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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., X- {8 Z5 B- l, C4 H, ~- J2 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., t& t& O8 N! I4 x" e! l; X. d: I* O
% d4 m/ W' m) r8 f3 w6 h: D"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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, {1 {. x% @+ HIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.( Z! N6 k0 U3 b8 a8 ]1 R0 ~% D
5 p' Z# O4 l/ l5 p+ ^# L( I"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.1 A6 C% K9 c+ m' f4 C1 ~5 M
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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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