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

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

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!

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.

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.

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.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.