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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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1 V6 A3 e t) j" i# D' O( D"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.( }* a! U7 x0 _, k, J) B! a$ w
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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.' S J8 R: b9 j% q4 k9 p
3 K0 E F# u. b) W/ ]Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.* u% Q) F' A# M4 |, I$ C+ r' n
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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.! @# g7 Y4 F W1 J# ]9 P- O' h) I/ A
. q: i& C1 Q0 M+ Y"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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