Pink has been named the newest ambassador to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the singer/songwriter announced during a live appearance on “Good Morning America” on Monday.

“I’ve always wanted to work with UNICEF,” Pink said on “GMA.” “It’s the one organization over the last 15 years just consistently been in mind for all the amazing things that they do and timing is everything and it worked out.”

The Grammy Award-winning artist, who has a 4-year-old daughter named Willow with husband Carey Hart, traveled to Haiti with UNICEF this summer to witness firsthand the plight of malnourished children there.

“When you have a child of your own and you try to imagine looking at them and not being able to feed them, it does something to you,” Pink said of how Willow has inspired her activism with UNICEF and in Haiti.

Pink, whose hits include “So What” and “Just Give Me a Reason,” has already been working with UNICEF as a national spokesperson for Kid Power, which provides critical health and nutrition programs around the world.

The project provides participating children with fitness bands and encourages them to learn about new cultures and keep active. The children’s activities will earn them points that will unlock funding by parents, partners and friends. UNICEF will use those funds to send food to severely malnourished children around the world, according to a press release from the organization.

“One in four kids in America are inactive and one in four kids globally are malnourished and UNICEF has brilliantly come up with how to connect the two,” Pink said. “You unlock therapeutic food packets, which I’ve seen with my own eyes bring children back to life.”

“For every certain amount of steps you make, as active as you want to be, then you unlock a packet,” she added. “You’re kind of creating global citizens. It’s so empowering to be able to be in charge of helping.”

The bands are available now at Target for $39.99.

Pink and her trainer, Jeannette Jenkins, along with some children from Public School 41, Greenwich Village School in New York, demonstrated workout moves live on “GMA” to show children how they can remain active and have fun at the same time.

Pink is the latest star to be named UNICEF Ambassador. Other celebrities who have also advocated on behalf of children include Téa Leoni, Sarah Jessica Parker, Laurence Fishburneand Selena Gomez.

ABC News

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On This Day in Pink History… 27th November 2008, Pink performed at the Bambi Awards 

On This Day in Pink History… 23rd November 2008 Pink attended the American Music Awards 

On This Day in Pink History… 21st November 2010, Pink attended the American Music Awards

On This Day in Pink History… 21st November 2000, Pink performed Most Girls at the World AIDS Day Concert 

On This Day in Pink History… 20th November 2006, Nobody Knows was released

Nobody Knows it the 4th single from Pink’s album, I’m Not Dead. It was written by Pink and Billy Mann and it reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart. The b-side to the single is Words.

The music video was shot in London by director Jake Nava. The first scene features Pink in a hotel room (shot in The May Fair hotel) staring out of a window to London at night, that changes to sunrise. She then watches TV but finds there’s hardly anything on apart from a melting snowman and puts her head under her pillow before accessing her laptop computer. During the video she messes up the room by throwing everything around, and she is later seen sitting in the fetal position in a shower. Another scene shows Pink walking down a street, past a couple in love and some drunken men. The video ends with Pink singing to an empty auditorium, pretending to do a real performance.

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On This Day in Pink History… 20th November 2001, Missundaztood was released

In 2001, Pink released her second album Missundaztood. The album was different to Pink’s debut R&B Can’t Take Me Home, as it leads towards rock and pop. She recruited 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry to help her with writing a new album.

Pink worked with Perry on most of the songs of the album, who also contributed guest vocals on “Lonely Girl”. Other guest vocals are provided by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi on “Misery”. Other writers that worked on the album are Scott Storch and Dallas Austin.

Different subjects are touched upon on Missundaztood. In “Don’t Let Me Get Me” she tackles teenage angst and “Just like a Pill” she describes her drug abuse as a teenager. Pink’s father was sent to serve in the Vietnam war which made such an impression on her that she used the stories of her father in the song “My Vietnam”. Towards the end of the song is a sonic interpolation of Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner.” “Family Portrait” tackles divorce and its effects.

There are claims that say that the song “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera was first intended to be sung by Pink, as the song was also written by Perry. Pink claimed the song but Perry did not give it to her because she was waiting for someone else and she was not ready to record the song.

According to VH1’s Driven, Antonio “LA” Reid of LaFace Records wasn’t initially content with the new music Pink was making, because she had made a name for herself with her successful R&B debut.

At the 2003 Grammy Awards “Missundaztood” was nominated for “Best Pop Vocal Album” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance”, respectively. At the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, “Get the Party Started” won in the categories “Best Female Video” and “Best Dance Video”. Many of the songs on the album contain strong language, and the song “18 Wheeler” in particular, contained many expletives. However, the album was censored in order to avoid a Parental Advisory sticker. No uncensored studio versions of “18 Wheeler” exist, but Pink performs the song uncensored while on tour.

In the U.S., three different editions of Missundaztood were released in total: the first edition was the original version released in 2001 with an enhanced portion on the disc, which—if put in your computer—let you listen to the international song “Catch 22”, and gave you access to a photo gallery, sing-alongs, and more. The second version released was the main album reissued, but without the enhanced CD portion. A third version, which was a limited edition that included a bonus DVD (the contents of the CDs were the same) was released for a limited time in 2002 and included the two music videos and two live performances. Both the limited edition with the bonus DVD and the enhanced CD versions have since gone out of print, and the initial 2001 release is the only version of the album still in print. It was released outside the US with an extra track, “Catch 22”. Also, on current pressings of the album, the track “Misery” is slightly different. On current pressings, Steven Tyler sings an entire verse as opposed to a providing only few lines and background vocals. On initial pressings of the album, Pink sang all the verses, including the one that Tyler sings on current pressings of the album. The first version of the album that contains the version of Misery where Pink sings Tyler’s verse was not on a specific pressing run, as even some copies the first version of the album released (with the enhanced content) have the current version of the song. It is somewhat hard to find editions of the album with the original version of the song.

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There were four singles released from the album:

• Get The Party Started
• Don’t Let Me Get Me
• Just Like A Pill
• Family Portrait

Tracklist:

1. Missundaztood
2. Don’t Let Me Get Me
3. Just Like A Pill
4. Get The Party Started
5. Respect (feat. Scratch)
6. 18 Wheeler
7. Family Portrait
8. Misery (feat. Steven Tyler)
9. Dear Diary
10. Eventually
11. Lonely Girl (feat. Linda Perry)
12. Numb
13. Gone To California
14. My Vietnam
15. Catch 22 (bonus track)

The album debuted at number eight on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 220,000 copies in its first week of release, a higher chart and sales debut than that of Pink’s first album, Can’t Take Me Home (2000). In its fifth week, when it was at number ten, the album sold 323,000 copies. It sold 73,000 copies in its eighth week and rose to number six on the chart; this was its peak position. The album being the second biggest selling album by female artist in 2002, behind Avril Lavigne debut album Let Go. As of July 2014, it had sold 5,628,000 copies in the U.S.

In the UK the album peaked at #2 in the album chart and eventually manage to sell 1.8 million copies, receiving a 5× Platinum certification (however, it is eligible for 6× Platinum). The success was so huge that as of November 2006, the album was ranked ninety-fourth on the Official UK Charts Company’s all-time best-selling albums list. In 2010 it was ranked the 37th best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.

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John Legend and Pink duet on “Someday We’ll All Be Free” at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during Shining A Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America, presented by A+E Networks and iHeartMedia.

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On This Day in Pink History… 18th November 2012, Pink attended the American Music Awards 

On This Day in Pink History… 17th November 2010, Pink announced that she was pregnant

In November 2010, Pink took to The Ellen DeGeneres Show to announce that she was pregnant. Ellen asked Pink why she thought she was ‘glowing’ and Pink announced that she was ‘eating for two these days’.

Watch the full interview here: