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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.! o. ~$ I5 g- o6 Q' S
* K% k3 E! b1 m1 v"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.# r& @' f! j6 c: U9 b. T) j6 V+ F
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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.9 N/ V, r5 h* ?# f5 D8 B( Y
& V% g6 m( ^0 V8 |2 S+ lIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism." t; T* n) e, ~6 k- O" y
- \5 A7 m- }1 Z' k5 K$ E"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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"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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