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
mother our-world poverty
We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.
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.
mother being-a-mother mothers-day
What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.
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.
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.
came man sitting weaving york
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.'
life met
It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.