Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has said she was "conditioned to reject" her complexion but felt permission to value it thanks to the Sudanese-British model Alek Wek.
The Black Panther star, 41, told Harper's Bazaar UK that Wek was a "turning point" for her. "Her (Wek's) existence was radical for me", she said. "The very fact that she was a successful model, and that people were ascribing to her the word 'beautiful', was revolutionary." "It was so confronting to me because I had been conditioned to reject my complexion. (Wek) was the turning point for me.
I thought, 'Oh, I have permission to value my complexion.'" READ MORE: She was enjoying a family day out in Blackpool...
but what she saw horrified her Nyong'o, who was born in Mexico and grew up in Kenya, won the best supporting actress Oscar in 2014 for her role in 12 Years A Slave.
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