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Iman: “First Lady Is No Great Beauty”

By Deborah Bennett, Senior Editor May 15, 2009 6:15 pm

Iman, one of the first black supermodels gives the First Lady a back-handed compliment when she told Parade magazine that Michelle Obama is not a “great beauty,” but will “just get better with age.”

Michelle Obama gets fun and flirty.

The supermodels goes on to say:

“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.”

Iman is now a successful businesswoman with a new line of handbags and accessories to accompany her Iman skin care and fragrance line.

Check out our gallery of the two beauties:

TAGS: beauty, Iman, michelle obama, Parade
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  • SoularFlarez
    SoularFlarez
    5-22-2009 7:36 pm

    im sorry but Mrs. Obama is kinda funny lookin but hey thats Barack’s wife so i dont really giva f**k…..lol

  • SexyMel02
    SexyMel02
    5-22-2009 3:55 pm

    all ima say is what

  • kendrick106
    kendrick106
    5-22-2009 11:22 am

    no body mess wit momma

  • cestleon
    cestleon
    5-21-2009 7:18 pm

    Iman should not talk…..I’m still trying to see why she finds dried up assed David Bowie so attractive. He looks like a half decomposed lizard with a bad wig!

  • SR1G
    SR1G
    5-21-2009 4:58 pm

    The way the President looks at her, I don’t think Mrs. Obama really gives a dang what Iman thinks about her. Beauty fades with age, everybody knows that. Having a good heart, intelligence and personality lasts a lifetime.

  • REION
    REION
    5-21-2009 10:25 am

    Models always trying to down someone botu something and they not happy with they self or wish she was in Michelle shoes hell, who is she she had to pose all her life to make money and the first lady worked hard and made tings happen with her sucess, along with her children and wondeful husband. Imani get a life cause to me it seem u have nothing else better to do with yourself.

  • Linda29
    Linda29
    5-21-2009 8:35 am

    I wonder if Iman has any idea of what it means to be a GREAT beauty – this is beauty that will last ALL your life long, not just when you are young and pretty. Michelle Obama does not need a ton of makeup, she is not trying to hide ageing signs & she is not posing to make money. She is where every other woman in this world wants to be. She is not in competition with you Iman so F off and let her be. She is busy with the important issues of life and not what to cover up the newest wrinkles with

  • jmee1002
    jmee1002
    5-21-2009 3:58 am

    Iman is exotically beautiful ,but who is SHE to F with the FIRST LADY? Cmon now everyone-gimme a break…

  • DARKHEARTPHENIX
    DARKHEARTPHENIX
    5-20-2009 11:09 pm

    The comment was kinda b***hy,
    Michelle Obama is an attractive lady
    She may not be A SUPER MODEL but she don’t have to be.I’m looking at the type of leader she is or is not,and what she can do,and will do.

  • Lay_D_50
    Lay_D_50
    5-20-2009 1:45 pm

    i hated when models look down on other women to make themselves feel better. my mother always told me if you aint got nothing good to say the dont say anything at all. Michelle is where every woman would love to be. so stop the hatin. be foreal. if you ask me (and this is just my opinon) i think its jealousy!

  • Lay_D_50
    Lay_D_50
    5-20-2009 1:44 pm

    i hated when models look down on other women to make themselves feel better. instead. my mothe always told me if you aint got nothing good to say the dont say anything at all. Michelle is where every woman would love to be. so stop the hatin. be foreal. if you ask me (and this is just my opinon) i think its jealousy!

  • sekoo63
    sekoo63
    5-20-2009 1:02 pm

    Truth be told Michelle Obama is no raving beauty. At best she is a “handsome woman” but I don’t know any man that would ignore her. She has grace and “presence”.

    Iman just said what’s on the minds of some. She does not possess the black American affinity to avoid stating the obvious when it comes to powerful black people. In fact, Iman’s words are somewhat ironic for if you took away her fake hair/eye lashes/pound of make up, I doubt if anyone would afford her any special attention. She’d just be a middle aged woman who could use a can or two of Ensure! Most of the working models I see are never the finest on the street but “fine” is subjective.

    At the end of the day, Michelle Obama is a keeper. I agree that she will get better with age but she’s in her prime right now. And a lot of us wish we had a woman like her.

  • psilentstorm
    psilentstorm
    5-20-2009 12:25 pm

    If Michelle were a single woman, I’d prefer her anyday compared to an over-the-hill psuedo-sista super model. Michelle is a beautiful woman, inside and out. I remember President Obama talking about how when he first started dating her, you could see the road through the bottom of his car. A woman who considers a mans character and potential first is a blessing. A hater who has to date men of a different ethnicity to feel they’ve “arrived” and make stupid statements is a curse!

  • Azaria99
    Azaria99
    5-20-2009 11:44 am

    Michelle Obama is a very beautiful woman, I feel some African women are intimidated by the beauty of black American women. But all this coming from a woman married to a White man no where near as handsome as our President.

  • The_One_Mykimoto
    The_One_Mykimoto
    5-19-2009 9:33 pm

    Ok, Iman didnt make it on beauty. SHe made it cus she looks funny and I thought her of all people would have understood that. She just lost a couple of cool points with me

  • renegadeB
    renegadeB
    5-19-2009 8:04 pm

    Iman who?

  • wynwyn2005
    wynwyn2005
    5-19-2009 7:19 pm

    I think back to my sister and how she handled her haters and girls who would make bad comments about her looks. She’d say “I know somebody who likes it!” That shut the girls up because they didn’t have a boyfriend or one worth anything!. Mrs. Obama can say “I know someone who likes it!” The President of the United States likes what she has. You can’t get any higher than that!

  • a_chicago_cutie1
    a_chicago_cutie1
    5-19-2009 5:38 pm

    I think Iman is just hating right now. Michelle get to go home everyday to fine azzzzzzzz Barrack and Iman has to take her 5 head ass home to old wrinkled ass David Bowie. Michelle is saying herself, “don’t hate me because you ain’t me”. Iman is just the typical black woman hating on another black woman.

  • MRSHOWARD41
    MRSHOWARD41
    5-19-2009 5:09 pm

    No great beauty! Oh no she didn’t. Just because Iman is a supermodel don’t make her a great beauty. Michelle got it going on and Iman is just jealous. Iman need to check her self! And by the way, as you aged dear, you ant all that.

  • Rizingceleb
    Rizingceleb
    5-19-2009 4:08 pm

    iman cannot talk….she is ugly….Michelle is fierce

  • STEPHANIE77TX
    STEPHANIE77TX
    5-19-2009 1:24 pm

    I think she is beautiful. In every way. She has class. She isnt afraid to be herself. I think she is great looking now and yes will continue to be as she ages. You see when a woman of any color carries herself well, is smart and thinks on her own instead of trying to “fit a mold” of what society thinks we ought to look like, she is beautiful. Like Mandisa said ” god made me in his image, that makes me a beauty queen.” Besides why would you ever comment to a journalist on the looks of a woman in the position that Michelle Obama is in? Just makes you look bad, Iman. Who is she to decide what a “great beauty” is?

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