S
YOUR SAY
ome women
are go-getters.
Others are
business-minded.
A select few use
personal struggles
as building blocks
for personal success.
Actress and music entrepreneur
Lunden De’Leon is all of these women.
According to dictionary.com, an
entrepreneur is a person “who organizes
and manages any enterprise, especially
a business, usually with considerable
initiative and risk.”
It was then that she decided to chase
her dreams and chase them she did.
Homeless in Hollywood with a $200
price tag firmly clamped onto her
name; De’Leon was in trouble.
De’Leon’s embellishing smile would have
accompanied this impressively quick
definition in an ideal world.
Through a roommate, De’Leon’s life
was offset in ways she could never
imagine; things began looking up.
After attending a model calling,
De’Leon —primarily motivated to
overcome her ‘hungry and penniless’
state— booked the audition and
scored a one-year modeling contract
the very same day.
Barbados-born and South
Carolina-bred, De’Leon was entitled to
her fair share of successes and failures
before she constructed herself as the
present-day powerhouse. Landing a
brief stint as a Burger King employee
during her teenage years was just the
beginning. De’Leon soon succumbed to
the entertainment bug after witnessing
her gospel-singing father performing.
Not long after that, De’Leon made her
small screen debut on the hit series,
Vital Signs, which was filmed in Los
Angeles but broadcast in Germany.
She starred as a young woman trying
to make it in the United States —
a storyline not too far off from the