Meet Nyakim Gatwech, a South Sudanese model known as the “Queen of the Dark” for her incredible skin pigmintation. The 24-year-old star is breaking all the norms of the fashion industry and conventions for “traditional” beauty since she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“My chocolate is elegant,” she wrote on Instagram after an Uber driver told her she needed to bleach her skin if she wanted to be successful. Gatwech just laughed at him. “You won’t believe the kind of questions I get and the kind of looks I get for having this skin,” she wrote.
Take a look at some of her best work in the gallery below.