They Once Told Me My Skin Was Too Dark to be On TV - Lupita Nyong'o is a Goddess on Vogue Cover
Lupita Nyong'o is a golden goddess on her second Vogue cover... and recalls how as a teen she was told her skin was 'too dark to be on TV' Kenyan Hollywood actress, Lupita Amondi Nyong'o, who is a member of one of the darkest-skinned African tribes - Luo, resembled a golden goddess clad in Valentino on her second Vogue magazine cover, which hits newsstands last Tuesday.
The 32-year-old Oscar winner wrote to her 1.7 million Instagram followers, "What an honour, joy and THRILL it was to work on this October issue!". Photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott shot the Non-Stop actress, styled by Tonne Goodman in Paris at the Schiaparelli House and the Picasso Museum.
During her teen years auditioning in Nairobi, Nyong'o was told her skin was 'too dark' for her to be on TV, and she scoffed. "No. It didn't ring true. I just thought, I need to find another way," said the Brooklyn-based beauty.
The discrimination continued while the '12 Years a Slave' star attended Massachusetts' Hampshire College at age 20.
"I realized that my skin color was making some people see me differently,' the Mexican-born, Kenyan-raised actress recalled. As Africans, we don't grow up with a racial identity. We grow up with cultural and ethnic identity before racial identity. I never used the word black as a child. It was never a thing. When was I ever discussing black? Why?"
Nyong'o has been single since splitting with rapper K'naan late last year, but her mother Dorothy is already pressuring her to have children.
"When I was back in Kenya this past week, I would be driving along with my mother and she would say, 'That's a nice school for children' and look at me like. But I think that will all be determined when I have that moment. When I have that man...I live alone [in Brooklyn]. I lie quite low. I take the
subway. I do yoga. I meditate," the WildAid ambassador said
The 32-year-old Oscar winner wrote to her 1.7 million Instagram followers, "What an honour, joy and THRILL it was to work on this October issue!". Photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott shot the Non-Stop actress, styled by Tonne Goodman in Paris at the Schiaparelli House and the Picasso Museum.
During her teen years auditioning in Nairobi, Nyong'o was told her skin was 'too dark' for her to be on TV, and she scoffed. "No. It didn't ring true. I just thought, I need to find another way," said the Brooklyn-based beauty.
The discrimination continued while the '12 Years a Slave' star attended Massachusetts' Hampshire College at age 20.
"I realized that my skin color was making some people see me differently,' the Mexican-born, Kenyan-raised actress recalled. As Africans, we don't grow up with a racial identity. We grow up with cultural and ethnic identity before racial identity. I never used the word black as a child. It was never a thing. When was I ever discussing black? Why?"
Lupita and her mum pictured above
Nyong'o has been single since splitting with rapper K'naan late last year, but her mother Dorothy is already pressuring her to have children.
"When I was back in Kenya this past week, I would be driving along with my mother and she would say, 'That's a nice school for children' and look at me like. But I think that will all be determined when I have that moment. When I have that man...I live alone [in Brooklyn]. I lie quite low. I take the
subway. I do yoga. I meditate," the WildAid ambassador said
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