Liya Kebede
📖Biography
Liya Kebede is an Ethiopian-born supermodel, designer and maternal health advocate who has appeared on the cover of U.S. Vogue three times. She has worked with numerous fashion designers such as YSL, Roberto Cavalli, Louis Vuitton, L’Oreal, etc. She became the world’s 11th highest-paid top model as per Forbes in 2007. She founded the Liya Kebede Foundation (LKF) in 2005, whose mission is to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality in Ethiopia and around the world. Liya was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She was discovered at her school by a film director and introduced to a French modeling agent. She married Kassy Kebede in 2000, and the couple had one son and one daughter, before getting separated in 2013. They have publicly split in 2015.