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"Liya Kebede and Christy Turlington Burns are Women of the Year because... &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s maddening that women are dying for no good reason. When women like Christy and Liya get organized on their behalf, things change.&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212;Bono, singer and activist Sisters in strength: &amp;quot;They share not just beauty,&amp;quot; says Chelsea Clinton, &amp;quot;but a common cause and drive.&amp;quot; Around the world approximately 800 women die of childbirth-related causes every day. In 2003 Christy Turlington Burns could have been one of them: While giving birth to her daughter, Grace, she suffered a hemorrhage that, had she not received treatment, might have ended tragically. Growing up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Liya Kebede witnessed that tragic outcome far too often: &amp;quot;When a woman was pregnant, I knew there was a huge risk that she might die.&amp;quot; Turlington Burns and Kebede share, on the surface, a career&amp;amp;#8212;as two of the world&amp;#x27;s most celebrated models. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art once called Turlington Burns the Face of the 20th Century, and at 44, she&amp;#x27;s still modeling for Calvin Klein Underwear; Kebede, 35, has graced the cover of American Vogue three times and is a face of L&amp;#x27;Or&amp;amp;#233;al.) But they are also mothers (each of a son and a daughter), advocates, and change agents. In our conversation, both spoke pas- sionately about the work they&amp;#x27;re doing in tandem to make motherhood safer for women everywhere. Turlington Burns founded Every Mother Counts, which helps vulnerable women around the world have safer births. &amp;quot;This really is her life&amp;#x27;s work,&amp;quot; says husband Edward Burns. &amp;quot;And 13 years in, I know that if Christy says she&amp;#x27;s going to do something, it happens.&amp;quot; Kebede, a former World Health Organization ambassador for maternal and child health, started the Liya Kebede Foundation to support maternal health care throughout Ethiopia, and the results are impressive: In one health center she supports, hospital deliveries increased more than 50 percent in one year, proving that if resources are available, women will use them. &amp;quot;I can say that she is saving lives&amp;amp;#8212;confidently,&amp;quot; notes her agent and friend Kyle Hagler. In my travels, I have seen how daunting this issue can be. But as Dr. Helene D. Gayle, president of the nonprofit CARE, says, &amp;quot;When women like Christy and Liya invest themselves, they make the world safer for women and children. It&amp;#x27;s that simple&amp;amp;#8212;and that remarkable.&amp;quot; Read more: &amp;amp;bull; Glamour Women of the Year 2013 &amp;amp;bull; The Malala Fund"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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