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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.) s$ g& `; o# ]; \& R D
* O* r. L9 Y) @! N2 @* R$ e"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.: K5 p; G; a! `% j/ N
; g4 N& c) H$ |"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.
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, B$ y! S$ t4 ?- I# oIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.$ s4 s3 u$ q# P7 t* w- Z! H
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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.2 q" D% G/ z3 x: U8 B0 ?
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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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