Miranda Tapsell's Beautiful Heart

Miranda Tapsell. Photo: Getty

When Miranda Tapsell gets behind a cause, she's not afraid to get vocal. "I am an ally and I express my support as an ambassador," she says.

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It's that fearlessness in speaking on behalf of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, her friends in the LGBT community and Our WATCh that has earned Tapsell a place in WHO's Most Beautiful People issue for 2016.

"I don't want people to think I come from an angry place or a place of blame," Tapsell says about being a social justice advocate. "These particular topics that I talk about are uncomfortable for a lot of people, so I think it's interesting what can often be projected on someone who is honest about what she thinks and feels."

Miranda Tapsell. Photo: Getty

Tapsell, who says she benefitted from and loved being read to as a child, admires the Indigenous Literacy Foundation program that provides specific communities with children's books written with English on one side and the local indigenous language on the other side.

"If parents speak an Aboriginal language and are not as confident in English, they are not going to be confident reading to their children," Tapsell says. The books are designed so parents "are confident in reading it," Tapsell adds, "and because it is also in English, the children can be confident in reading and seeing the relationship with the indigenous language. It encourages speaking in both so their language is still a living thriving language but English is for them as well."

For the second year, Tapsell participated Mardi Gras festivities in Sydney to support her friends, organisers Ben Graetz and artist Daniel Cunningham. "I'm a bit saddened about the marriage equality agenda being pushed back," she admits, "but I am going to keep standing alongside my LGBT brothers and sisters as a heterosexual woman."

And with Our WATCh, the outreach organisation to End Violence Against Women And Their Children, Tapsell says, "I'm aware of how domestic violence affects different Aboriginal communities but I just didn't realise the actual rate of it and thought, well, I have to get behind this."

Miranda Tapsell. Photo: Getty

To find out more about Tapsell and Our WATCh, and to read more about how stars such as Angelina Jolie, Matthew McConaughey, Drew Barrymore and David Pocock are making a difference, pick up WHO's Most Beautiful People Issue - on sale now.