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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.; v, |7 c0 q: E( `- p0 z7 Q: e3 j
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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.5 @+ n5 h7 Y- Y! r
4 X3 o$ B: ]. v& J# j6 a2 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. p1 {2 Y- h0 J/ T0 j/ M9 c
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism. M. U5 M. X) g$ r, U! s. t
' H+ t1 t! t2 L7 B& V7 ?$ k |"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.$ R+ b* g# W2 J3 `: I4 x6 J
- i6 a+ x* o& p"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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