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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.$ x. c' R% Y/ r- i5 t6 J$ ^
; |' x4 ? ~# s% n( I' ?; Q+ ~"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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$ y/ l" n$ y3 w5 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.! p, }4 `- s0 I! u% N. i7 G, P
. E* C& x9 } ^ I; C* D1 s1 fIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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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.7 X+ E C& M$ V
8 p( ]. ?" A/ Q3 j5 S"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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