Random Acts of Ali Larter: Saying yes to carrots, signing shoes, visiting the United Nations, winning awards for fights, annoying Ms Magazine and singing with Wolf Blitzer

Ali Larter and compost

This fortnight, Ali Larter has been the most random – and randomly charitable – person in recorded history.

First, she’s selling off autographed shoes to help women with cancer as part of ‘Hero in Heels’s summer auction.

Then she’s off encouraging inner city kids to start or improve high school gardens – and appreciate the power of compost – as part of the Environmental Media Association’s “Yes to Carrots Garden Challenge” in Venice, California.

Then in a break from all that charity work, she’s off winning an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight in Obsessed.

As if that wasn’t honour enough, she then gets invited by the United Nations Foundation (as “an actress and women’s health advocate“) to go to the Women Deliver Conference in Washington DC (with her mum):

Ali Larter at the Women Deliver conference

Said conference, which focused on global and maternal and reproductive health, managed to get Melinda Gates to cough up $1.5 billion to help women around the world.

That was $1.5 BILLION in case you missed it.

Our Ali, who ironically for a women’s health advocate, had a cold at the time, says:

How can you create the life of your dreams if you can’t plan your own family? Hundreds of thousands of women don’t have access to contraceptives… Women’s rights are human rights

But despite all that and proudly declaring herself a feminist (“I am just a woman who feels a sense of responsibility to help other girls and women”), she still managed to annoy Ms Magazine, by saying she was proud to be a Mrs. You can’t win them all, huh?

Nevertheless, did you really expect her to end the conference without doing something random? Like singing Aretha Franklin’s “(You Make me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” with special assistant to the president Gayle Smith, South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, for example. Of course not:

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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