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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.2 t% z* S9 L+ c7 ?2 Q
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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.3 D, o7 j0 P4 t# L2 z' d$ G
7 j8 ^: N5 u; H. J8 P, ?"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.9 f% k. x4 j1 R1 y& H$ n
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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3 m& r) ~3 K1 q& ]"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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4 X; O! u5 D5 `5 {4 `6 H- I5 o"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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