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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.# w! T) F* b+ \( z
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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.7 Z1 H) `. f7 J& b" L% i7 @
' \( w# X1 f# G# M"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.
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$ a4 V1 h+ ^& O) OIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism./ v+ J3 v+ } R1 _! G8 B
I# s) H! r5 f4 `+ L"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.
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2 \2 V: r+ q G* P' B! ["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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