Lupita Nyong'o and Her Mom Are Basically Twins (and an Amazing Duo)—See the Pic!

Oscar winner Instagrammed a side-by-side photo revealing their similarities

By Francesca Bacardi Feb 11, 2015 5:43 PMTags
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It's official: Lupita Nyong'o and her mother are the same person.

While posing for pics for her spread in Lucky magazine, the Oscar winner shared a split photo of herself form the shoot and of her mother from 1983, and the results are pretty crazy! The mother-daughter duo looks exactly alike, as if they are twins!

"Like mother (1983), like daughter (2015) #behindthescenes @luckymagazine @lancomeusa #OhToBeHalfTheWomanMyMumIs! #bts," she captioned the pic.

Seriously, have you ever seen anything like it?! The genes in that family are absolutely stunning. Her beautiful mom, who appears to be wearing no makeup in her throwback photo, wouldn't allow her daughter to dress her face in beauty products, the 12 Years a Slave actress revealed to Lucky, available Feb. 17.

Lupita said she was upset by it growing up, but now she appreciates that rule more than ever.

"My mother has never ever worn a drop of makeup in her life, not even at a wedding," she shared. "Honestly, my mother's outlook was hard for me to take when I was a teenager and wanted to experiment."

She added, "But in the end I appreciated it, because today I can look in a mirror with no makeup on and love myself."

She also dished to Glamour magazine that her close relationship with her "loving, supportive "family" helped her get over believing that her darker-colored skin would make her less beautiful in the eyes of others.

"...My mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features," she told the publication. "She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.

"Beautiful people have many advantages," she adds, "but so do friendly people...i think beauty is an expression of love."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves!

She gave the magazine (and readers) one other nugget of truth about why physical beauty shouldn't matter, saying, "Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go. We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse."

Preach!