Courtesy: PEOPLEViola Davis graces the new issue of People magazine, on stands on Friday. In a cover story called “How I Found My Strength,” she discusses motherhood, marriage and how she overcame her early career struggles.
“In the beginning of my career, I handled rejection by personalizing it,” Davis explains. “For me, people were just cementing what I felt like I already knew about myself: that I wasn’t attractive, I didn’t have a commercial look, I wasn’t feminine enough… so I settled on that.”
However, Davis notes, “If I were to look back, there was never