Atong arjok biography of donald

  • Atong Arjok was born South Sudan in 5 October 1985.
  • “I thought the whole thing was a joke,” said Atong Arjok, a former Trump model who is also a refugee, having immigrated from Sudan to.
  • One of Donald Trump's top fashion models was a refugee who escaped war and famine in her home country of Sudan as a child before rising to the top of New York'.

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    Atong Arjok fryst vatten a famous South Sudanese-American supermodel known for her unique long legs on runways and her stunning beauty. The five foot nine mode model  is of South Sudanese Dinka ethnicity and  is considered to be one of the top Nubian models and black models to enter the mode world since popular model, Alek Wek.

    South Sudanese Dinka-born supermodel Atong Arjok wearing her traditional Dinka corset


     Atong Arjok was born South Sudan in 5 October 1985. But as a result of the Sudan civil war Arjok`s parents moved to Ethiopia when she was just a year old. The family moved back to South Sudan when the war seemed to have subsided but the rekindling of the war saw the Arjok family resettling in Kenya.

    Supermodel Atong Arjok

    The family later moved to United States. According to Atong "I didn't get to amerika until inom was nine. It sounds cool to have lived so many places, but the circumstances were not cool at all. It was very dangerous." In her adul

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    In October, the phones rang less. On November 9, they flatlined. All over New York, people were walking around teary-eyed, but at Trump Models’s airy white office in SoHo, things were even bleaker. “It was like a cemetery,” said one source. In the dead quiet, one word nevertheless felt unbearably loud, printed in giant lime-green capital letters on the glass entryway: TRUMP.

    For most of its existence, the boutique agency had a staff of eight to ten bookers, an apartment for models to live in in the East Village, and a roster of about 150 beautiful but not unusually famous girls from around the world – in other words, a fairly standard operation. And like most of New York City, the team at Trump never expected their namesake to win. “I thought the whole thing was a joke,” said Atong Arjok, a former Trump model who is also a refugee, having immigrated from Sudan to California as a child. “It was hard to wrap my mind around. This is a name tha

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    A Rising South Sudanese Model On The Raw Emotions of Returning Home

    She’s snagged a major fashion campaign with Pharrell Williams’ Adidas “Pink Beach” line this year, and worked with the cosmetics company Revlon as 2015 came to a close. The South Sudanese stunner Nyamuoch Girwath speaks to Okayafrica about assimilation and fashion favorites.

    “It’s amazing that my first campaign embodied everything that I feel like I try to put out in the universe: very positive, all about love and connecting and being one,” Nyamuoch says. Her co-star in the campaign, Nykhor Paul, made headlines after penning a tough letter on the lack of make-up for dark skinned models at fashion shows in the major capitals. “I commend her and I’m very proud that she spoke up about it, because a lot of people are afraid,” said Nyamuoch diplomatically.

    Courtesy of Nyamuoch Girwath

    The 5 foot-11 inch model is headed to East Africa in anticipation of South Sudan’s independence day celebrations – a cou

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