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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.9 J k) c8 s1 h* d
8 W: H7 p: H m* m7 a"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.$ ]5 ` b' u3 S9 d: [7 S3 Q! m& I2 \
1 ~( J- F! w e* {# _& A"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.8 D" C. Q2 V/ ~0 L3 p" I @2 E
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.4 _, f K' ^" K. P2 O5 y+ V
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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.6 v8 Y* G6 V. q1 |) A' u8 F0 b! ^
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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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