Michelle Obama no 'beauty' but 'bright': Iman

propeller

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.
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( L5 l9 l2 a0 K5 N. |* B6 a; y"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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5 M- c' ~; \7 q! p* w* O"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.

4 u# `5 x8 E6 XIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
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$ A8 o% i: J1 S! @  v( z0 Q2 O"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.
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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)."

billzhao

Agree, Mrs. Obama is very bright.