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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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6 l# l2 l; ~0 |2 Z2 e0 y"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.4 M- S" y: b1 ^+ o* ?) r z
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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.4 f. V/ @+ \! S# t# F. ]5 w
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.$ T* W8 }8 J7 k$ b! M" c
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"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 y8 T4 M5 B/ I9 n, ]
; k& Z, w( f/ V. [6 ~) O6 w' U"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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