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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.! D- H. ?( q4 C. T1 r( H$ y- A
) p, R! K" `* {% q' x"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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9 G) C2 i% q9 q& q$ O9 s"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.; b) E# J h$ y. n7 m
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.2 |6 h2 ]1 t ]/ a7 S
, C! `' L6 |, q! 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.% \, c5 C, G2 V# j2 G) Y4 m6 I
5 L" ~8 f2 W$ r7 L7 }"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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