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Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

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Liya Kebede
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 1
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Addis Abeba
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I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.
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My children are still young, but I try to talk to them about giving back and how important it is, just to look at the world, be invested in things, to be passionate about things, to have a dream.
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I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
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It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.
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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.
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We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.
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No other health disparity is so stark virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.
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A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.
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The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
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For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.
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In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.
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It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.
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What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.
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The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.
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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.
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In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.
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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?
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If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach it's exciting when it works out.
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If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.
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I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.
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