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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.9 ?' U" X! i! c: g- P
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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.5 c3 `9 O9 D; _/ K x, f
( i* v; v# G* G4 R, y& `"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.3 ]' i6 P9 J; K7 }, G4 ?1 M! B# G5 a
3 H" Y" a7 B4 P' iIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.8 i8 V* c! z# u" G' T4 g2 V4 |
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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./ \2 I v1 M: \- N5 Z" [
/ h9 S5 b3 }+ d. D"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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