Supermodels Liya Kebede and Christy Turlington were recently honored at the 2013 Glamour Women of the Year Awards for their work on Infant Mortality. Both models were also named Glamour Women of the Year.
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Infant mortality issues are also happening right here in the USA. Cleveland, Ohio has an infant mortality rate that is worse than Sri Lanka and Botswana.
Please also watch the clip below.
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Uduak
“Around the world approximately 800 women die of childbirth-related causes every day. In 2003 Christy Turlington Burns could have been one of them: While giving birth to her daughter, Grace, she suffered a hemorrhage that, had she not received treatment, might have ended tragically. Growing up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede witnessed that tragic outcome far too often: “When a woman was pregnant, I knew there was a huge risk that she might die.”
Turlington Burns and Kebede share, on the surface, a career—as two of the world’s most celebrated models. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art once called Turlington Burns the Face of the 20th Century, and at 44, she’s still modeling for Calvin Klein Underwear; Kebede, 35, has graced the cover of American Vogue three times and is a face of L’Oréal.) But they are also mothers (each of a son and a daughter), advocates, and change agents. In our conversation, both spoke pas- sionately about the work they’re doing in tandem to make motherhood safer for women everywhere. . . ”
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