Adwoa Aboah
Adwoa Aboah the 2017 Model of the Year, according
to models.com, and the 2018 runner up. Aboah has roots in Ghana but was raised
in England by her parents, a fashion photographer agent mother and a location
scout father. Yet even with those connections, a younger Adwoa Aboah would have never
thought she'd one day be on the cover of Vogue. "I was unsure of myself,
and lost, a young girl who had no idea who Adwoa was," she told the magazine
as she discussed her embarrassment of her natural afro as a child.
Adwoa Aboah founded the Gurls Talk organization in 2017 which
focuses on facilitating female driven dialogue. Adwoa was inspired by her own
struggles with mental health and drugs. Aboah told Elle, "I've been lucky
enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an
activist." Adwoa Aboah is a superstar on and off the catwalk.
