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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.8 w2 \' O+ k9 L
" u$ G: a/ h- J) {8 @, `7 ]"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.
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"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.% R+ b/ j6 g6 h% o5 _4 Y
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.9 y/ Q3 b* q2 I$ y; m/ F
8 ~9 w$ z; u2 j4 I+ k" C6 h"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.4 ~/ N8 p$ `5 m) Z2 Q
0 j5 I+ d- h0 C1 I1 L"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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