Nigerian model Ngozi Ugo, who has been modelling professionally since 2006, recently spoke to LaizaLounge about how her career began and why she chose to model: “I have always been inclined to fashion from my tender years and sticking around my mother also influenced me a great deal,” she said. “Although a medical doctor, she always sewed her clothes and ours by herself. This trained my eyes to see the details in clothes and fabrics. I could always tell a badly sewn clothe from afar. Growing in such environment gave me the foundation for fashion, and that was how it all started.”