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When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.

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You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.

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When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking,' because I didn't look like the girl next door. But I was just normal. I was the girl next door. There were people in high fashion I could better relate to who were doing something more interesting and not talking this sort of rubbish.

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Going on safari in South Africa was hardcore but a lot of fun - though my friend Maura was absolutely freaking out about all the bugs in her hair and having to pee in the sand.

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The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

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I like unique little boutique hotels, such as Blakes in London.

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My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

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I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.

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I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.

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When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

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