She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu--the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.

A procedure that kills thousands of children and leaves women with a life of pain and complications due to their clitorus and labia being removed and sewn up so they are clean and ready for marriage often leaving a hole the size of a matchstick for peeing out of. Tačiau planuojamos priverstinės vestuvės buvo paskutinis lašas, paskatinęs ją, be jokio tikslaus plano, pabėgti iš gimtųjų kraštų. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.From a nomadic life in the Somali desert, to the most exclusive designer runways in the world – a wonderful dream.

That same year, she was appointed UN Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM). By age five, however, she had been introduced to FGM, the practice that would ensure her marriageability (and thus her marketability) in Somali culture. Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye, Arabic: واريس ديري‎) (born in 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist.

Waris is prepared to risk being killed by some fundamentalist because of all the things she has to tell. Joining the current rage for model memoirs is Dirie, a native of Somalia, who has for more than a decade stalked the world's catwalks and appeared in numerous glossy magazines.