In a way, however, Dirie was lucky estimates suggest that one in four girls die during the procedure, which is common in parts of Africa and is practiced in 28 countries around the world. I wanted Mama to be proud of me." Proud, for her parents had told her there were bad things between her legs and they had to be removed.
"I still remember the pain, my God, the pain. "I still remember every last detail," Dirie told interviewer Jenny Johnston of England's Mirror. As her mother held her down on a rock, a nomad woman removed flesh from her genitals, "with an old razor blade, and then she sewed the wound coarsely"-using thorns to punch holes-"leaving only a tiny hole to urinate." The procedure left Dirie permanently changed, physically and emotionally for the rest of her life. When she was five years old, Dirie underwent an extreme form of female genital mutilation. Those are not, however, her most serious scars.
Though she was among the top models in the world for some years, model Waris Dirie has disfigured feet, covered with scars she acquired during a nine-day flight across the desert after she ran away from her nomadic family in Somalia to escape a forced marriage.
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