Former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Omowunmi shares her inspiring life story

20.03.2018 11:10

In life many people won't support your dreams or see reasons why you should partake in certain things because they feel you're not worthy of such things.

But life has always taught the ability to believe in oneself regardless how others interpret one's life journey.

Former Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria Omowunmi Akinnifesi, has shared an inspirational note of how she thrived beyond people's expectations and limits regarding her dreams.

According to Omowunmi, she has always been discouraged by friends who have always told her she can't succeed in many of her life choices because they feel she was inadequate for them all, but in the contrary she did succeeded in all of them.

She narrated in her post when she first thought of contesting for the MBGN, her friends told her she can't win because she wasn't pretty enough to compete with other contestants who were prettier

But she contested and won, same happened with when she was told she can't finish from Unilag with good grades because she is too focused with her modelling, Omowunmi graduated with an upper degree to the shame of many who thought otherwise.

She wrote: "Someone very very close to me once told me that it was impossible for me to win MBGN. "The other girls are way prettier than you. Are u blind?". Yet i won.

How can you win Miss Tourism International? "Look at Miss Russia's body?".... Yet I won.

"You can not win Miss B*kini International with your dark skin". Yet I won. In total 3 crowns. Yet i won.

Next was you can never finish Unilag with an Upper Class Division. You are too busy as MBGN. Then i finished with a 3.9 GPA. Yet I won.

Kings College London can never admit you Omowunmi. Forget applying because they only take certain kind of students. Then Cambridge, Imperial, UCL and Kings College sent me admission Letters. Oxford put me on their waiting list. Because i was told KCL was way out of my league i chose KCL. Plus i liked the fact that my High School was Queens College and my Uni was Kings College. Yet I won.

Back track High school at Queens College Lagos, i was told i wasn't good enough to be a school Prefect. Yet i became a Class Supervisor and a School prefect and won a Dancing Machine Award at our school's awards night . Yet I Won

Fast track when i decided to start a business and someone very close to me said "you know you are just not good at Business". Now they come to me for business advice. And i have 4 companies i run. Yet I won.

I never go the way people tell me to go. When i do i fail. I go the way my spirit directs. If you follow the words of people you will fall and remain stagnant. Follow your own heart and fail forward knowing you followed you. At the end of the day you face your death alone so what the hec. Lets run this race called life and run it unapologetically "

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According to Omowunmi it pays off when we believe in ourselves and work towards our dreams without weighing our abilities by the standards people have measured us with, to have the ability to live life unapologetically.

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