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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 O/ G3 {: n/ `4 t k/ h8 X% T
0 R( B& w. l& x4 U* a"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.6 {- h3 y' F9 y1 B7 J( F; j; _2 P
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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.; i# Y H4 n6 M0 B
* T, H" m; J# n7 R) y W, pIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.5 ]" s, E5 t6 F
) t5 \& q# @ t3 |# k5 [4 D"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./ D" g0 N/ N- Y" z/ v3 u G, }
' y- M7 C) Z4 H"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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