Liya Kebede Is a 'Desert Flower'

The Ethiopian model-turned-actress takes on the real-life role of model-turned-activist Waris Dirie in her new film. Dirie was sold in to marriage as a young girl in Somalia where genital mutilation was a common cultural practice. (March 18)

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[MsNeoDraven]

@JogBird No it's not a double standard. The female anatomy is way different than the males. If a man get circumcised he can still use his penis. If a woman gets cut her whole vagina it taken out and stitched up so tight that a man has to use a razor blade to cut her back open in order to have sex and you can not reverse it. The vagina is completely gone compared to a man.

[186713]

This isn't new, it's been happening for ages in Somalia

[eastafricanbreeze]

@186713

It happens in the Horn of Africa and Sub-Sahahran Africa. It's an Ancient Egyptian practice, so obviously the places that has historically ties with Ancient Egypt, still practice. It is not just Somalia.

SUB-sAHARAH aFRICA. aREAS WHERE THE aNCIENT egYPTIANS

[samsul0825]

If it happend or don't happends in somalia it has nothing to do whit the country you'r mom choose it okay im somalian and im not circumcised so do't blame it on the country and the reason they circumcised women its just so they wont get rape or something and is not sunnah when its about girls only when its boys its sunnah so blame it on the parents you can say NO or YES ....

[somrazy3]

@WupeViasco shes beautiful too, she should make more vidoes :) i love Liya x

[Kapiteinmajid]

hahahah Wallahi waa waxaybo inta Badan Dhaca ujedada filmka waa Kelmada ugu Daran oo ay Raga Soomaleyeed ku Dhibaan dumarka naa Isku Xishood iyo Hana Cebayn Liya si Cajiib ah bay u Meteshay kk

[WupeViasco]

ahh she so cute, she looks like a bunny! lol

[WupeViasco]

@pemchem

Ok cool!

[pemchem]

@WupeViasco No, I'm white, green eyes, blond hair. Dad's Swedish, Mom is American, so that's like a mix of Irish, French, some Jewish, some Native American.

[WupeViasco]

@pemchem

Yeah Ethiopian women are so cute sometimes! Are you Ethiopian?

[pemchem]

@WupeViasco Yes she does, a bit! It's endearing.

[WupeViasco]

@pemchem

She does though? Doesn't she?