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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.# c: w! [$ r/ f/ d* `
% L7 S3 s( _9 f3 h& V6 [9 x"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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- t7 m& q+ E, e"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.# l4 D* _+ D9 R, R0 k
3 c% B5 z: M, I/ oIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.# t% j, w9 W" s# a
4 O8 x$ }9 A* @% y. {' H"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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0 N$ r4 D) u0 y7 ~) D"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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