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Liya Kebede
Profession : Model
Birth : March 1, 1978
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I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.
Liya Kebede
What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.
Liya Kebede
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.
Liya Kebede
Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.
Liya Kebede
While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.
Liya Kebede
I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
Liya Kebede
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
Liya Kebede
In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.
Liya Kebede
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.
Liya Kebede
Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.
Liya Kebede
I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.
Liya Kebede
I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.
Liya Kebede
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.
Liya Kebede
I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.
Liya Kebede
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.
Liya Kebede
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
Liya Kebede
It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
Liya Kebede
I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
Liya Kebede
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
Liya Kebede
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.
Liya Kebede
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