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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.( v$ e2 p4 O0 v+ g* 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.9 I% ?# O& o: T
5 ^( l) H+ e9 c"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.( r" g5 ]$ g9 p I7 E- k
* f- n: a$ L+ Z0 G% b. cIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.9 ~% v9 J2 z% G) J) y" [
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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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# x5 @: S# L9 B& f0 Y4 Z0 V, ?"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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