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Liya Kebede Biography

Liya Kebede (Amharic: ሊያ ከበደ; born 1 March 1978) is an Ethiopian-born model, maternal health advocate, clothing designer, and actress. Forbes identified her as the eleventh-highest-paid top model in the world in 2007, and she has appeared three times on the cover of U.S. Vogue.

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I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

Dream, Impossible, Listen, People, Say, Work

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.

Changes, Leap, Ordinary, Powerful, Trying, World

For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.

Accessories, Invest, Pairs, Pieces, Trendy

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

Children, Healthy, Mother, School, Survive

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Stories, Chance, Kind, Having, Story

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Helping Others, Helping, Chores, Greatest, Gifts

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.

Accepted, Lesson, Mother, Stayed, Thinking

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!

Children, Fashion, Like, Time, Want

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Aid, Aids, Sustainable, Tricky, Trying

I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

Behalf, Contribution, Contributions, Foundation, Touched

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

Desert, Heat, Nice

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.

Children, Dream, Giving, Invested, Look, Talk

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Donate, Giving, Opportunity, Thing

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

Design, Easy, Gravitate, Schouler, Tend, Wang

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

Children, Film, Grew, Grew Up, Life, Part

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.

Aware, Christian, Ethiopia, Growing Up, Kids

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.

Daughter, Exist, Mom, Nice, Passed, Possible

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Brand, Brands, Important, Personality, Reflects

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, Like, Military, Mother

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U. S. international aid funding.

Aid, Aids, Core, President, Priorities

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