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Iman
View off-the-runway photos- 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
- elegance, face
- Status
- Retired (mostly), good girl, supermodel
- Muse For
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Friends
- Beyoncé, Julie Ordon, Tyra Banks, Beverly Peele, Jay-Z, Naomi Campbell, Eva Mendes, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Rachel Roy, Chanel Iman, Alek Wek, Yasmin Warsame, Donna Karan
- Married
- Spencer Haywood (1977-1987), David Bowie (since 4/24/92)
- Children
- Zulekha Haywood (born 7/5/78), Alexandria Zahra Jones (born 8/15/00)
- Interests
- Needlepoint
- Model Turned...
- activist, actress, Entrepreneur (Iman Cosmetics), author (The Beauty of Color, 2006; I Am Iman, 2001)
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Quoted
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“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 -
“I met Andy [Warhol] on my third day in New York. ”
—Interview magazine -
“I am just happy that in my heyday -- when I was in my twenties, and I was drunk and stupid -- there was no TMZ.”
—New York Magazine
Iman's Career Highlights
- 25 JUL, 1955
- Born in Mogadishu, Somalia
- 1975
- Discovered by photographer Peter Beard
- 1977
- Marries basketball player Spencer Haywood
- 5 JUL, 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”
- 6 DEC, 1991
- Plays Martia in Star Trek film
- 24 APR, 1992
- Marries David Bowie
- OCT 1994
- David Bowie interviews her in Interview magazine
- 14 OCT, 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
- 15 AUG, 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
- APR 2009
- Stars in a video with Ubah Hassan discussing race and diversity in modeling. Video»
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