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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.: [0 c5 W" B2 M7 }, `9 W
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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.1 M& ?5 Y8 l, u2 C6 c! S+ o
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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.% C4 C( T4 c3 H
" _1 H l6 [. w' i) H7 A- Y! QIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.1 X% T& G# o6 {# C* w8 b* S
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"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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b# F0 E; F/ m4 p1 I8 s"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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