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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." f0 j! o; q2 \ S3 w) ]
: i, A$ c! Z. z- e' t* a2 W5 s"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.: ~* \4 ^- n$ [# `) G, A2 J
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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.( F0 m4 @' | {7 e; s5 G; @( ^
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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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1 H- a5 K% b8 Z"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.' d+ n8 Y$ ?0 w7 V
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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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