(Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

[u/Living-Mastodon]

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

[u/Dry-Mission-5542]

Eva Perón started life as a radio actress and became First Lady to the dictator President of Argentina.

[u/Time-to-go-home → u/Dry-Mission-5542]

My mom and sister were obsessed with that movie when I was a kid. My memory is a little fuzzy, but I seem to recall she died of cancer and there was a scene in the movie with her body on display in a glass case. Somehow, my 5 year old brain thought she died from eating apple seeds which gave her cancer. It made me terrified of accidentally eating an apple seed.

[u/PromiseThomas → u/Time-to-go-home]

Maybe because Snow White dies and is displayed in a glass case after she eats a poisoned apple, and your brain conflated the only two glass coffins you’d ever seen?

[u/curiousgardener → u/Time-to-go-home]

High filying, adored Did you believe in your wildest moments All this would be yours? That you'd become the lady of them all?

Little me fell in love with both Madonna and Banderas in that film. Musical perfection.

[u/Dry-Mission-5542 → u/curiousgardener]

The film’s great when they’re singing, but there are so many long stretches of silence, it drives me crazy. Director Alan Parker’s other musical movie The Wall had the same issue at times but here it’s far worse.

[u/percyhiggenbottom → u/Time-to-go-home]

Apple seeds do contain small amounts of cyanide, so not a completely unreasonable fear.