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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.1 O% S6 B% D% ?) v, y3 Y
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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., b0 d& ~2 q5 r( A. u! ~$ b' D. Q- h3 b( U
9 V6 N, n: L5 r3 N9 d"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. G1 L7 z+ S& G/ n6 K
1 m. |2 h: ]/ zIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.2 P7 \4 r0 ^" L
' v# U" A* a2 g& ?+ K: j2 \( Y"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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