Video: What the most beautiful person in the world can teach us about beauty

Watch: People magazine named her most beautiful person in the world but Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o has her own ideas about what beauty means


What does it mean to be beautiful?

A  few months before being honoured as most beautiful person in the world, and before she picked up her Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, Lupita Nyong'o spoke at the Black Women in Hollywood event. The moving speech she gave as she picked up the award for Best Breakthrough Performance, holds a lesson on beauty for everyone.

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Photograph: Getty Images