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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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"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.1 L* E \8 k( }: E1 p5 Z' s
\! ]# I9 Y. d& T2 x' h"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.) J4 f" R( @- v. Y
. W0 \8 d( u& e4 wIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.* t! Z+ u" l2 I5 ]4 B) E- G
9 T7 K$ z b! d3 P8 i1 @"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.: L$ X5 |/ U; [* Y$ ~$ ]% o
- S# M w5 @# u+ z/ D) I! t5 N2 Z"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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