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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.2 z& o3 N! U: Y5 U5 `5 k# J
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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.8 l& T$ b2 Y" v v. \
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"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.% d, y2 L7 |+ C8 G6 D
1 r! u+ T0 f/ b" L0 b4 }Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.' R( q4 N. O) [ A, A. V9 l$ s
* Y2 i* R5 z) ~7 q& f"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.; u7 L8 _3 p/ r r
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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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