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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.3 P1 k7 y! m- c% X! b4 L5 Y3 f
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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.2 v# Y: V. R! c' E
+ d6 C4 e" j; k9 Z2 O"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.1 s5 V( b) m: O0 q8 J
9 F$ \ `9 }0 V) ~' e# \2 U/ I! _, `Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.4 f- p0 d) u( R: ?# }- L( ]) G2 b0 J
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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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"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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