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 NEW YORK (AFP) - US First Lady Michelle Obama is not a "great beauty," but will "just get better with age," Iman, one of the first black supermodels, says in a magazine interview.
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"Mrs Obama is not a great beauty," the Somali-born model and wife of rocker David Bowie tells Parade magazine's Sunday issue, reflecting on the first black US first lady, who is a lawyer by training and a former executive.# \/ Z) F) h8 R% V) i1 H
5 H5 E1 [& F$ k1 {* x# P+ x"But she is so interesting looking and so bright. That will always take you farther. When you?re a great beauty, it?s always downhill for you. If you?re someone like Mrs Obama, you just get better with age," she said.. L6 G( R9 B( u6 q
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.0 n! h# f4 \1 Q
m8 h9 _: K, [& _$ p. y4 z4 Y) Q"You suddenly represent a whole race, and that race goes, ?Well, that person does not represent our ideals of beauty.? For lack of a better term, it becomes what it was like during slavery," she said.8 @; f; G; @% \4 g! K \
9 l: ~ v& i. Z) y& R"One had the field n...(expletive) and the house n...(expletive). There was this notion that I was chosen by white fashion editors to be better than the rest, which I am not. I did not like being thought of as the house n...(expletive)." |
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