Lupita Nyong’o Finally Meets The Inspiring Woman Who Led Her To Self Acceptance

When Lupita Nyong’o talks about the women who have inspired her she refers to the women in The Color Purple and Super Model Alek Wek. She says that Alek was a lot like her, dark-skinned with short hair, finally a public figure that she could relate to.

Seeing Alek gave her “a spring in her step because she felt more seen, more appreciated by the far away gatekeepers of beauty.”

Alek Wek

Of course such words couldn’t go unnoticed by super model Alek who thanked Lupita for the pleasing words about her adding that “Lupita made it not because of her skin color, but because of her wonderful words of saying you should never let anyone stop you,” utteredAlek. “No one can define you better than yourself. We all fall, but it’s how you pick yourself up and dust yourself off.”

After such beautiful words about each other People magazine made sure that the two beauties met:

The East African Beauties ‘working it’

The excited actress said this on meeting Alek

People mag introduced me to the radiant Alek Wek, my beauty icon whose magazine covers helped me feel much better about myself growing up.