It’s never been a bed of roses – Lupita shares success story

Lupita Amondi Nyong’o has been gracing our television screens for years and every time we see her we are left in awe.

Following an Oscar win and multiple movie roles, we dare forget that once upon a time in her life she was just like us. A 20 something-year-old trying to find her purpose and her story couldn’t be more relatable.

Now 34 years old, Lupita opened up in the latest issue of the Hollywood Reporter the cover of which she graces, and talks about the beginning of her career stating:

In August 2008, I boarded a plane for Kenya. I was distraught. Five years after moving to America to become an undergraduate at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts — an experience I had endured rather than enjoyed — and weeks after leaving a nine-to-five office job that had left me feeling stifled and trapped, my dreams were crumbling. I was 25 years old and lost.

At home in Nairobi, where I’d lived since my family returned from political exile in the mid-’80s, I confided in my mother, my rock. Dorothy Nyong’o, then the head of her own PR company (and now the managing director of the Africa Cancer Foundation), suggested I read a book: Glen Allen McQuirk’s Map for Life, a self-help tome written by a family friend.

By the end of that year, with the help of the book and my own resolve, I had found a new objective, as improbable as my half-Mexican, half-Kenyan name. I scribbled down words I had never dared utter out loud: “I want to be an actor.”

Source: Zumi