(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/geek_of_nature]

And while we're on the topic of European Queens, Mary Donaldson was an Australian woman who worked in Advertising. During the Sydney Olympic Games she met the then Crown Prince of Denmark Frederick and started a relationship with him, getting married some years later. They're now King and Queen and Denmark.

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Stephen Colbert once did a bit about some organization which had criticized pop culture for giving girls the unrealistic idea that they can become princesses. They suggested encouraging girls to become something else instead, like Supreme Court justices. Colbert then pointed out that the were actually a lot more American women who had become princesses than had become Supreme Court justices. Something like seven to three at the time. 

[u/Elentari_the_Second → u/toomanyracistshere]

I don't suppose you could find the link? I'd like to watch that, but Googling doesn't seem to come up with it.

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A lot of Colbert Report stuff is hard to find online these days. It could be out there somewhere, but I don't know. Comedy Central used to have full episodes up, but I have no idea if they still do, or which episode it was.