{"id":2836,"date":"2008-04-09T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2008-04-11T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T19:06:48","slug":"somaly-mam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/somaly-mam\/","title":{"rendered":"Somaly Mam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm1.jpg\" alt=\"sm1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Somaly Mam<\/strong> with <strong>Petra Nemcova<\/strong>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/agencies\/detail.cfm?agencydir_id=61\">Next Models NY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syndicate-ny.com\/home.php\" title=\"Syndicate\">Syndicate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderlandbeautyparlor.com\/\" title=\"Michael Angelo\">Michael Angelo<\/a> invited MDC to the dinner honoring Somaly Mam, we jumped at the chance to bring attention to her cause, human trafficking. The inspirational Cambodian woman, herself imprisoned and tortured in a brothel at a young age, risks her life to rescue young girls (some as young as 2 years old) who are sold into sexual slavery. A CNN hero, Somaly has had tremendous support from the likes of Barbara Walters and Queen Latifah. Many notables in the fashion and modeling industry are also big supporters of Somaly&#8217;s foundation, including Diane Von Furstenburg, Glamour&#8217;s Editor in Chief -Cindy Leive, Petra Nemcova and Bar Rafaeli.  At the event, we saw some familiar and lovely faces to MDC. As <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/agencies\/detail.cfm?agencydir_id=301\">1 Model Management<\/a> agent Vivian Wang puts it,  &#8220;It&#8217;s so important that in fashion, we keep a perspective on what we do and to appreciate what we have everyday.&#8221; Amen to that.<\/p>\n<p>To do your part, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/somaly.org\" title=\"Somaly\">Somaly.org<\/a> and buy a handmade bracelet by one of the victims that have been saved by Somaly: <a href=\"http:\/\/somaly.org\/merchandise\/details.php?prodId=33&amp;category=\" title=\"bracelet\">buy bracelet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For larger donations, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/somaly.org\/donate\/\" title=\"donate\">donate<\/a>. For other pictures of the event and some of our favorite models click below:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm2.jpg\" alt=\"sm2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CNN hero: Somaly Mam<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm3.jpg\" alt=\"sm3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Noot\/One, supports a great cause<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm4.jpg\" alt=\"sm4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actress Jennifer Missoni in blue<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm5.jpg\" alt=\"sm5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somaly greets a longtime friend and supporter, Petra Nemcova.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm6.jpg\" alt=\"sm6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Petra in Cambodian dress<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm7.jpg\" alt=\"sm7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bar Rafaeli\/One smiles for MDC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm8.jpg\" alt=\"sm8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The always glowing SI cover girl, Veronika Vareckova\/Next.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm9.jpg\" alt=\"sm9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SI beauties Bar and Petra together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm10.jpg\" alt=\"sm10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turning despair into hope.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm11.jpg\" alt=\"sm11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer signs one of the Cambodian prayer flags supporting the victims<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm12.jpg\" alt=\"sm12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Linda V\/One, with Eugenia Silva and Veronika\/Next.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm16.jpg\" alt=\"sm16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One supports Somaly: Noot, Denisa, Jenny with agents Vivian and Kristie<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/sm13.jpg\" alt=\"sm13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taylor\/One; model and the owner of an amazing bakery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/images\/2008\/04\/am15.jpg\" alt=\"am15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Syndicate&#8217;s Marissa with celebrity hair stylist Michael Angelo; champions of justice.<!--pp-thumb-start--><!--PictPress found no dir \/2008\/04\/2836--><!--pp-thumb-end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Syndicate and Michael Angelo invited MDC to the dinner honoring Somaly Mam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1523,2032,1482,2853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}