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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." d; R8 w2 u2 ~% {9 r9 M
2 p1 R c# E1 X6 m: V9 k# w! {8 n; m" H"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.
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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" R, g/ i: ?- @1 ~
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.( `+ V, c, H: H
" _* O& C* B8 ?/ B"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.% a8 a# F/ d; w) J4 n# f
" \4 Z0 ?$ A( B- S. @4 l0 ]* 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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