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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.: q: H" X! V* H3 I( ]
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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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# j- E! _3 u5 a6 M% S"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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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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7 O( t+ W' z5 H4 S9 t1 m, j6 S"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., _5 ?) m7 y0 a i# o) G% h; ? b
3 s( ?/ o+ b% j' _, G& Y8 R, B/ S, `"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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