Former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Omowunmi Akinnifesi has recounted all the time's people told her she couldn’t achieve certain things yet she drove herself to succeed.
According to her, she was told she wouldn’t win MBGN, Miss Tourism International, and Miss Bikini International, yet she won all three.
She was also told she couldn’t get admitted to Kings College London, she couldn't graduate with a good result, and she couldn’t succeed at business, yet each time, she defied the naysayers and succeeded.
Sharing a throwback picture of herself in MBGN regalia, Omowunmi 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 Bikini 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
Backtrack 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 heck. Let's run this race called life and run it unapologetically ✌💪@iamwomanafrica#Gogetter #GodFirst #Spreadpositivity#Femaleentrepreneur #YetIWon#YetIAmstillWinning
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