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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./ c2 F( |! u8 t0 f8 `
1 I6 ^! \' h! |0 o; D7 Z"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.$ u" t& O1 |9 k' x
) g1 ]1 x u7 r5 y5 {0 S' }"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., t% W- [$ P! Y9 G* D
) }3 |) H4 X7 }3 i) yIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.( q. w7 c" `1 o2 R# @$ h) I) H
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"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.3 o3 A# F0 X' ~. Q$ W
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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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