Cover Slayage! Lupita Nyong’o For ‘Essence’ & ‘Elle UK’ [Photos]
Lupita Nyongo’s cover slayage continues. The Kenyan beauty covers the January issue of ESSENCE, telling the outlet.
I didn’t grow up seeing African women onstage very often, much less African women in African stories. I was in love with the world Danai created.
On the garnered fame she experienced from 12 Years A Slave, she says:
After 12 Years a Slave and the quote-unquote meteoric rise, I felt like there was a moment where I was suffering from whiplash. I had talked so much about who I was that I’d forgotten who I was.
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Thanks Scott!! It is such a confusing road sometimes, maintaining the balance between what we want to so and what we can do. But I so appreciate your sensitivity to this topic, some days I wish I had thicker skin, but most days I am glad that I do#n8&217;t.