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Adut Akech Is On A Mission To Prove That ‘Black Women Are Beautiful’

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Adut Akech is carving out her path as a supermodel on a journey to bigger things. Akech immigrated to Australia at age seven as a refugee from South Sudan. “It was the first time I was in a space with people who didn’t look like me, people who weren’t used to seeing people like myself,” Akech explains in the August 2021 cover issue of ELLE.

RELATED: KSI’s Keys To YouTube & Music Supremacy, The Black Experience “From a young age, I just told myself that I needed to grow a tougher skin to avoid all this outside noise, but also to accept that this is who I am.

This is how God made me and that’s not going to change any time soon, or ever, to be honest.” For Akech, modelling is a means to a greater end.

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