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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 _& y( e3 d4 r
6 W2 z6 {2 y3 L/ i- V1 ~" A"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.2 P- f2 r" r. s" Z
: y z8 f- K& m" m' _! ~"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.( I/ Z7 j0 }3 R9 F
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.+ _* x: G4 k$ s: b: w' J
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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.
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3 a1 C- S# M$ c8 G. q7 _"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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