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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.4 m: u2 P7 N# r7 R# k: p
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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.# _: U7 C" N/ ]' H! u( U+ _' u3 x
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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.# p5 c5 g) K5 z8 O7 Y* s) L9 x
1 ^; j& f' ^4 \6 s1 mIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.6 ]# w* Q4 z) ^6 J: A
5 Z4 ~! Z- G f" M"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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"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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