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Agree, also I'm not sure just how old Iman really is....a poster earlier in this thread had her at 68 (maybe a typo),
I've seen both 1951 and 1955 as her birth year on various web sites as well as celeb bio books/almanacs. She does look good, does not look that young though.
A celebrity who has aged well.... best example has to be ....
Joan Rivers ....turns 81 this month and looks mid 50s ....still funny too.
Have you actually seen Joan Rivers lately? She looks every bit of 81, even despite the very extensive plastic surgery she's had done.
Your statement makes it sound like everyone does that. I don't. I consider all these women to be hot.
Not sure of the source of these photos or the purpose for their organization. I think these photos are symptomatic of this thread. Certainly the faces of these young women are attractive irrespective of skin tone. Are they models? However, they all just seem to be variations of a "Western" ideal of beauty. By only being able to judge by their headshots, they all appear to be thin. The "Western" model beauty ideal of thinness is not universal, even in the "West". It reminds of a couple of Miss Universe contestants from a decade or so ago in which people were aghast because they were not rail thin. The one's below were the pictures I could find. I happen to think they were just as beautiful (if not more so) than the other contestants.
Also in your photos, there are a few African and South Asian headshots but none of the models appear to be particularly dark. Hundreds of millions of South Asian people are dark-skinned (darker than many Africans) and are rarely if ever held up as a standard of beauty all though there are plenty of very beautiful very dark tropical women!
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I beg to differ. I live in South Florida in a metro population of almost six million and not one Hispanic, Latino, or non Latino South America or of Caribbean origins considers themselves White. No one.
MTV did show black videos in the beginning but they showed very few. I remember Prince videos very few and far in between but they did come on occasionally.
To get back to the OP, I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't think Angelina Jolie is beautiful at all even though media tells me I'm wrong every day.
Cubans in Miami do not consider themselves white? You may want to travel south of the Broward County Line my friend. There are very sharp distinctions between the descendants of the first wave of Cuban exiles who were overwhelmingly of European descent vs. the Marielitos (and their descendants) who had discernibly more African heritage.
MTV absolutely did not show black videos in the beginning. People have looked at MTV Yearbooks at it appears that MTV was around for almost two years before even showing Prince's "Little Red Corvette" (hence my picture of Prince who wasn't exactly the "blackest" of artists - that's its own separate discussion). Although I am loathe to use Wikipedia as any sort of source, it's entry on MTV's color barrier is pretty accurate.
I definitely refute many of the revisionist claims made by the MTV personnel in the entry. To say that many of the black artists did not make videos is 1000% FALSE. The only reason why BET existed in the first place was to show the "black" videos that MTV would not (and to show reruns of black 70s sitcoms in syndication).
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, must be very good jeans...oops I mean genes.
