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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.; L1 E& W2 ]: ~- j2 C; z% w! R
3 Z# ]# z8 `; | Q3 h( D8 _* d"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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* p7 i% P9 D$ N6 p: E7 R"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.# ~0 n! E, P9 d s
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.9 b) Z b1 D% ?& a
8 P5 o0 [4 N* m% t: X4 _, L; Z: B"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.0 h3 k @: E9 n! z' v/ L
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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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