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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.
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5 R& L2 i2 k0 I2 t/ o" |% e"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.! D7 Q' A& K. }! `+ J- \* k
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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.2 t0 B' F6 W1 d1 S% D
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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E2 F& _1 b, w- N4 X2 l5 C# D7 c"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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( @* |8 g T' x7 a2 L( i# o6 Y0 w7 R. B"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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