Former Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria, Omowunmi Akinnifesi has taken to her Instagram page to share how she was discouraged in the pursuit of her dreams.
The model and entrepreneur revealed that she runs four companies despite many pessimists telling her she wasn’t good at business.
Akinnifesi listed diverse challenges she has faced in her life and how she overcame them.
She wrote: “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.”
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.
“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,” she wrote.
“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.”
Akinnifesi is currently the face of Nivea and is the creative director of her own brand, Omowunmi Clothing.
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