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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 T7 l4 U0 B# b* [: W5 N
+ F- R- k3 T6 D Q" R"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.% p5 s3 l* ?. I( J5 G" }
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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.- F& i4 Q* x5 D0 n- t3 Q
# r2 T/ G" n. TIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism./ p! n5 c" h! U0 c" ^' b2 V& Z/ [
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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.* ]( i- I' u, i) C, Q6 a) t" z7 y
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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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