Liya Kebede
Liya Kebede
Liya Kebede is an Ethiopian-born model, maternal health advocate, clothing designer, and actress. Forbes identified her the eleventh-highest-paid top model in the world in 2007, and she has appeared three times on the cover of U.S. Vogue...
NationalityEthiopian
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth1 March 1978
CityAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
CountryEthiopia
life met
It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
childbirth dying exactly gets kids losing people reason time
Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.
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It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.
best
I've been told the best way to make a sexy face is to say 'pruuune.'
buying kids love
I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
becoming bit worlds
There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.
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When I see Lemlem walking around New York City, it's just mind-boggling, because I know it came from this one man sitting and weaving this little product.
foot pregnant saying
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
children cancer heart
Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?
guarantees-that sides health-workers
We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.
foundation contribution behalf
I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.
children firsts young
When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.