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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.! t7 Z0 Q6 E7 m' Y& h# E
* |) d9 E' x! f7 \"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., j( |) w: q0 x, q& b
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"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.2 z; e, f0 [# i7 @) ^* W# j* {4 Y+ A
4 e9 b$ K @; g! B7 AIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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/ _) k7 Z: V1 v- @& F; @4 _"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.% z3 H" s& |: Y8 a7 B* `0 N/ b# { q
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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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