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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.7 J5 g! k6 W G7 T7 C5 C% @
) N. u8 _5 `1 L"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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, P. [8 Z1 r0 E* W"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.$ n- t S) H8 o7 K5 W* T
9 o& {+ k3 F* ?6 K* m. W7 TIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.8 `* s: {+ x8 ^; D0 J( k6 u
/ A5 i& U, {1 V4 @) _/ s b, A9 U"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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