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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.) }* P- p; A2 I1 X+ n, e
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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.% X% p6 p1 F4 p7 H" M* B( M! G% g8 n
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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.
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# W7 u' P7 N% `' j) j8 e9 T9 r4 R' h# e& nIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.. K" K$ r0 j' ]1 e0 `2 |" R
. w7 [+ @" V/ o/ 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.; d- F* w: S5 K! Q* Q+ K" H7 o
7 `# s9 _+ a' ?* `( S"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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