Celebrities tend to have larger-than-life identities that make us think of them as someone unreachable, and untouchable. However, lots of celebrities, like Renee Zellweger, Jim Carrey, Mandy Moore, and Jamie Lee Curtis are doing their part to make the world a better place.

Pop-star Jessica Simpson might be known as a ditzy blond in commercials and the show “Newlyweds,” and super hot in movies, but she has something not every actress-singer does. She’s a real person, and she knows how to treat people like they matter.

Jessica Simpson has been serving with “Operation Smile” since 2003, and today she is the organization’s “International Youth Ambassador.” Serving in Kenya for ten days, Jessica directed children to where they were to go, giving them some gifts and cheering them up as best she could.

She didn’t stop at directing the children to where they should go. Putting on a pair of scrubs herself, she assisted the doctors in the Operation Room. Jessica spent time with one child in particular, One and a half-year-old Boke. Boke’s father had sold his six cows - his only source of income - in order to pay for money to travel to get his daughter the surgery she needed. Jessica was with Boke while she went under, stayed with her through the evaluation and the surgery, and then delivered her back to her father.

“My experience in Kenya with Operation Smile was incredible,” said Jessica. “To witness the truly miraculous transformations in the lives of so many desperate needy children was both powerful and personally rewarding.”

Operation Smile is a private, not-for-profit worldwide children’s medical charity that repairs facial deformities in children. One child, a Vietnamese boy named Thanh Ngah, was born with cleft lip and a hole in his palate. Operation Smile changed that. Since it’s beginning in 1982, more than 100,000 children worldwide have been helped similarly by the organization. In November 2007, the organization plans on conducting 40 different missions in 25 different countries in an effort to help children worldwide, with plans to help about another 5,000 children.

Jessica attended Operation Smile’s 25th Anniversary Celebration October 6, where she posed with Paige, who was born with a cleft lip and a cleft plate.

For more information on Operation Smile and what you can do to help, you can check out http://www.operationsmile.org.

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