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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.& j8 R/ d2 g' q# X) [
0 D0 f: T+ D+ x8 j: p; _"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.% Q S2 |( D6 c6 a. P) k$ R% G
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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.! b7 p0 ~: _( k. ~* Y- ?
6 O$ R) b) a: T) jIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.0 \% ]' L z/ h
7 m8 [, Y; D' S8 i$ q"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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4 M2 ^; e5 C/ B3 P; j$ U) 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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