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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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8 I& D e& K0 J. G7 u$ l% v1 K# i"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.: H, Y7 F2 G0 d: e! c
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"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.
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6 d' V0 t- z" f V5 ?! u8 O5 KIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.4 ?- m2 f; E7 P' ^, Q c6 T
; o/ V. m. z" `1 q! a5 F$ P2 S"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 j1 t( |! Q3 j& U
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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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