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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.% T4 `( a' S8 P. N
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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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6 I7 k; q, ^3 G1 G* @6 A; B# _"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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% n+ X. @) ]8 J5 a9 j9 |Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.4 h3 D. ?) o8 J+ R/ Y- m: k
/ M5 w: @% Q5 E! C+ P; k"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.$ t3 J" Y" H5 N7 g1 n+ o3 d
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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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