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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.* Z) K. Q9 z2 O6 }7 E- I+ C/ L- M8 J
2 L, `1 d3 k- I, l2 |( z& X0 w- d" m+ h"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. c" J+ w( @0 s9 Y1 p w+ H, c
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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.( {6 b$ g }! M
! P2 G# Q3 z6 i' f8 L1 [Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.+ f" e& U( m5 ]1 }; @! o/ J
0 A) I; _( x' w% K. a"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 X9 s: d4 B7 s8 b) |9 V; p
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"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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