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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.7 @3 k6 ?3 ~ z! n; o
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"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.& p1 h+ ?, G9 B' j3 b
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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.8 ^# C. z, X+ L9 h( a3 [
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.0 C/ e1 G5 `+ R1 Z$ N
2 F8 I7 o9 \6 N, n* U% ?9 D# w"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.
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2 q5 {5 T0 y7 c5 N) P X) ], i"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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