The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
From Iman
I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. 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.
We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!
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