It certainly was a meteoric rise to fame.
Just
seven months ago Lupita Nyong'o wasn't exactly a household name...until
she picked up the Oscar for best supporting actress in 12 Years A
Slave.
Now, to cap an extremely busy 2014, the 31-year-old has been named one of Glamour magazine's Women Of The Year and is gracing the front cover of the December issue in a sizzling white top.
The skimpy low-cut piece by The Row showed off the actress's beautifully toned and muscled shoulders and arms.
The Kenyan's short dark hair was the perfect back drop for her blingy Céline earrings that dangled to her collar bone.
In
a second shot, Lupita poured herself into a slinky white Céline sweater
dress with a demure high neckline while keeping the chandelier
earrings.
The
actress went for more colour in a flowery Christopher Kane dress,
Balenciaga bracelets and Me&Ro earrings for a third photo.
As
for her sudden success, she told Glamour: 'I’m still adjusting. I guess
I feel catapulted into a different place; I have a little whiplash…. I
did have a dream to be an actress, but I didn’t think about being
famous.
'And
I haven’t yet figured out how to be a celebrity; that’s something I’m
learning, and I wish there were a course on how to handle it.'
With
Oprah Winfrey as one of her role models growing up, she is delighted
that she has sparked what commentators call the Nyong'o Effect, opening
up the world to young women of colour.
Floral tribute: The Kenyan-Mexican,
who looked beautiful in a colourful Christopher Kane dress, is happy
what has been called the Nyong'o Effect is changing the traditional
image of beauty
'I’ve
heard people talk about images in popular culture changing, and that
makes me feel great, because it means that the little girl I was, once
upon a time, has an image to instill in her that she is beautiful, that
she is worthy, that she can…
'Until
I saw people who looked like me, doing the things I wanted to, I wasn’t
so sure it was a possibility. Seeing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah in The
Color Purple, it dawned on me: "Oh - I could be an actress!" We plant
the seed of possibility.'
Glamour’s
24th annual Women of the Year Awards will take place in New York City
on November 10. The magazine hits the newsstands the day after.
