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Interview: Selita Ebanks from 'Celebrity Apprentice'
Submitted on 04.16.2010 - 02:35:04 pm by curlie731
Interview: Selita Ebanks from 'Celebrity Apprentice'
Interview: Selita Ebanks from 'Celebrity Apprentice'
We had the pleasure of speaking with Selita Ebanks from Celebrity Apprentice. She spoke with us about her charity Shine on Sierra Leone, her surprise at being voted off, and who she thinks is going to win in the end.

I was wondering how did you choose the particular charity you had?

Selita Ebanks: Well in 2007 I went with Elle Magazine to Sierra Leone to learn more about - and so some sort of documentation of non-conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone, in the progress of the country because it's a war torn country. They had a ten year civil war and I was there for ten days and woman named Tiffany Persons, she is the director of Shine On Sierra Leone, she just tagged along, it wasn't anything intentional, her being there and we visited a village that she supports, her charity Shine On Sierra Leone.

And I was just so overwhelmed and so excited to learn so much about this country and unfortunately it's - I'm sorry it's unfortunate that Sierra Leone has the highest child mortality rate in all of the world. One in four children die at childbirth before the age of five. I'm sorry, one in four children die before the age of five and one in ten women die in childbirth.

You know and it was just something that was startling to me so I decided to go with that charity because I believed that they needed more support.

Did Mr. Trump give you any advice in particular you're going to take with you?

Selita Ebanks: No, not really. He didn't give me advice per se but his words definitely did stick with me, you know last night when he fired me he said that he thought Maria and Holly were strong business women. And he didn't see the same quality in myself, but unfortunately you know I've been doing this for ten years and the longevity of a model's career is not even close to ten years so I - you know I'm going to have to disagree with him.

But he doesn't know my career so that's fine. But actually what I did take from that comment was that I do tend to defend a stranger before I defend myself. And so perhaps my skin has gotten too thick because words don't phase me anymore. So that's something that you know I would take as advice is just to learn how to be more assertive when it comes to defending myself.

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