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!

Helping others isn't a chore, it is one of the greatest gifts there is. I want to challenge the next generation of women to find a way to give back that inspires and fulfills them and weave it into their daily lives. If the next generation can learn that early on, we have a real chance to change the world.

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.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

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

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.

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