Quotes by Alek Wek - Page 3

I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next look is, whether it's big blonde hair and blue eyes or green hair and dark eyes. That's fine so long as there isn't just one ideal image.
Alek Wek / Model
Believe
Dark
Eye
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When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.
Alek Wek / Model
Celebrate
Differences
Embrace
Empowering
Negativity
Sisters
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I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.
Alek Wek / Model
Civil War
Educate
Important Issues
Refugees
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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.
Alek Wek / Model
Design
Brooklyn
Documentaries
Paint
Quiet
Quiet Time
Sitting
Love Time Art
Love Art Time
Degree
Love Work Time
Model
Studying
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There are mothers who sew for six months to make a fashion collection - someone's grandmother, someone's sister. We come in and get paid to walk for 10 minutes at the end. Whenever I think about that, I realise it's not about me. I was just the one chosen to represent those women and sell the clothes.
Alek Wek / Model
Sister
Women
Chosen
Clothes
Fashion
Grandmother
Minutes
Months
Paid
Come
Women Walk Me
Collection
Represent
Sell
Walk
Realise
Sew
Whenever
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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.
Alek Wek / Model
Fashion
Normal
Not Talking
Relate
Rubbish
Door
Girl Next Door
Next Door
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My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that where you come from is very important because that's what makes you who you are. So for me, whatever I've gone through had profoundly shaped me; it has given me strength and unwavering faith.
Alek Wek / Model
Faith
War
Civil War
Despite
Dignity
Given
Horror
Mother
Taught
Unwavering
Came
Carry
Civil
Whatever
Instilled
Shaped
Profoundly
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When it’s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility for a greater number of people. I don’t do things that I will regret in the future. I tend to err on the side of caution. Not to mention the fact that the present world I reside in would not have been possible without my past. I am most proud of being able to represent my family and community with honour and dignity.
Alek Wek / Model
Past
Regret
Thinking
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In my country, families are raised as though they are one. Although I am from the Dinka tribe, my parents didn't raise us as the Dinka tribe. They raised us as the Wek family, in the way they believed their children should grow up. So when you leave, the first thing you think is the ones you left behind. It's natural to help them in any way you can. I found a way to support myself rather than asking my Mum to give me money. I would work before school and send money back to pay for their rent and food.
Alek Wek / Model
Children
Country
Growing Up
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