Alek wek net worth

1977—

Model, author, humanitarian

Sudanese model Alek Wek represents a fresh, 21st-century attitude from within the fashion industry and the images it sends out into the world about who or what is beautiful.

Wek, possessing far darker skin than her African-heritage supermodel predecessors, was called "the hottest face in fashion" by Newsweek, and her late 1997 appearance on the cover of one of the world's leading fashion magazines was a virtual media event in itself.

Like other top models, the Sudanese Wek is statuesque, but as a writer for People magazine enthused, "few have her smile, and none have Wek's dramatically cropped hair, cherubic cheeks and flawless coal-black skin that has set the modeling world abuzz." A keen businesswoman, Wek used her singular fame on the catwalk and magazine covers to launch her own accessories and handbag company, and to call for humanitarian aid for her homeland.

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A writer for the New York Times