How supermodel Iman broke the law to get into America

Iman has carved her career as not only beautiful but also principled and intelligent – but don’t let that convince you that she’s above a little naughtiness, or even a lot. In her younger years, the model – who has been married to David Bowie for more than 20 years – originally entered the US, where she now lives, illegally.

“I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18,” the Somali-born supermodel told New York Magazine. “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.”

Since at the time she was studying at Nairobi University, Iman assumed that her parents would never know she had travelled to New York, but – as anyone who has had a party while their parents were on holiday can attest – parental radar is unassailable.

“You know how they found out? I was in Newsweek a week later,” she said. “It’s the only magazine my father reads, and the next thing, he’s reading, and there’s a picture of me in New York, saying, ‘She’s the hottest model now.’ I broke the law, but nobody can touch me now! I’m 60 years old, it’s too late. The time has passed.”

Source: British Vogue

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