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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.
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; b( [8 G5 v4 J9 z# B"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.8 ~ Z r9 M" p9 Q' P
" w2 Y! C( ^; ]2 W" v* A2 h"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 u; I; ^. A* l% ]7 c
: I/ o! R" L5 h* V, ~Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.. @; b0 b% n6 x/ R
4 q0 N M2 P0 j8 C; _"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.9 q) P* `4 ` z" s& B2 O$ i# P
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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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