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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.$ T' ]# V" X, r+ a2 i
+ z, |' H' h! [9 S% z" S"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. i* [* Q/ D6 G" }) z9 D" N
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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.! ^. R! ~* H! k$ o
9 d, V4 N$ }. l2 G3 @- g- oIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.+ z. ^+ B. x+ N" J- W
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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.) d P |( c" Y" N5 F
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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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