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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.) [0 S( ^6 @3 q2 a3 F" a0 E
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"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.! ?! v0 S3 f5 y) z# J3 P4 n
2 w0 I1 a% R7 ?3 ["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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6 \2 _' l+ N% G. T- L: JIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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, B0 h) t3 b7 ^"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.* b2 o7 @, R% m; v# q2 ]! K+ K) n
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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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