Chelsea Clinton urged the importance of fighting hunger as she was honored at a New York charity gala on Tuesday night.
The former First Daughter, who is a Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, was presented with the City Harvest Award for Commitment for her support of the organization through volunteering with the Clinton Foundation's Day of Action program.
She wore a colorful patterned dress, black cardigan and nude heels to the event on Tuesday, which was also attended by Chrissy Teigen, actress Bridget Moynahan, Real Housewives Of New York star Bethenny Frankel and domestic goddess Martha Stewart.
Chelsea Clinton was presented with the City Harvest Award for Commitment on Tuesday at a gala in New York City for her support of the organization through volunteering with the Clinton Foundation’s Day of Action program
She wore a colorful patterned dress, black cardigan and nude heels to the event on Tuesday, which was also attended by Chrissy Teigen, actress Bridget Moynahan, Real Housewives Of New York star Bethenny Frankel and domestic goddess Martha Stewart
Despite making several public appearances in recent months, Clinton has previously shut down rumors that she would be running for public office.
'We believe in City Harvest because no child should go hungry,' Clinton, 37, said as she spoke to the crowd.
She later thanked City Harvest, which fights hunger in New York City, on Twitter following the event.
'Thank you to everyone @CityHarvest for helping provide healthy food to more than 1 million New Yorkers every year,' she wrote. 'At @ClintonFdn, we love being part of the more than 10,000 volunteers who work annually with @CityHarvest.'Earlier this year, Clinton and staff from her family's foundation packed 25,000lb of grapefruit to distribute to New York residents.
Since Clinton's mother, Hillary Clinton, lost the presidential election in November, the former First Daughter has been outspoken on Twitter and has been vocal about her activism.
She has also taken the time to defend President Donald Trump's children, who have faced criticism since their father took office.
But Clinton revealed in this month's issue of Variety that she doesn't plan on running for public office.
Clinton was pictured at the event with Donna Shalala, the president of the Clinton Foundation who served as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton
She was one of of six women to front the new print edition of Variety honoring the trade publication's picks for their annual Power of Women issue.
In the issue, Clinton revealed that she has no plans to run for office, lamented the amount of fake news that has been spread about The Clinton Foundation and discussed how she is able to balance her career with having two young children.
Clinton was asked during the interview to give a brief description of what exactly The Clinton Foundation does in their world wide efforts,
'At its most distilled level, we try to make a positive, impactful, empowering difference in whatever ways we can,' said Clinton.
'It's the story of any of our programmatic work over time, whether we're thinking about global health, climate change, the work we've done for women and girls. That will continue to be our story in the future. I'm really excited about the next chapter. '
She was then asked about the attacks that the foundation came under during the election.
'The lies were absolutely frustrating because the facts didn't seem sufficient to put them to rest,' said Clinton.
'I think that was so odd about the whole experience - either the truth was insufficient or people just didn't care. And, really, I am so grateful to everyone who works at the foundation, who just kept doing their work.'
Clinton also spoke about her healthy eating habits, shortly after celebrating St. Patrick's Day by making her young son and daughter some spinach puree pancakes.
'My parents did a frustratingly good job, particularly my mom, of ensuring I liked healthy food, because those were really the only foods they let me eat,' revealed Clinton.
'I wasn't allowed to have sugar cereal. We only had dessert on the weekends or special occasions. I also loved cheese, so the healthy foods I wasn't maybe so thrilled about, my mother just melted cheese on top of broccoli until I learned to love broccoli.'
Last week she primarily stayed away from politics and stuck to the subject of childhood obesity Friday at a Variety magazine event honoring prominent women and their charity work.
Responding to a pointed quip hours earlier from emcee Vanessa Bayer, a 'Saturday Night Live' cast member, that none of the honorees' mothers was president of the United States, Clinton reminded her that maybe not, 'but someday, someone's (mother) will be'.
The line got one of the biggest cheers of the afternoon.
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