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" I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts. "
Iman
You
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Stand
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house. "
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" I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do. "
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" People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. "
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" We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60. "
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" 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! "
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