As we recently reported, Alicia Keys along with four other famous females joined their forces to create the movie “Five” that tells a story of women with breast cancer. The new issue of Glamour Magazine, which hits the newsstands in October, will have Alicia Keys on the cover page alongside Demi Moore and Jennifer Aniston. Ladies gave the short interviews mainly talking about their project and inspirations. Peep the excerpts from Alicia Keys interview below:
On her Five film “Lili”:
“After I read the scripts, I felt like this was something important, and I wanted to be a part of it. I chose Lili because she’s close to my age and I understood the family dynamic. I had an immediate idea of what I could bring to it.”
On her organization Keep A Child Alive:
“It’s my organization that I founded with a brilliant woman, Leigh Blake. I was asked to go to Africa for an AIDS-awareness trip when I was about 20 or 21, and the thing that struck me the most was that here we have teenagers going through teenage things, like “Is that boy going to like me?” But there it was “Is that boy going to like me now that he knows my mother died of AIDS? Is he going to think I have AIDS too?” I remember thinking, This is my generation. I can’t just pretend I didn’t experience this.”
On a relationship with her husband:
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