Barbz, assemble! Nicki Minaj served as a highly-anticipated guest speaker at Vogue ’s Forces of Fashion event in New York City today. The star sat down with Eva Chen, the vice president of fashion at Meta, to discuss everything from motherhood and fashion—to recently breaking records with her “Pink Friday 2 World Tour,” the highest-selling female rap tour ever . ( Watch it on the Vogue app here .
) Minaj joined a star-studded lineup of speakers including makeup legend Pat McGrath and designers Victoria Beckham, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Simon Porte Jacquemus, among others. But there’s only one queen of rap! So below, see all of the highlights from Minaj’s Forces of Fashion talk. On originally wanting to be an actor I was very disappointed that I didn’t become a big, huge famous actress within two years of graduating high school.
I told everybody in my school, by the time I’m 19, I’m going to be the new Halle [Berry] and Jada [Pinkett Smith]. I was obsessed with them. But I realized that when you want to be an actor, you have to get up really early in the morning, and go on these things called casting calls.
I was like, I don’t want to do all of this. It takes a lot of commitment. That’s why when I meet actors, I always pull them aside.
I did that to Margot Robbie when we were at the Barbie premiere. I was like, “I’m really proud of you, because I know how much this takes to be an actress, and to be doing these huge leading roles.” On her earliest jobs.