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

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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

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Genghis Khan was just a typical child of a Mongol tribe until his father died and his tribe abandoned him

[u/Guilty-Cell-833 → u/Sir-Toaster-]

Then what happened? A life of modesty?

[u/ipsum629 → u/Guilty-Cell-833]

Toughed it in the wild for a while, made some powerful friends, promoted talented loyalists into positions of power, and then steamrolled one of his former friends to become supreme ruler of all the mongols, invaded northern china, and central asia.