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I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
I would love to continue to model but also have a family.
I'm an artist at heart.
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.
I've eight brothers and sisters - five girls, four boys. I am the seventh.
I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.
If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.
In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.
It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
It's a small world when you're from South Sudan.
It's an awful feeling, being hungry.
It's sometimes tiring to get off a long-haul flight and go straight to the studio for a shoot, but if you really plan everything well, you can get so much out of combining travel with work.
Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.
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.
Many live to eat, instead of the other way around.
My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
My family is the most important thing to me.
My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.
My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.
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