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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.- }6 J9 U- T/ a2 ~* E& H& {" C* b
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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.* p. @: {$ Z6 I8 n2 ~6 q
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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.* m/ j, @9 }6 ?7 l2 W$ A/ q. ?
) r$ }9 V8 m8 N2 z3 {* `Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.- J* S6 q7 G- x4 f
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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.3 n) F" l& F4 ]% n# O6 e K. D; X
. U+ g; p" h, \; p' L1 \"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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