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Waris Dirie

Somali model, author, actress, and activist (born 1965)

Waris Dirie
Dirie in 2018
Born	(1965-10-21) 21 October 1965 (age 59) Galkayo, Somalia
Occupation(s)	Model, social activist, author, actress, UN Special Ambassador and lawyer. (1997–2003)
Title	Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur
Children	2

Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye; born 21 October 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM). From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special ambassador against FGM. In 2002 she founded her own organization in Vienna, the Desert Flower Foundation. She has won numerous awards recognizing her work on eradicating FGM, including the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2007).

Born in Somalia, she moved to London where she began her modeling career. She was a model for top brands such as Chanel, Levi's, L'Oréal and Revlon. As a model, Dirie was the first black woman to appear in an Oil of Olay advertisement. In 1987, Dirie played a minor role in the James Bond film The L

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Desert Flower
1998 book by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller
For other uses, see Desert flower (disambiguation).
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad is an autobiographical book written by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller,^[1] published in 1998 about the life of Somali model, Waris Dirie.
Summary
Despite suffering female genital mutilation (FGM) at the age of five, and its life-long consequences, Waris Dirie escaped from her native Galkayo, Somalia, fleeing to Mogadishu to escape an arranged marriage. Moving with relatives to London, she worked for a while at a McDonald's and was discovered by chance by fashion photographer Terence Donovan. She continued via modelling in film and fashion to a stage where she was considered a supermodel. It was at this point that, with Miller, she wrote this autobiography. Shortly afterwards she became a UN ambassador for the abolition of FGM.^[1]^[2]
Publication
Film adaptation
In 2009, the book was adapted into a film of the same name. Produced by Peter Herrmann