Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model.

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3 and sold in marriage at 13, who fled from Africa a while later and finally became an American supermodel and is now, at age 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation (FGM).—Athina-90

Waris Dirie, born in Somalia in 1965, flees at 13 when she is sold into marriage as the man's fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, and then at McDonald's, where she is discovered and becomes an international top model. In 1997 she speaks up against female genital mutilation, to which she herself had been subjected at age 3.