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Lupita Nyong’o is ‘GLAMOUR’S’ Woman of the Year

Lupita Nyong’o is ‘GLAMOUR’S’ Woman of the Year

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Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o continues to have the year of her life. The 31-year-old has been named GLAMOUR magazine’s “Woman of the Year.” In the pages of the coveted spread, Nyong’o opens up about “the Lupita Effect” and how her success has changed her life. She said…

On “the Lupita Effect”

I giggle. I just heard it for the first time. I’ve heard people talk about images in popular culture changing, and that makes me feel great, because it means that the little girl I was, once upon a time, has an image to instill in her that she is beautiful, that she is worthy—that she can… Until I saw people who looked like me, doing the things I wanted to, I wasn’t so sure it was a possibility. Seeing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah in The Color Purple, it dawned on me: “Oh—I could be an actress!” We plant the seed of possibility.

On how her life has changed since her big Oscar win:

This is actually a conversation I look forward to having in 10 years, when all of this is behind me and I have some real perspective on what happened—because right now I’m still adjusting. I guess I feel catapulted into a different place; I have a little whiplash…. I did have a dream to be an actress, but I didn’t think about being famous. And I haven’t yet figured out how to be a celebrity; that’s something I’m learning, and I wish there were a course on how to handle it. I have to be aware that my kinesphere may be larger than I want it to be.

I’ve had somebody say, “I want you at my wedding, but I don’t want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!” Losing my anonymity is something that’s proving to be very challenging…. It’s good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there’s so much you can’t do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.

Check out Nyong’o’s “Woman of the Year” spread below…

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