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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 |; Y1 B1 N3 E& E0 G$ H
+ H8 B! R; ?- z/ j# U"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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"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.0 i7 x+ J8 Q- j! y
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism." x9 a& v9 O5 k' K% J) G, S+ ^6 [1 @
' z5 U7 B# ]7 K& Z5 X9 f/ K"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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1 n, b& L4 ]$ G. t; Q( ?"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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