Ajak Deng News & Updates

Model Ajak Deng Changes Her Mind About Retirement to Fight Industry Biases

Sundanese-Australian model Ajak Deng has decided to give modeling a second go, just days after she a...

Mar 01, 2016 • Yahoo

Black Model Ajak Deng Shares her Near Death Encounter With two White Policemen

The senseless killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the police officers across the countr...

Oct 26, 2020 • Essence

Model Ajak Deng Recants Her Retirement, Says She’ll Fight Colorism War for ‘Black Girls Like Me’

Fashion model Ajak Deng has decided that she’s going to continue on with her career in order to fi...

Mar 01, 2016 • The Root

Ajak Deng Returns to Modeling One Week After Announcing Retirement

"Giving up is easier, but who will fight the war that we are so in denial about? " she writes. By Sa...

Mar 01, 2016 • The Hollywood Reporter

Model Ajak Deng Says She's 'Officially Done With the Fashion Industry'

Since her debut in 2010, Sudanese model Ajak Deng has walked 14 seasons of New York—and internatio...

Feb 10, 2025 • Essence

Ajak Deng Quits Modeling Due to “Fakes” and “Lies”

The stunner — who has walked for Givenchy, Chloe, Lanvin and more — is giving up the gig and ret...

Feb 24, 2016 • The Hollywood Reporter

4 Reasons Ajak Deng Is A Model You Need To Know

Do you know this face?No? Well, the name Angelique ‘Ajak’ Deng may not mean anything to you now ...

Feb 03, 2011 • HELLO BEAUTIFUL

Ajak Deng Quits Modeling: 'I Can No Longer Deal with the Fakes and the Lies'

Hot on the news of Cindy Crawford’s graceful exit from modeling, the industry is losing another se...

Feb 24, 2016 • People

Geotag Trotting with Ajak Deng

Ajak Deng, a Sudanese model who spends her time globetrotting from South Sudan to Melbourne, Austral...

Jul 13, 2015 • W magazine

Ajak Deng leads at Lanvin

Last season designer Alber Elbaz sent out a flotilla of dark-haired dominatrixes ready to whip winte...

Oct 03, 2010 • Vogue Australia

Ajak Deng back modelling just a week after retiring

The Sudan-born beauty announced she was retiring from the profession on Wednesday, as she could no l...

Mar 02, 2016 • The Courier-Mail

Did supermodel Ajak Deng just quit because the industry is too racist?

Model Ajak Deng has announced she is fed up with the “fakes and the lies” that dominate the fash...

Feb 24, 2016 • nowtolove

Ajak Deng Chucks the Deuces to the Fashion Industry Because of the ‘Fakes and the Lies’

Ajak Deng’s cup runneth over. Suggested Reading Black Americans Respond to Possible Boots on the G...

Feb 24, 2016 • The Root