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We eat to live.

From Alek Wek

I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.

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I am not really into buying a lot of expensive things.

From Alek Wek

When you give, you receive.

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It's a small world when you're from South Sudan.

From Alek Wek

London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.

From Alek Wek

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

From Alek Wek

I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.

From Alek Wek

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

From Alek Wek

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

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Alek Wek

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