South Sudanese model Aweng Chuol got married to her fiancé Alexis weeks after the couple got engaged.

Aweng, who was born in Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana and moved to Sydney, Australia aged 7, shared pictures from the wedding on social media to announce their marriage.

The 21-year-old New York-based model is a law student when she is not walking the runways of the fashion capitals.

Aweng took to Twitter to share a photograph of herself and her wife and captioned it, ‘Married my best friend today. I am. GEEKED’