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Michelle Obama no 'beauty' but 'bright': Iman

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发表于 2009-5-16 14:54 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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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"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.- E+ _+ M2 }( v; F  h$ H4 E

( E) l0 S& {4 u"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 z' ?: ~" j  I9 p) A
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.1 O% o; F* v3 K7 f

) c) s' M; U7 [- R' @4 o# \5 F2 R"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.2 Z' O$ Q- Y# ^# E" e

2 x: Z! m) ?; H"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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发表于 2009-5-17 08:19 | 显示全部楼层
Agree, Mrs. Obama is very bright.
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