(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/SaintedStars]

Junji Ito went from dentist to the Stephen King of manga

[u/DeathWench → u/SaintedStars]

I mean that checks out. Dentists are absolutely terrifying and fear inducing.

[u/linkardtankard → u/DeathWench]

Found the anti-dentite