini Body
Hollywood actress and Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o was spotted at the beach in Wailea, Hawaii yesterday. What do you think?
Agree Or Not? : People Magazine Names Lupita Nyong'o The Most Beautiful Woman
Kenyan Hollywood and Oscar winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has been named People magazine's Most Beautiful woman 2014. She is the cover for the 25th publication of the magazine.
"It was exciting and just a major, major compliment and especially, I was happy for all the girls who would see me on [it] and feel a little more seen." Lupita said.
Lupita Nyong'o Talks About Black Beauty and About Dencia's Whitenicious
The African publication Essence Magazine held its 7th Annual Black Women in hollywood Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, USA yesterday and Oscar nominee Lupita Nyong'o was honoured at the event.
When accepting the award the dark skin actress gave a speech on how black is beauty, she even made reference to how a fan wrote her on wanting to buy Dencia's ''Whitenicious'' and her battle with being black, accepting that black is beauty....Guests at the event includes Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Kerry Washington and Chaka Khan....
Read her full acceptance speech below...
I wrote down this speech that I had no time to practice so this will be the practicing session.
Thank you Alfre, for such an amazing, amazing introduction and celebration of my work. And thank you very much for inviting me to be a part of such an extraordinary community.
I am surrounded by people who have inspired me, women in particular whose presence on screen made me feel a little more seen and heard and understood. That it is ESSENCE that holds this event celebrating our professional gains of the year is significant, a beauty magazine that recognizes the beauty that we not just possess but also produce.
I want to take this opportunity to talk about beauty, Black beauty, dark beauty. I received a letter from a girl and I’d like to share just a small part of it with you: “Dear Lupita,” it reads, “I think you’re really lucky to be this Black but yet this successful in Hollywood overnight. I was just about to buy Dencia’s Whitenicious cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me.”
My heart bled a little when I read those words, I could never have guessed that my first job out of school would be so powerful in and of itself and that it would propel me to be such an image of hope in the same way that the women of The Color Purple were to me.
I remember a time when I too felt unbeautiful. I put on the TV and only saw pale skin, I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin. And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first. And every day I experienced the same disappointment of being just as dark as I was the day before. I tried to negotiate with God, I told him I would stop stealing sugar cubes at night if he gave me what I wanted, I would listen to my mother’s every word and never lose my school sweater again if he just made me a little lighter. But I guess God was unimpressed with my bargaining chips because He never listened.
And when I was a teenager my self-hate grew worse, as you can imagine happens with adolescence. My mother reminded me often that she thought that I was beautiful but that was no conservation, she’s my mother, of course she’s supposed to think I am beautiful. And then…Alek Wek. A celebrated model, she was dark as night, she was on all of the runways and in every magazine and everyone was talking about how beautiful she was. Even Oprah called her beautiful and that made it a fact. I couldn’t believe that people were embracing a woman who looked so much like me, as beautiful. My complexion had always been an obstacle to overcome and all of a sudden Oprah was telling me it wasn’t. It was perplexing and I wanted to reject it because I had begun to enjoy the seduction of inadequacy. But a flower couldn’t help but bloom inside of me, when I saw Alek I inadvertently saw a reflection of myself that I could not deny. Now, I had a spring in my step because I felt more seen, more appreciated by the far away gatekeepers of beauty. But around me the preference for my skin prevailed, to the courters that I thought mattered I was still unbeautiful. And my mother again would say to me you can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you and these words plagued and bothered me; I didn’t really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
And what my mother meant when she said you can’t eat beauty was that you can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul. It is what got Patsey in so much trouble with her master, but it is also what has kept her story alive to this day. We remember the beauty of her spirit even after the beauty of her body has faded away.
And so I hope that my presence on your screens and in the magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside.
There is no shame in Black beauty.
Who is Lupita Nyong'o And things you didn't know about her
If you still haven't heard the name "Lupita Nyong' O, then you haven't be close to your television or radio lately because she has won global recognition and fame after her superb role in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave.Following her performance she has won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the Screen Actors' Guild Awards and at the Critics' Choice Awards.Also, she has been nominated for an Oscar for her role as Patsey in the much-acclaimed historical drama.
Here are five things you didn't know about Lupita Nyong'o:
1) She graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2012 with a master's degree in acting
2) Fresh out of university, 12 Years a Slave was her very first acting job
3) The elegant actress stands at just 5 feet 5 inches tall
4) Her next film role is in Non-Stop, which also features Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Michelle Dockery
5) Her superior fashion choices have landed her a gig alongside Elle Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, and Bella Heathcote as the face of Miu Miu's spring ad campaign.
I hope upcoming Nigeria actress follow her foot steps and stop the bleaching trend going on at the moment. She is respected because of her unique personality.
