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
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?
fashion children want
I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless but still chic!
mother children school
Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.
mother powerful children
The message of our campaign is "Make every mother and child count". This campaign is not just about health. It is also a powerful call for radical progress in women's rights and the rights of their children. Too often, the health of mothers and children does not count. In too many parts of the world, they are forgotten.
children world east-africa
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.
children film grew
I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
mother children military
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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.
aid health maternal obama president
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.
available ethiopia gave given might mom proper survived
I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.
ambassador became decided goodwill
First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.
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.