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ajak deng just quit modelling because the industry is too racist
Since Ajak Deng was spotted in 2008, she's been one of Australia's most successful model exports. Over almost a decade she's walked for Dior, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Marc Jacobs, Chloe and Jean Paul Gaultier and starred in an armful of global campaigns. Despite her success, Ajak announced on Instagram today that she is "officially done with the fashion industry. " She explained that she is giving up her career because she "can no longer deal with the fakes and the lies. My life is too short for this dramatic life." Adding that she planned to move back to Australia to "live the life that I fully deserved. Which is real life." Despite her impending flight back home, don't expect Ajak to appear on Australian runways either. The model's manager Stephen Bucknell followed her announcement, commenting that she'd always struggled to book work in Australia because the industry's bias towards white models: "They'll book th...
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