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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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! y& w* h" ?0 p8 o"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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"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 P. }3 n# k. e- L2 n+ a
6 N1 {) n, c: l( k/ X/ R! T4 @Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.. A" b( m9 ?/ C2 A. Y9 D/ d [
: w' ?+ O+ S; X4 L"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.( O- M0 }5 x E5 `/ ^3 m
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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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