{"id":9575,"date":"2015-09-18T06:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T06:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2015-09-18T06:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T06:15:17","slug":"lupita-vogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/lupita-vogue","title":{"rendered":"Lupita Nyong&#8217;o Lands Her Second Vogue Cover And Shares Personal Stories In Her Interview\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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While there, she graced the cover of Vogue for the second time and gave <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/13336021\/lupita-nyongo-october-2015-cover\/?mbid=social_facebook\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an exclusive interview to the magazine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She had come directly from a visit to her native country Kenya, where she was helping save the elephants, but she did not appear tired in the slightest; she was beaming and cheerful as always as she dished out details on her professional and personal life.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Connected with her roots<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The actress has loved fashion long before she was gracing the red carpets. She remembers wearing a stylish eighties red cord mini skirt with suspender straps when she was five years old, stating that fashion and presentation are very important in Kenya. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You dress formally. You can\u2019t just wear flip-flops. My mother always had her own style. She wore A-line, tea-length flowery dresses, very well fitting. Her nails were always perfectly done.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While growing up in Nairobi, she remembers going to the salon every two weeks to get her hair braided, washed, or treated. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9577\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/LN.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/LN.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/LN-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/LN-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-tFqWRSmzPyM\/U4N6TVZI11I\/AAAAAAAADVg\/zoLd_yXCVNc\/s1600\/LN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">{adinserter CNP5}<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>She loves the couture fashion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During her visits to the salon, she was exposed to American, British, and a few African magazines. Her fashion sense evolved from there &#8211; \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then I would design my own clothes. In Kenya it\u2019s much cheaper to get clothes made than to buy them. We would have everything run up by a tailor, or my aunt Kitty, who is very creative, would sew things for me.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This visit to Paris was the first experience she had trying on a couture dress, which she said was so powerful it made her cry.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9578\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nutmsu4eW81rrrdnoo3_1280-1.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nutmsu4eW81rrrdnoo3_1280-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nutmsu4eW81rrrdnoo3_1280-1-600x405.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nutmsu4eW81rrrdnoo3_1280-1-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/382518b16c511a081356c6306b606298\/tumblr_nutmsu4eW81rrrdnoo3_1280.png\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>But her early life was not all glamorou<\/strong>s<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lupita\u2019s father, Peter Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o, was an opposition politician under the Moi regime and the family was forced to hide out in Mexico for three years. Lupita was actually born there and did not go to Nairobi until she was one. Her father would sometimes be in jail and the family had to destroy a lot of documents in his absence. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t allowed to go to school. We were basically locked up in the house. The curtains were shut all the time, and we were just burning papers&#8230;I was definitely exposed to some extreme situations. Tragedy is something that I have known and that I have tried to accept as part of life. But I don\u2019t dwell on it\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9579\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/c39ecc5548c2c5bfc6f39b7e90d56130.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/c39ecc5548c2c5bfc6f39b7e90d56130.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/c39ecc5548c2c5bfc6f39b7e90d56130-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/c39ecc5548c2c5bfc6f39b7e90d56130-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/c3\/9e\/cc\/c39ecc5548c2c5bfc6f39b7e90d56130.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Her experience with race<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lupita is Luo, one of the darkest skinned groups in Africa, was often told she was too dark for parts in Nairobi. When she moved to the United States, she was confronted with a very different idea of race than what she grew up with.\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs Africans, we don\u2019t 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?\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> she recalls. She soon realized that people would treat her differently because of her race, but that did not discourage her from pursuing success. She has overcome so many hurdles and has become one of the most in-demand actresses with several major projects coming up, including the latest <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Star Wars<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> movie. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/lupita-nyongo-vogue-cover-october-2015-10.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/lupita-nyongo-vogue-cover-october-2015-10.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/lupita-nyongo-vogue-cover-october-2015-10-439x600.jpg 439w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/lupita-nyongo-vogue-cover-october-2015-10-85x116.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a 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