IF the love doesn’t inspire you to push boundaries and move fearlessly, we don’t want it!
South Sudanese Top Model Aweng Ade Chuol and her wife Alexus Ade-Chuol braved the seemingly endless sea of criticism against African LGBTQ+ communities by posing on Elle UK’s January 2021 issue together.
The newlyweds are the picture of love and happiness as they pose, kissing, for the magazine’s new year release.
In an interview with Yahoo Life! , Elle UK’s Editor-In-Chief Farrah Storr said of the groundbreaking cover, “Glossy magazines have traditionally put heterosexual couples on covers, but rarely have I seen same-sex couples embraced and celebrated in the same way. At Elle, we wanted simply to show a young couple in love at the end of a very tough year, and Aweng and Lexy seemed like the most natural fit in the world.”
In the cover story, the 22-year-old model detailed the
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