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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.
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- c0 F9 r3 k5 p/ l6 ]5 t"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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c5 P" X/ x3 i; _"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.& R+ }0 [& U5 a: ?0 h
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.) j l4 O6 E8 _; k( Q& u5 o0 B
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"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.8 v, J0 N2 t: b: w% G9 i" D
5 ?" Y9 \% I- S, R4 w" Y5 k"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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