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Another One! Lupita Nyong’o Lands the Cover of ELLE Magazine’s January 2016 Issue
Lupita Nyong’o is on a roll.
The movie star has landed yet another magazine cover and we love it – can you tell we are huge fans of Lupita?
For Elle Magazine UK’s January 2016 issue, Lupita was photographed by Kai Z Feng and styled by Anne-Marie Curtis.
See excerpts from her interview below.
On diversity: “If you turn on the television and you are not represented on that television, you become invisible to yourself. And there was very little of myself that I saw on TV, or in the movies that I was watching, or in magazines that were lying around the salons or around the house. And so these are subconscious things. Yes, Western beauty standards are things that affect the entire world. And then what happens? You’re a society that doesn’t value darker skin.”
On insecurities: “[Living in Mexico as a child] people would stop and take pictures of us just because we were black. And it was a time during that tricky adolescent phase when you’re coming into yourself and you’re trying to pave your own way but you’re insecure about where you lie. It devastated me”.
On fame: “I don’t think being conspicuous is a state we’re supposed to live in, or at least not permanently. I wish there was a dial we could turn up and down. And in a sense I can, by making very deliberate choices about what I do and when and how, and with whom.”
See more from her interview here.
Photo Credit: Elle UK
