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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.
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* n4 L) M5 ^7 K3 h* U"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./ O+ l+ \% B. m$ V
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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.2 X- T6 u8 T8 a$ V0 \# `% k7 x
% \- N/ x8 L' K4 O- EIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.9 o" `/ }: b+ ]+ B9 V% q4 U: o) i$ f
P z8 f% }+ |# h9 E3 `"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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8 q) o+ W; Z1 ~4 w"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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