For the final 12 days of 2008, UNICEF celebrity Ambassadors and Supporters are posting daily blog entries about the impact UNICEF Inspired Gifts are having on children around the world. Téa Leoni continues her family's 50-year tradition of improving the lives of children worldwide by serving as a UNICEF Ambassador and board member of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

Tea Leoni:

A mother will always do whatever it takes to protect her child from danger. And no mother would intentionally put her child in harms way. Yet every minute of every day, somewhere in the world, a child dies of AIDS-related causes and another child becomes infected with HIV—usually contracted during pregnancy, labor or delivery.

Providing moms-to-be with HIV/AIDS tests helps prevent HIV-positive mothers from unintentionally infecting their unborn children. And, you can help!

This holiday season I ask that you be inspired to offer the best gift any mother can offer their child — a healthy start in life.

I am Téa Leoni, and I believe in zero.


25,000 young children die every day from preventable causes—things like malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of safe, drinkable water. UNICEF believes that number should be zero.

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For a couple who announced just weeks ago that they had been separated for several months, self-confessed sexaholic David Duchovny and his wife, Téa Leoni, sure are spending an awful lot of time together. Téa's rep says, "Nothing has changed—Téa and David remain friends," but neighborhood sources say the actors, who have two kids, appear to have moved into a newly renovated maisonette on East 78th Street (they sold their Malibu mansion in July), and the family has been visiting the local Tasti D-Lite store for frozen treats. "They all ordered cones and were totally affectionate,'' reports one observer of the reunited brood, who took a big bag of goodies home with them on their most recent visit. The Californication star is no doubt relieved to have found a pleasure in life that is guilt-free.

Beth Landman

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