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" There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire. "

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" 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

Home

Before

" 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

Restaurant

Hands

" I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old. "

" I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me. "

Iman

Speech

Right

" Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter. "

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

" I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple. "

" Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. "

Iman

Persona

Singer

" Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. "

" One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed. "

" When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl. "

" I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me. "

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

" At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line. "

" I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day. "

Iman

Ready

Every Day

" 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. "

" My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman. "

Iman

Men

Positive

" 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. "

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

" There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. "

" Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field. "

Iman

Cultures

Lesson

" I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile. "

" I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly. "

" Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard. "

" I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me. "

Iman

Say

Beauty

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

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

Iman

Meat

Fish

" I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace. "

Iman

Versace

Been

" The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience. "

" Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good. "