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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.6 ~, Y3 P, J9 H6 k! M% b
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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 ]6 m, P* x' D1 [
+ B' }3 @4 t5 L"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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% g4 V5 o% e! W$ M" t6 T! }Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism./ j) ^; r: u& v
, o- X" t: F' D) b"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.0 |5 U& x4 {& H8 @
8 e7 K: K. A+ q* M9 n" `"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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