The Remarkable Journey of Supermodel Alek Wek

Back in 1995 in London, a teenager was out shopping one day when a stranger tapped her on the shoulder. That stranger was a modeling scout, and before long, that teenager was signed as a professional model.

And it wasn’t long after that that Alek Wek was seen on covers of major international magazines. She was MTV’s Model of the Year in 1997.

But what makes her story even more incredible and extraordinary is that she had only been in London for four years, after her family fled a life of poverty in their homeland, civil war-torn Sudan.

In this 2007 interview Alek talks about her life and career.

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