George Clooney's wife, Amal Clooney broke into the latest news by shutting down being famous and using fame for good.
Amal Alamuddin Clooney has been married to George Clooney for more than a year now. Amal is a lawyer, activist and author. Reportedly, her clients include Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, journalist Mohamed Fahmy and former Ukraine prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko.
USA Today reported that "the Beirut-born beauty who married mega-movie star and elusive-bachelor-no-more George Clooney" had her first TV interview with Cynthia McFadden of NBC News on Thursday night.
Apparently, the rest of the interview was shown on "Today" on Friday morning. Amal Clooney will also spill the latest on "Meet the Press," a Sunday news show hosted by Chuck Todd.
Amal Clooney was reported to raise awareness for international human-rights causes in America. In the past few months, Mrs. Clooney has also done interviews with BBC and with CNN's Christiane Amanpour regarding Maldives.
Apparently, all those was just an extension of what the lawyer-activist has been doing for 15 years. But now, she has "new fame" to push the advocacies that she is part of.
Vanity Fair reported that Amal Clooney was compared to celebrities like Angelina Jolie who used fame as a stepping stone to promote their advocacies. Amal finds it admirable; however she would not pit herself in the same level with Jolie.
"I think it's wonderful that [some] celebrities have chosen to spend time and energy and the spotlight they have to raise awareness about these causes," Amal Clooney explained to Cynthia McFadden.
"I don't really see myself in the same way because I'm still doing the same job that I used to do before."
"But if more attention is paid for whatever reason, then I think that's good," she continued.
Marie Claire also shared that Amal Clooney could not be asked about the latest news without people asking her about "trophy husband George," but at least on this first American TV interview, Amal Clooney talked about trying to prevent Maldives from being the highest churner of ISIS recruits compared to all of the world.
