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When I first started modeling, I realised I was very different from many of my colleagues, but I welcomed the opportunities my career in fashion offered me and the support from many inspiring individuals in the fashion industry.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Career Colleagues Different Fashion Fashion Industry First Individuals Industry Inspiring Many Me Modeling Offered Opportunities Realised Started Support Very Welcomed

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For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.

~Alek Wek

Topics: All Women Always Back Beautiful Each Embrace Goes Me Mother Other Should Sisters Taught Women Women Are

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Beauty should not be culturally relevant; it should be universal.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Beauty Relevant Should Universal

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I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Brothers Brothers And Sisters Children Eight Few Like Sisters

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I would love to continue to model but also have a family.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Also Continue Family Love Model Would

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Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud of is having totally evolved. I came here not knowing how to speak English, but I went to school and learned; I adapted to this new culture.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Adapted Arrived Born Came Civil Civil War Culture English Evolved Having Here How Knowing Learned London Most New Not Knowing Proud Refuge School Seek Speak Sudan Thing Totally War Where I Came I Was Born

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My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Am Children Considered Did Family Filled Grew Life Lot Middle-Class More My Life Nine Other People Seventh South Sudan Than Up Would I Am

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I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Beauty Corner Each Every Find Meet Planet Talk Them Women I Can

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Beauty does not mean one thing but not something else.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Beauty Does Else Mean One Thing Something Something Else Thing

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For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Kind Me Modesty Some You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Designer

Born: April 16th, 1977

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