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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.4 U, ~$ k0 ?8 b% _& x f
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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.
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* Q/ H. H3 D9 s* W- j"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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2 e4 w- c, V% b5 k! \$ r/ RIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.% @" ~3 r2 G4 S0 P+ M2 a) d
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"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.( r: b; r V8 [+ {9 i# O
- N( Q0 ~/ A* c+ E7 h# x1 }5 r( W"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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