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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.7 L( s9 z' ~* a$ ^( G, A4 ~
* N' v" H9 h6 R0 A0 ]9 z: n"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.6 ]: T- O- |# u5 s9 X; G
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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3 N. Z1 T, q0 Y! b# ^) k"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 ?* k) [( @8 p8 }
+ _. {; |0 s0 K' o9 s: ~% E* _"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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