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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.' k( ]; T, B c+ E" d
$ p) q/ y/ V2 [. \0 |"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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( u4 L1 \9 F% { n+ K5 \2 }" x( 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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, q0 V1 V1 Q, J( o6 Z3 Y o" ?Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.: g- @6 g J! c( e& t4 ~6 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.6 g e4 l% R3 V6 N4 ]( X
! ]& X& \7 c' r2 _" ?& V9 U3 H"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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