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AlekWek knows how it feels to go hungry.

The model grew up in Southern Sudan during the civil war and her family survived off food their mother had grown in the garden - when there was any.

So it's no wonder the model is baffled by eating habits in the modelling world - an industry she joined soon after moving to London, aged 14.

Speaking of her job as a model (right), Alek Wek said: 'In this world, I found, many people were hungry too, but for different reasons'

Speaking of her job as a model, Wek said: 'It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

'In this world, I found, many people were hungry too, but for different reasons.

'They wanted their bodies to look a certain way, whether their bodies were meant to or not. They chose not to eat.'

Wek, who now lives in the U.S., is equally shocked by the huge portion sizes.

'Many live to eat, instead of the other way around,' she said.

'In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag, to bring the leftovers home.

'We eat to live': In Sudan, where Wek was born, mothers struggle to be able to feed their own children

'My ex-boyfriend suggested more than once that I cut this out, as he found it embarrassing. (Perhaps that’s why he is no longer my boyfriend.) I told him, "What’s embarrassing is that I should have so much more than others".'

The model now talks to schoolchildren about famine - in the hope that they will have a more healthy relationship with food and will think more globally.

In the Sudan and its surrounding countries there are mothers who do not have enough breast milk to nurse their own children.

Now children in the U.S. are learning that, in Wek's words, 'There’s one thing we all share: We eat to nurture ourselves, to feel stronger.

'We eat to live', she says.

If only she could pass on the same message to the modelling industry;