At 31 years old, Lupita made almost all her dreams come true. She made her big break in Hollywood, bagged an Oscar among other awards, got to feature in a historical film and graced plenty of magazine covers.
But despite all this, Lupita reveals what her biggest achievement is, something that may come as a surprise to many.
“For me, my biggest accomplishment has been being able to wake every day, look myself in the mirror and still like myself, still know who I am, keep those who know me very well very close. I'm very proud of that.” she reveals to CNN’s Robyn Kriel in a new episode of ‘Leading Women’.
She also talks about her position as a role model and how she would like that image to be portrayed. “I think I'm been given a unique platform and I don't take it lightly and I embrace it. The fact that many people are watching me and looking up to me, I think it's important to have that, especially as Africans, we're starved of those positive images. I'm very honoured to be one of those positive images on a global level because I am a child of Africa and I have gotten to where I've gotten not with any form of denial of where I'm from.”
And On joining WildAid as Global Elephant Ambassador Lupita says that
“Outside of acting, right now, I have just become a global ambassador for WildAid which is an elephant conservancy organization trying to popularize being ivory free and saving elephants from extinction because at the rate we're going, in about ten years, we're going to have no more elephants. It's definitely a passion of mine and I'm looking forward to the work that I'm going to do with that organization. Other than that, I like to cook and spend time with my friends and watch movies and I love to dance.”
[H/T: Gafla Kenya]
