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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./ |% a& c5 _1 U/ S
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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.7 s9 y7 m8 K2 t( @! a
6 [) R% F/ R& k, _$ x7 q"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.- }; e, ^* O1 e# ~: ^
' I8 a7 c8 G" _$ ~; hIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.& l5 S8 Y6 X- ~2 B: c- f. v2 ^2 Y
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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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. I; }' J `- g+ b$ d"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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