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

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.

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?

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

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.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

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