Michelle Obama no 'beauty' but 'bright': Iman

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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.

+ D3 k: K- F2 ^! @"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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/ c) g& k7 C0 |2 t8 E9 K+ n5 c) w"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.

0 i6 w: |8 R* t# ~) `: t% U, GIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.

$ \( Y5 S+ D4 C+ G( Y( ^"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.
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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)."

billzhao

Agree, Mrs. Obama is very bright.