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Iman

Somali Model

Born: Jul 25, 1955

Always Girl Me Myself People You

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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture. Iman

Culture Own Our Never Had Because Wore

I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come. Iman

Me You Parents Otherwise States Would Lied Never Had Come Because Said Permission Leave Passport Get United United States Kenya

We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years! Iman

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious. Iman

Nerdy Never Studious Became Fit Very Child

I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' Iman

Time Fashion Seen Magazines Vogue Never Had Read Newsweek

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. Iman

People Picture Year Starving Out See Get After

I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones. Iman

Buy Home Three Before Suitable Would Cosmetics Something Came Go Mix Go Home Up Them Then Foundations Two

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60. Iman

Say New Friends Sixty Loved Loved Ones Who

My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come. Iman

Faith Daughter Flower Changed Would Given Name Come Like Look Anything Which Grandfather Means Meant Desert

I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it. Iman

Good Everybody Look Said Always Going Create

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps. Iman

Science Political Father Follow Studying Footsteps Political Science Going Adamant

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Iman

Believe Favor Vanity Rely Glamour Genes Am Just Little

I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry. Iman

Fashion Book Old Thought Say Possibly Could Write Industry Without Been Years Model Want Fashion Industry

I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish. Iman

Love Eating Only Like Fish Chicken Really Meat

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien. Iman

Alien Markets Multicultural

The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear. Iman

Life People Fear Most Stopped Successful Who

I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that. Iman

Great You Young Believe Universe Learn Us Plans

When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza. Iman

You Backyard Had Put Like Always Egypt Wore Your Lived

I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts. Iman

Me You See Rarely Legs Stand Skirts Start

We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world. Iman

World Girl Every Ruling Out Fabulous Look Want Wants While

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist. Iman

Fashion Me Culture People Girl Some People Think Other Some About Advance Know Industry Understand Always Behind Anything Who Helped Popular Popular Culture Fashion Industry Zeitgeist

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence. Iman

Life Silence You Yourself Interior World Will Critic Eat Horrible Outside Outside World Had Self-Esteem Because Within Up Low Low Self-Esteem Really Your Growing Growing Up Suffer Save

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