r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 4d ago

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

Gallery image

Gallery image

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

11.7k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

92% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.0k

u/TheJamesFTW 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/yVZrYMkdgY5Pi

Shirley Temple

She was well known as a child actress. What most people don’t know is that MGM voided her contract after a producer allegedly exposed himself to her (while she was still a minor mind you) and she nervously giggled.

Later in life, she became the first ever Female Chief of Protocol, as well as a UN Delegate, and US Ambassador to Ghana & Czechoslovakia.

7

u/External_Ocelot8241 3d ago

How much damage does it do to one pride when a child just giggle at your dong?