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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.% i8 d8 J, C; {" V0 a. a
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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.
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% E A# S* @1 w ^; y) ?"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.- z! K$ v2 w4 T: n7 g1 T
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.; V( F4 }' ]( F) G6 j
- n% z3 F8 O. F"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.0 U8 T$ j" Y; ^' G5 [
3 w! h- M% x y( i5 @8 ^"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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