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Tara Moss (born 2 October 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, television presenter, journalist, former model and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival.〔("UNICEF Australia National Ambassadors Tweet to raise awareness of preventable child deaths" ), UNICEF Australia, 13 September 2013〕〔(HMMG biography )〕〔"Australian Female Models" ISBN 9781157542124〕 ==Biography== Moss was born to parents of Dutch descent – her grandparents had escaped from Nazi-occupied Holland – in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also attended school. Moss's mother Janni died of multiple myeloma in 1990 at age 43.〔(Tara Moss: Mum-To-Be ), ''Who'', 14 December 2010〕 Her mother was one of the first 100 patients in the world to be treated for the cancer with a bone marrow transplant. The main character in Moss's crime series, Mak Vanderwall, lost her mother to the same form of cancer. Moss began modelling at age 14, with frequent trips to Europe from the age of 16, but did not stay long in the profession.〔http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/beauty-with-a-brain-tara-moss-continues-to-push-boundaries/story-fnhocxo3-1226927056199〕 At age 21, as detailed in ''The Fictional Woman'' (2014), she was raped in Vancouver by a known assailant, a Canadian actor.〔http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-culture/tara-moss-i-kept-the-story-locked-up-in-me-for-20-years-20140516-38ecg.html〕 She recounts that she received little support. He was eventually charged with raping about a dozen women but was only convicted for another rape because his friends testified against him, then jailed for two years. After marriages to the Canadian Martin Legge and to the Australian actor Mark Pennell,〔("Tara Moss gathers husband No.3" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 December 2009〕 she married Australian poet and philosopher Dr Berndt Sellheim,〔("Tara Moss gathers husband No.3" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 8 December 2009〕 grandson of German-Australian artist Gert Sellheim in 2009. Moss gave birth to a daughter, Sapphira, on 22 February 2011.〔(Tara Moss welcomes baby girl ), ''ABC News'', 24 February 2011〕 She has lived in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney in New South Wales since 2009. Moss is a UNICEF Ambassador for Child Survival,〔http://www.unicef.org.au/Discover/News/September-2013/UNICEF-Australia-National-Ambassadors-Tweet-to-rai.aspx〕 a Goodwill Ambassador, and UNICEF Australia Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Heath Initiative (BFHI)). Since 2000 she has been an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.〔(List of ambassadors ), Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children〕 She is currently (2014) a PhD candidate at the Department of gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney.〔("Under the skin" ) by Susan Wyndham, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 17 May 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tara Moss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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