’A story that traverses continents, spans worlds of human experience and human pain ... Waris Dirie was a victim once, but she never will be again. She is still fighting, still using her beauty and courage to take what she has learned to try and put things right’
SUNDAY EXPRESS
’She was circumcised at five, fled an arranged marriage at 12, then became a PireUi girl in her teens. Now, Waris Dirie is an ambassador for the UN’
OBSERVER
’Born a Somalian nomad, by the time she made it as a top model, she’d survived genital mutilation and a face-off with a tiger ... She’s now a UN special Ambassador. Take a cue from Waris’s charm and courage’
COMPANY
’Her first job was for a Pirelli calendar shoot - with Terence Donovan - along with a young unknown girl from Streatham called Naomi Campbell ... Now author of a book, published in 14 languages, which has had such a powerful effect on Elton John that he has bought the movie rights’
THE TIMES
