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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.( W# `& ^) }7 n+ {1 g5 q
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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.& A4 O. M2 A1 H: G7 ~
7 F# ^. i8 k5 p+ k"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.* `! Y1 O$ }, X+ P
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.) x" }+ J! D% [' m; S$ g0 B `
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"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." u+ N! Z- y' U
2 Y' `8 @' c0 e6 z"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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