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I've always really liked being active. I do Spinning classes, I run, I have a trainer, I do Pilates with my sister Shade.

Active Always Being Classes
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I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

Always Confident Definitely Feeling
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Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

Ate Day Friends Hard
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Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.

Closet Closets Dad Dress
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I have way too many jeans. But I never seem to have a top to wear.

Jeans Many Never Seem
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I really think if you're trying to look good, do something athletic. I have a little mini tramp, and sometimes I'll just try to jump for 20 minutes. It gets your blood circulating, and that always looks really pretty.

Always Athletic Blood Gets
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Just for daily wear, I love discovering new jeans companies.

Companies Daily Discovering I Love
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I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut.

Delivery Diet Doughnut Eat
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I've learned a lot from trainers over the years, but mainly that you need discipline to stay in the gym and out of the many fine cupcake emporiums on every corner.

Corner Discipline Every Fine
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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I love doing the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle, even on the days I can't finish it.
Crossword Days Doing Even
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For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'

Braces Call Cast Date
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I dream of playing Lady Cora's sister on 'Downton Abbey.'

Abbey Downton Abbey Dream I Dream
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There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

So much Can do Chance Nothing
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.

I think Women Very scared Celebrate
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

I learned Career Things Power over
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It’s about something greater. It’s about acceptance.
Marriage Equality Greater Acceptance
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A lot of times, we think we have to do it alone so we don’t appear weak, but it’s totally okay to ask for help

Times Think Appear weak Help
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It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

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

Africa Find Foot Grave
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It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Aid Always Make Sustainable
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I've been told the best way to make a sexy face is to say 'pruuune.'

Been Best Best Way Face
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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 Give His Make
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I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

Always Because Challenging Every
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The world needs our mothers.
Mothers Needs Our World
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I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

Always Am Behalf Contributions
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What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

About Acknowledged Am Being
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I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Available Birth Care Ethiopia
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Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

Abandoned Around Asking Could
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While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

Attending Blood Classes Covered
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Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

Africa Basic Brings Children
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Buying Closet Clothes Give
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Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.

Able Designs Doing Experience
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In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

Better Better Place Everybody Get
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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.

Always Connects Cross Daughter
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Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

Care Else Everything Everything Else
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I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

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

Become Career College Modeling
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First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

About About A Year Ambassador Became
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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.

Actually Because Doing Ethiopia
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Ages Been Childbirth Dying
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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.

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

Africa Desert Heat I Love
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I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.
Action Comedy Drama I Love
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It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.

Difficult Hand Life Life Story
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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 Grow
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I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
Been Child Film Films
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I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Always Chance Disappear Having
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There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Acting Always Becoming Bit
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I really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!

About Me Movie Really
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