Lupita Nyong’o Thanks Sudanese Supermodel Alek Wek For Helping Her Grow To Love Her Beautiful Black Skin!!

Lupita says Alek Wek is her beauty icon!

The Oscar-winning actress recently landed the
recognition of People magazine’s most beautiful
person of 2014 and in doing so, landed the
cover of the popular magazine


Nyong’o serves as an inspiration for countless
girls around the world – she’s a remarkable
combination of beauty and brains and more
importantly, she has used this to help uplift
others.
But who inspires her? According to the moving
speech she delivered at Essence’s Black Women
in Hollywood event, Nyong’o acknowledged
Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek to be one of her
biggest inspirations.
“Alek Wek came on the international scene, a
celebrated model – she was dark as night, she
was on all the runways, and in every magazine
and everyone was talking about how beautiful
she was,” she said.
“I couldn’t believe that people were embracing
a woman that looked so much like me as
beautiful,” Nyong’o went on to say. “When I saw
Alek, I inadvertently saw a reflection of myself
that I could not deny.”
This week, during People magazine’s cover
photo shoot, Wek stopped by to surprise
Nyong’o and it was a moment the actress
described as a “dream come true.”