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Why is Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o upset?

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November 12, 2017 10:00 IST

The Hollywood actor was really disappointed with Grazia UK for retouching her hair.

The retouched cover.
Photograph: Grazia UK cover, November 2017

Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o has called out Grazia magazine for retouching her natural hair in their November issue.

In the magazine cover, Nyng'o appears with a shaven head, but the actor shared the original images on her Instagram where she has a loose afro ponytail.

"As I have made clear so often in the past with every fiber of my being, I embrace my natural heritage and despite having grown up thinking light skin and straight, silky hair were the standards of beauty, I now know that my dark skin and kinky, coily hair are beautiful too," Nyng'o wrote.

Lupita uploaded this pic on her Instagram page. The image to the right is the original one. 
Photograph: Kind courtesy Lupita Nyong'o/Instagram

The 34-year-old star said while she loved being featured on the magazine's cover, it defeated the very purpose of promoting different ideas of beauty.

"Being featured on the cover of a magazine fulfills me as it is an opportunity to show other dark, kinky-haired people, and particularly our children, that they are beautiful just the way they are.

"I am disappointed that @graziauk invited me to be on their cover and then edited out and smoothed my hair to fit their notion of what beautiful hair looks like."

"Had I been consulted, I would have explained that I cannot support or condone the omission of what is my native heritage with the intention that they appreciate that there is still a very long way to go to combat the unconscious prejudice against black women's complexion, hair style and texture."

Source: PTI
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