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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.3 z8 Q- D3 D" G( m% C6 R7 t
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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., b! F* p* ?( Z) k; x" |
V6 c; H1 v: Q. P$ ?"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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: y$ r; S$ n6 J/ X: t+ o lIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.% f7 {6 k. v' E+ [: N" \
5 r! }1 L. l/ U0 [' _, {" o"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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8 c1 q- @7 Q1 o/ n# Y J"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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