somalia: Mutilation Sparks Supermodel's Campaign

Supermodel Waris Dirie was a five-year-old child of the Somali desert when an old woman held her down and circumcised her with a rusty blade, sewing up her wounds with catgut and thorns. Now the internationally-renowned beauty whose face has graced countless magazines has turned her back on her lucrative career to campaign against the centuries-old practice of female genital mutilation which has left her scarred for life.