Christiane Amanpour: 'All the Women Were Blond'

Amanpour explains why an emphasis on appearance, is not feasible in her line of work.

Christiane Amanpour is a world renowned war correspondent and news anchor. She is currently CNN's Chief International Correspondent and Anchor of Amanpour, a nightly foreign affairs program on CNN International, and the Global Affairs Anchor for ABC News, contributing to multiple programs and anchoring primetime specials. In 1983, she was hired by CNN as an entry-level assistant on the network's international assignment desk in Atlanta. She worked her way up to correspondent in CNN's New York bureau before becoming an international correspondent in 1990. She has earned every major television journalism award including an inaugural Television Academy Honor, nine News and Documentary Emmy® Awards, four George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, an Edward R. Murrow award, and a Giants of Broadcasting honor from the Library of American Broadcasting. She has also received nine honorary degrees.