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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./ `0 Z) Z, h; `9 p3 m, h% m9 P
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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. b4 B( x2 ?" b: n# G6 G
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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.2 y/ `* x0 F& D1 p
' ^2 R4 v" e2 T7 i1 K+ Q7 FIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.( C9 K' E: r5 T" E2 U' p5 P
6 h; p/ O6 f3 |( M: v"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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"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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