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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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3 g3 q3 M9 B/ 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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2 F' a" p( Q+ f4 g% K; G- ?; {"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., h8 [# Y+ T2 s" ~& k, {
4 {. ?4 c6 d1 A, N( w8 Z' f1 iIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.; D4 o; g: D5 s4 H
6 Y. I, j" L! h( _' g* D"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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"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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