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Iman

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Real Name:
Iman Abdulmajid
Nationality:
Somalian
Birthday:
July 25, 1955
Born in:
Mogadishu, Somalia
Lives now:
New York, NY
Agencies:
1 Model Management
Known for:
My elegance, my face
Status:
Good girl, retired (mostly), supermodel
Muse for:
Yves Saint Laurent
Married:
Spencer Haywood , David Bowie (since 4/24/92)
Children:
Zulekha Haywood (born 7/5/78), Alexandria Zahra Jones (born 8/15/00)
Friends with:
Alek Wek, Beverly Peele, Beyoncé, Chanel Iman, Donna Karan, Eva Mendes, Jay-Z, Julie Ordon, Katie Holmes, Naomi Campbell, Rachel Roy, Tom Cruise, Tyra Banks, Yasmin Warsame
Model turned…
Entrepreneur (Iman Cosmetics), activist (Keep a Child Alive), actress (Star Trek VI, 1991), author (The Beauty of Color, 2006; I Am Iman, 2001)
Interests:
Needlepoint

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Off the Runway

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Career

Vogue, 2000

Jul 25, 1955
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia
1975
Discovered by photographer Peter Beard
1977
Marries basketball player Spencer Haywood
Jul 5, 1978
Has a daughter, Zulekha Haywood
1979
Appears in an editorial spread in Vogue
1987
Divorces Spencer Haywood
1989
Retires from modeling, sells her New York apartment
1991
Cameo as a queen in Michael Jackson’s music video for “Remember the Time”
Dec 6, 1991
Plays Martia in Star Trek film
Apr 24, 1992
Marries David Bowie
Oct 1994
David Bowie interviews her in Interview magazine
Oct 14, 1994
Plays Nina Blackstone, a criminal, in Exit to Eden
1997
Appears with David Bowie on the Rosie O’Donnell Show
Nov 1999
Appears on cover of Vogue
Aug 15, 2000
Daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones is born
2001
Writes autobiography titled I Am Iman; David Bowie writes the forward
2005
Guest judge on America’s Next Top Model
2006
Writes The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color
2006
Appears as guest judge on Project Runway
2007
Plans to launch a fragrance
Mar 2007
Interviews Chanel Iman in Vibe
Jul 2007
Edits the Black Girls Rule! issue of Trace magazine, celebrates at Room Service in NYC
Jul 2007
Appears on cover of Vanity Fair’s Africa issue with actor Don Cheadle
Sep 2007
Appears on the September cover of Ebony magazine with Tyra Banks, Kimora Lee Simmons, and Alek Wek
Jul 2008
Appears in the all-black issue of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel

Quoted

“When I was in high school – we were like 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls – and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.”

UK Vogue (October 12, 2006)

“I met Andy [Warhol] on my third day in New York. ”

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