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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.% [  |( f, }2 F1 u, c7 j2 c, E

: _" c9 W. h1 m"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.
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0 _4 {1 e- n( v2 a- d"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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" b) }9 Q" w2 ?9 X  lIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.! r7 E% \* X+ I

% Y1 V) W* R- ~. h"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." s, I3 }, ~, D5 B' c

: s: ~5 S( v* Y9 K( ]+ A"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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