Early in her career, Lupita Nyong'o just wanted to blend into Hollywood, but she soon realized standing out was a hidden gift. For the first episode of her new podcast Mind Your Own, Lupita opened up about her intimate journey to fully accepting her identity and battling the "complicated relationship with the way I speak” for years.

On her new podcast ‘Mind Your Own,’ Lupita Nyong'o opened up about embracing her identity: “This accent is called Lupita!” Lupita Nyong'o is opening up about embracing every part of her identity. On the first episode of her new podcast Mind Your Own,

“I guess this accent is called Lupita! I don’t know who could claim it but me.”

Lupita Nyong’o was born in Mexico and raised mainly in Nairobi, Kenya, with the actress living in the US for the last 20 years.

Lupita Nyong’o does not want to camouflage her true self with a different accent.In the first episode of her new podcast, Mind Your Own, the Wild Robot star opened up about returning to

Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o has opened up about how she spent years battling with the way she speaks and what made her turn back to her Kenyan accent.

Lupita Nyong’o spent years battling with the way she speaks. The 41-year-old – whose breakout role was playing abused plantation worker Patsey in Sir Steve McQueen’s plantation-era ‘12 Years a Slave’ film – was born in Mexico and raised mainly in Nairobi,

Lupita Nyong’o has opened up about embracing her Kenyan accent after years of masking it to fit into Hollywood.