
"People actually think I'm Alek when I'm walking down the street," said new model Grace Bol in 'New York Magazine'. "Several people have chased me down just to get my autograph, and even when I explain to them that I'm not Alek, they think I'm lying! All I tell them is 'I'm Grace.'"
Bol, 21, who stands at 5-foot, 10-inches, and the 5-foot, 11-inch Alek Wek, 34, have similar striking features such as long limbs and dark ebony skin. Both were born in Sudan but Bol immigrated to and was discovered in Kansas as a child.
She's a tomboy by nature who was encouraged to model by her peers in the Midwest and loves food. "I don't know about other models, but I eat," she said. "I just try and eat healthy by eating all types of foods. Once a week, though, I will eat whatever I want."
In five years, she hopes to return to Sudan and provide jobs to those struggling. "I'm confident I would never be one of those people who spend their money on materialistic things," she explained. "I want to go back home and help people."
Bol has already walked the Fall 2011 Givenchy, Vivienne Westwood and Maison Martin Marigela shows and is starting off her career in high fashion on the right foot.




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By: rene on 6/20/2011 1:08PM
Thats just what i was thinking.
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By: alex on 6/18/2011 6:31PM
I will agree that both of these women look nicer in their natural state.
But I am still sympathetic for the black women who do get their hair "done", wear weaves, cosmetics, etc. because most do this for men's attention. Black men in particular.
Of course we know it doesn't work. Those of us who have figured this out don't waste time and money doing all that extra stuff.
Men in general are not attracted to black women but at least we try to soften our features and look "presentable".
Other black women may say they do these things to simply look good.
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By: Oh...but wait! on 6/18/2011 9:32PM
I agree with overdoing the weaves, and cosmetics, BUT, it's okay for a black woman to enhance our prettiest features, do our own hair, and care about how we look! We can do soooo much with our hair because of the way it is.
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By: Mike on 6/20/2011 10:41AM
She has asian like features, like so many africans yet most cant see past the color. God didn't make it easy for all to see i guess.
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By: youguysareblind on 6/19/2011 8:58PM
Those two women are ugly. They need a weave or something. I dont care what the other comments say those two women are not pretty at all. natural or not!!! EWWWW...
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By: Watcher Watchmen on 6/20/2011 5:02AM
** DEMORALIZATION OF BLACK WOMEN, “CHALLENGED” **
Among other challenging remarks, our more general response is to a particular postulation. We ask to which "General" class of men are in reference AND presumed to represent “Men In General” being assumed not to find Black Women attractive?
Which group of men “in general” are in reference?
The "Eurocentralized" ones?
Because that's about the "ONLY" reason they'd feel that way in opposition to that which is in “THEIR OWN IMAGE” yet along against their “OWN” opposite sex at that!
The blinding cloth pulled over their eyes wasn’t placed there internally, but externally.
Else what you’ve assessed of them would have already “self-occurred” long before being coercions through eurocentralism.
But you can give all thanks to the multi billion-dollar world advertisement campaigns that are full of over-sensationalized Eurocentric ideologies. (Any ethnicity with enough capital can do this). The resulting "Desire" of a women type, within that kind of paradigm, is verifiably more due to the programming from the resulting social construct, more so than it would be by “Natural Selection” according to the basic laws of human nature.
Obviously “Blacks” are not the mirrored images of such white social constructs or paradigm and therefore are more likely to become the spectacle of demoralization within such systems because of their apparent physical/visual differences.
But as Blacks continue their Repair, Recover and Rebuild of what was Economically, Socially, Spiritually, Morally, Academically lynched, beaten, whipped and raped out of them over the course of several generations, they “WILL” eventually “Over-Come” all the daily bombardments of racist pestilences, by having achieved so much inexorable progress to the point where those white pesky psychotically racist perpetrators and their cohorts will lose all credibility and/or appear far too silly and immature to be further taken seriously. Many people seem to have boogieman images of blacks, black men in particular, injected into their heads by racist whites who then spanks it around to set it in motion racing around within those heads and causing many to respond to those black imaginary boogieman wherever they see blacks in general, so impactingly so, that they move to the point of actually believing that those “Implanted Imaginary Boogieman Images” are real, so much so, that the reactions they “provoke” from blacks encountered, are seen as confirmations in support of their suspicions, rather than rightfully seen as a “reaction” to what was provoked.
Blacks have also increasingly become the “Doormats” for practically everyone (namely whites) looking for some kind of “thing” (or object) to wipe the perversions and/or distortions of themselves off upon, as a means of drawing attention away from their own habitual iniquities.
This is the results of racist whites who’ve proceed to the point of downloading and uploading “Their Views” into the minds of all those who’re oiled and programmed as automatons within a fundamentally racist paradigm.
But all this racist nonsense stems form nowhere else in the world except within and around places where racist whites coexists.
(Which in itself speaks volumes.)
Blacks have endured for generations to date, such random forms of white psychotically racist pestilences.
Therefore, these “anti-black-antics” are purely parroted echoes of a white fundamentally racist paradigm and from which these parroting automatons are the lingering byproducts.
Else the views as to how someone is “supposed” to look, wouldn’t be limited by such Eurocentrically tailored restrictions.
These psychotically racist xenophobic imbeciles have the audacity to mock blacks for remembering the past, while they themselves perpetuates on a daily bases that which reminds blacks of it.
(That’s so pathetically stupid and they’re apparently oblivious of their fool heartedness.)
However, those who aren’t trapped (or lost) within that kind of box, DO realize that Beauty is in many forms as it is in many colors and the most basic or common denominator of beauty is “Neatness” or being “Well Manicured” and is completely indiscriminate of ethnicity.
Whereas, one can take any humankind from anywhere in the world at any point in time and/or at any state of condition(s), manicure them in a general sense and they become more attractive than they were moments before. Any relative conditioning beyond this point is likely dictated by the social construct within which the “make-over” or “make-up” occurs.
But because looking or being “Well Manicured” is a universal language, it really doesn’t matter the ethnicity of whoever appears to look well manicured as they’ll more likely be “universally acknowledged” accordingly by default.
Rejections, Objections, Denials and more liken to these, in the form of “Second Thoughts”, may later follow one’s own first approvals due to propaganda-based programming against certain targeted ethnicities later realized in view after the initial observation of approval.
Contrary to racist-rhetoric based judgments, these two black women as with countless others, are all naturally beautiful and if maintained with healthy eating habits and keeping fit, they’d look as beautiful and more, far longer than any of their white counterparts of same age, regardless of same diet and/or method of exercise.
By the physiological comparison between Blacks and Whites, scientifically speaking, the otherwise genetically recessive genes of Whites will always “involuntarily” be their own undoing by the laws of science and nature which is ungoverned or dictated by what one believes or want to believe, or by best guesses from kitchen-moms, rocking-chair dads, Racist rhetoric Over-The-Dinner-Table, wishful thinking or other self-pacifying assumptions that are reaching for refutation justification.
“Melanin” is among the unsung reasons why life as you all know it, exists and more.
Need proof?
That’s easy!
Trying giving birth completely stripped of melanin and see how far you get!
If anywhere at all!
Or, simply consult with your physicians for more info!
(Inconspicuously)
The underlying moral here?
If blacks are selected for deionization, the attempt loses its credibility when only negativity is hammered forward while ignoring or downplaying the positive parts, because one knows it will challenge their demoralizing attempts.
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By: jan on 6/20/2011 12:11PM
both ladies looks intriguing but nothing alike their faces are totality different and for one to say she is mistakenly for the other no way thanks for trying to look like
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By: amina48 on 6/21/2011 12:53AM
There was a natural fashion show in Ghana last year, , weaves, false eyelashes or fake nails allowed ! Interesting concept
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By: Watcher Watchmen on 6/21/2011 12:36PM
"Natural" in terms of "Culturally"
Africans were always and still are known for their "African Arts" So much so, that to hear any art form preceded by the word, "African", automatically sets the mode and expectation for something relative to that. Whether it is "Make-Up", paintings, attire and practically anything else, as it would be for any other ethnicity in reference by their associated ethnic subscript.
In this respect, a "Fashion Show" in Ghana may very well allow accentuating ornaments such as "Fake Eyelashes", "Fake Fingernails", Face paintings - More applicably known as "Make-Up" and more.
But whatever the choices of ornaments selected, it yet encircles a common Ghanaology!.
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By: amina48 on 6/21/2011 2:07PM
sorry i meant NO weaves etc. allowed in the natural fashion show in Ghana..
I notice there are more "color struck "younger people today and more self- hate.May be due to media (rappers & others dissing Black females.
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