Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o is all over social media today – after her most recent red carpet appearance for the new Black Panther movie Wakanda Forever. And Media Take Out has confirmed that fans are surprised at her weight gain.
And some suspect that her “weight gain” which all seems to have occurred below the waist, may have been the result of a recent surgery.
We reached out to people close to Lupita, who told Media Take Out that rumors of her getting surgery are “ridiculous.” And while we agree that her new curves look to be natural, that hasn’t stopped thousands of folks all across Black Twitter from alleging that her new cakes are fakes.
Here’s the video that got people talking:
Lupita made her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the play Eclipsed (2015), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She went on to perform a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019) and a voice role as Raksha in The Jungle Book (2016). Nyong’o’s career progressed with her role as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Black Panther (2018) and its sequel (2022) and her starring role in Jordan Peele’s horror film Us (2019).
Aside from acting, Nyong’o supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment, working for women’s and animal rights. In 2014, she was named the most beautiful woman by People. In 2019, Nyong’o wrote a children’s book named Sulwe, which became a number-one New York Times Best-Seller. She also received nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for narrating two episodes of the docu-series Serengeti. In 2020, Nyong’o was named one of Africa’s 50 Most Powerful Women by Forbes.
