Supermodel Iman: Good Genes or Good Docs?

76. It is sad that Inman although claims to be proud of her Africian roots, seems to be looking more White these days!! She can cover up her Africian heritage "above", but everthing "below", she cannot change, as God has given all Africian descebdents the genes they were born with. Hollwood can change a black person to look White( although I still don't know why all these black people are changing their skin color and general appearance to look more White), but babies born by her will still inherit diseases in genes carried by her, including sickle cell anemia. In truth, the blacks are destroying this country with their Africianized ways!

Posted at 10:11AM on Oct 28th 2008 by vinny

77. This woman is no longer considered a black woman... and it is obvious that she hates being black, and chooses to lighten her skin, so as to increase the wrinkles and cracks that affect mostly Whites at a later age. Why don't all the blacks simply contact vitaligo, and this would remove the skin pigment that gives a person their color, and their problem of being black, that they hate so bad, would be solved! Even Obama is not really black, but everyone calls him that, the fact that his mother was white, but they still call him black. Fact is the black genes are more prominent, and therefore show more on the black side on an interracial child. But of course, with all these black men having children with dumb blonde White women, makes the skin color even more predominantly White. So, in essence they have the genetic code to changing their color, making another race, and in the process destroying a race!

Posted at 10:22AM on Oct 27th 2008 by doc

78. This is a pointless discussion. It is a fact that she had her face reconstructed after she was in a car accident back in 1983. I can't believe how some of you've allowed yourselves to be tricked by TMZ into having this racial debate. The majority of people voting good docs is not an issue of race. I repeat it is not an issue of race. The ones that voted good genes were probably unaware of her 1983 car accident that required her to have facial surgery. I'm quite sure that she would have aged nicely without the help of doctors but the fact remains that she had to have facial surgery as the result of a car accident. There should be no further discussion.

Posted at 10:57AM on Oct 27th 2008 by Crystal

79. I am about Iman's color and 50. I don't have any wrinkles. I also darken CONSIDERABLY when I am in the sun. When I return from the Caribbean, I am "unrecognizable." I know that if I lived even in Florida, I would be a much darker woman. (Not all blacks "tan" in this way, but many of us do, particularly if we are naturally lighter in the first place.) Pictures taken in different lights and at different times of the year show me in different skin tones. And, finally, bleaching creams don't actually work. Michael Jackson lost all of his pigamentation... he did not bleach himself white! But it's obvious that Iman has had some work done following her accident that changed the shape of her face somewhat.

Posted at 11:11AM on Oct 27th 2008 by Sami

80. I know nothing that leads me to believe the MJ is ALL White! Vitilago, which affects a large majority of the population, affects mostly parts of the face, the ankles, and the pubic area. I have never seen this disease remove all skin pigment on any person, White or Black. Since this disease affects the body in blotches or patches, I suspect any person including Inman and MJ and others, use some other medication to remove skin pigment completely, but gradual. The disease that MJ claims to have would not completely, uniformly make the face lighter, but show patches of white, but he most positively could cover them up with enough makeup. As for Inman, she looks like she is from the planet of Czar!

Posted at 10:03AM on Oct 28th 2008 by doc

81. looks like Inman did a stretch on Star Trek, before and after!!.... And will the real Inman Mohamed Abdulmajid Bowie... please stand up!!

Posted at 11:51AM on Oct 27th 2008 by doc

82. #12 stop lying black actesses want to be white with all the extentions and implants and skin bleaching nose jobs eye contacts of blue, so dont kid youself...anyway they have to try and do things to look white because as soon as black men become successful they go after white women...so explain that one...eg: tiger woods ice tea need i go on

Posted at 11:56AM on Oct 27th 2008 by just_sayin Palin Mc Cain

83. I would never guess that this is the same person if they didn't say so...

Posted at 1:02PM on Oct 27th 2008 by Lauren

84. She did NOT bleach her skin, #10. I am biracial and I am waaaaaaaaaaay lighter now than I was when I was younger. I was in the sun all of the time and became much darker. As an adult, I stay out of the sun and wear sunscreen so I am lighter. I look like I am a totally different color now than when I was a child. Another factor is that in the 70's, there were hardly any black models. They did not even make make-up in her color. She either did her own make-up or had a crappy artist do the best they could with the rotten make-up that they had. Imans' presence in the modeling industry instilled a great deal of esteem and racial pride in black women worldwide. She is a role model and a class act. She is proud to be who she is and would never bleach her skin. She currently has a make-up line made for ethnic skin. Tyra, Naomi, and all of the black models of today should not only thank Iman, they should learn a thing or two from her.

Posted at 2:55PM on Oct 27th 2008 by Ridingdiva

85. Ignorant white people do not know that "black does not crack"

Posted at 3:49PM on Oct 27th 2008 by Quetou

86. "black does not crack" but they do smoke a lot of crack

Posted at 5:02PM on Oct 27th 2008 by BJ

87. Its because of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
David Bowie is, like, totally out there; like, wow, man.
He's like ultra-dimensional, and multi-temporal.
Like, the here is now, but then, it was, but yet to be will happen; isn't it.

Posted at 6:51PM on Oct 29th 2008 by dusty

88. It is always about race anymore, it don't matter about what color she is. If there was no name on the bottom, aleast I woudn't know who it was the same person period.

Posted at 11:39AM on Jan 22nd 2009 by Watchman