refugee

Celebrity Buzz She fled war in South Sudan and was scouted at a London fair. Alek Wek changed what a supermodel looks like Alek Wek was born in Wau, in what is now South Sudan, and fled civil war to London as a teenager. Scouted at a fair in Crystal Palace in 1995, she became one of the most influential models of the late 1990s and a voice for refugees.