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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.4 l: L9 W. j! M& ^; q* P
$ m4 A2 t2 O9 @4 M0 s, ^- v3 t"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. ]/ @6 ?% U$ Z. x9 B
' u) F# `; _0 {8 u j"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.5 u2 m" U( S/ h0 s" p2 {& V
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Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.7 {' L' X: I6 R; r
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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 D" B, j8 R# _8 \& l3 _
" A7 r% c, N$ g* T' |# N"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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