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.
0 \5 E) [: K! u6 l/ `
: `  ]4 k+ j6 C0 c: I( W; {"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.
/ T9 W, r- Y! [* V; D: b8 `/ K- r
"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.
+ p% x- P- {8 M: i( l  M" e
0 H0 C7 A) D9 f) I& p: PIman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism.
1 u- Z. M8 A7 J
! A! ], K& G9 g3 S% N"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.
* H7 Y) X- p7 j
7 C- K/ p" v7 L% M" E5 _% p$ a"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.