IMAN on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse

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As the first black super model, Iman revolutionized an industry that hesitated to acknowledge those who were "different." Despite her struggles with shyness and looks she describes as "nothing special" she took New York, and then the world, by storm. From there she built a cosmetics empire, stretched her acting legs in numerous films, and married pop superstar David Bowie. On this episode of "InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse," our conversation with international super model Iman.

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@vanessaclark3443
@vanessaclark3443 8 жыл бұрын
Iman was more than a supermodel and David Bowie's wife. The wisdom, depth, and insight, and intelligence of this woman is pretty extraordinary and moving. I have so much love and respect for Iman. She's so inspiring.
@phillipgregory9671
@phillipgregory9671 5 жыл бұрын
Vanessa Clark yes she is great and I believe she raised bowie up.he was a different person after he met her.She transformed him.
@siswitvision75
@siswitvision75 11 ай бұрын
Yes, I'm sitting here thinking I would love to go to an event where she is the speaker. So intelligent 🤔😊💞👍
@MrAronRobinson
@MrAronRobinson 10 жыл бұрын
I admit I only looked for this because I'm a Bowie fan, but I'm so impressed by this articulate and smart woman. And what a lovely voice! I could listen to either of them talking all day.
@mnb9162
@mnb9162 5 жыл бұрын
Yea, you can see she is stunning which attracted Bowie but what he probably didnt realise at first was just how strong and similar they are in terms of having strong opinions and really curious personalities.
@zephyrquartz
@zephyrquartz 8 жыл бұрын
I like Iman. David Bowie was very lucky to find her.
@MsJules1976
@MsJules1976 8 жыл бұрын
+zephyrquartz After watching this interview,I can see why he fell in love with her.
@breahsaldana3901
@breahsaldana3901 6 жыл бұрын
Big fan of both Iman and David Bowie,,, they we're perfect for each other
@toriegrant2738
@toriegrant2738 11 жыл бұрын
Good interview. I love this woman. She is so right. Africa is a continent not a bloody country. She looks like a typical East African woman. I look like a typical West African woman. However, we are both black and beautiful. Go Iman.
@TheMolabola
@TheMolabola 6 жыл бұрын
torie grant yes, west african women are beautiful we have to set our own standards of beauty in africa, im sick of this discrimination and division of black people in africa.
@norahherbie8537
@norahherbie8537 8 жыл бұрын
David and Iman they are a blessing of love for each other, rest in peace David..my heart goes out to Iman and Lexi and Duncan and other loved ones.
@teezee3677
@teezee3677 8 жыл бұрын
Bowie finally found true Love with Iman...you can see the healthy transformation in him and feel that vibe of happiness when they are together...
@phillipgregory9671
@phillipgregory9671 5 жыл бұрын
Tee Zee yes u can literally see how she transformed him
@aibcomeback
@aibcomeback 13 жыл бұрын
this interviewer is so infatuated with her. He's clinging on her every word, but then again wouldn't we? She's so stunning!
@champflowahbomb7630
@champflowahbomb7630 4 жыл бұрын
We all are 😃 she's beautiful
@Majeed.
@Majeed. 8 жыл бұрын
an intelligent, insightful and inspiring Somali Queen ♥ Iman abdulmajid is truly one of a kind. her influence in the model idustry is undeniable. anyone would be lucky to have known this lady
@cozmo9862
@cozmo9862 7 жыл бұрын
Such intelligence, such beauty, and such conviction towards her views. Bless her heart. I'd love to sit down and talk to her like this, just about her.
@billlarstead8019
@billlarstead8019 10 жыл бұрын
Back in 90', David & Iman came into the high end Japanese rest, Robata in Beverly. Hills (I was the bartender) for dinner. All the staff raved about how gracious & polite they both were and what a pleasure it was to wait on them. Genuine class. The total opposite was Robert DeNiro, who I greatly admire as an actor, but what a foul mouth this guy has & an attitude to match. The way he cussed out Naomi Campbell & her girlfriend would have made a sailor blush. Really sad to see & hear.
@synthvault
@synthvault 10 жыл бұрын
Bill this isn't TMZ.
@somalihalimo4993
@somalihalimo4993 8 жыл бұрын
+MechanicalAnimal LOOOOOL I KNOW RIGHT. LIKE RELAX BILL.
@lavishheights
@lavishheights 2 жыл бұрын
Great Memory ❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌
@musicfreaksmith5817
@musicfreaksmith5817 8 жыл бұрын
She's even more beautiful in person! Her skin is flawless....she's stunning....
@CarolynMurie
@CarolynMurie 10 жыл бұрын
Iman's story would be movie-worthy....she is practically royalty...almost an Anastasia....she should publish her life story if she hasn't!
@TinyDancer250
@TinyDancer250 5 жыл бұрын
She has. Search on Amazon. David wrote the forward.
@RKS4581
@RKS4581 8 жыл бұрын
Wow! What an impressive woman and interview!
@miltsar
@miltsar 11 жыл бұрын
When I was a young art director in NYC I booked Iman for a Bloomingdale's billing insert. Even at that time, before she was married to Bowie and before she became a spokesman and symbol for the rights of African women, I was aware of her intelligence and sensitivity. And she was an incredible model...professional and aware of what he job was and how to give her best. I admire her.
@apples2go1
@apples2go1 8 жыл бұрын
this woman is amazing. she's sounds very educated and speaks with obvious intelligence, i just love hearing her talk. i wish her and her family love and my deepest sympathies...rest well david.
@user-kg8xo4cb7l
@user-kg8xo4cb7l Ай бұрын
The lady is educated indeed!!
@debramorphett9278
@debramorphett9278 7 жыл бұрын
Listening to this interview makes me appreciate why Iman and David jones ( Bowie ) got together and found happiness together ...wonderful
@GekeHopWassink
@GekeHopWassink 8 жыл бұрын
What a beatiful and inspiring women Iman is. I lost my love almost 15 years ago and I can imagen how she must feel now, but he lives on in her heart RIp David
@australopithecusss
@australopithecusss 5 жыл бұрын
I admire Iman, she's been through the fire, and she's come out the other side, still beautiful, articulate, intelligent and wise, very wise. Love her, she's so down to Earth. "Vacuous beauty is empty." "Beauty and content." Iman I love that she teaches people to not let others devalue them. If you love and value yourself, and know who you are, nobody can take that from you. We celebrate you Iman, thank you for celebrating all of us.
@LaburnumAnagyroides
@LaburnumAnagyroides 8 жыл бұрын
Insightful, smart, genuine, balanced and wonderful woman. They've been lucky to find each other.
@FAinab1
@FAinab1 10 жыл бұрын
Somalis and Somalia are proud of her
@munirayussuf3575
@munirayussuf3575 3 жыл бұрын
very true
@braveheartshininglight821
@braveheartshininglight821 8 жыл бұрын
They had a connection and came together for a reason. The work continues!...:-)
@blueangel1939
@blueangel1939 3 жыл бұрын
She really embodies the true beauty, intelligence, strength and grace of a somali women. Somalia is more than proud to have such a gem like her. 🇸🇴
@munirayussuf3575
@munirayussuf3575 3 жыл бұрын
so true im proud of her
@sylviajimenez1970
@sylviajimenez1970 11 жыл бұрын
beauty comes with content and she has both, beautiful Iman! she's an inspiration.
@sandratansley8764
@sandratansley8764 Жыл бұрын
She embodies perfection. I can se9e why David fell immediately for her. Intelligent, beautiful, honest and a real class act. David was just like that. A couple made in heaven. Their baby was what David needed too a real family. He loved his son immensely but Iman gave him all that he wanted and longed for. She was her own person and so was David. They were the epitome of true love and respected each other. Iman I wish I could talk with you. I admire you sooo much.
@ifra3105
@ifra3105 6 жыл бұрын
“Every little girl should want to be herself “ .
@HamzaWarsame
@HamzaWarsame 8 жыл бұрын
Africa is a continent not a country we all look different and have different cultures and languages.people need to know that and not say we are not black enough
@DutchinKorea
@DutchinKorea 10 жыл бұрын
I think she meant to say Cushitic and not Bantu. Even though she's very African. I'm glad she shared her views on how people categorize Africans only as Africans, instead of region / countries. Africa is the most diverse continent on earth.
@champflowahbomb7630
@champflowahbomb7630 4 жыл бұрын
This was a real interview. She's a tough lady it's so inspiring. I like she's honest about the industry Even though she's so successful. Alot of successful people don't want to admit the crappy part of the profession, their scared. But I like her guts.
@alisoncain769
@alisoncain769 8 жыл бұрын
Excellent interview with a woman I really respect.
@MastersGraduate2023
@MastersGraduate2023 8 жыл бұрын
Iman is a very deep insightful woman with a big heart to have her own cosmetic brand for people of color & Caucasians. She doesn't even approve of being single out & being preferred before African American's that's why she is speaking out for other black models too.
@darkmaitri
@darkmaitri 8 жыл бұрын
Iman and David Bowie and Yoko and John Lennon both had an incredible impact on me as a young woman. Growing up in 1960's - 70's America mixed-race with no white, was harder than many now would think. I hated looking how I looked and had a strange inner hope that something would somehow help me to look more white. It wasn't that I hated myself. I feel like I saw and felt my own value as a human. But I felt like others didn't. When they saw me they saw my skin color first. Other characteristics and talents I possessed were secondary or tertiary. Around the time I was twenty-three (1983) I learned Bowie had married Iman. I was surprised and part of me was bewildered. Like many other young women then and now, the constructions of beauty that proliferate in the media were how I interpreted beauty, as well. At that time there were very few women of color in the media, as actresses, models, artists, politicians, anything! But with these two marriages I began to feel like maybe there were men and people in general who would be able to see me as possibly beautiful and not as defective. You really cannot imagine what it is like to have feelings like that. Franz Fanon, a writer who had a big impact on critical theory describes how a inner colonisation can happen when a child and later adult is surrounded by images and messages that state who they are does not matter. So he imparts quite well what it is like. Anyhow, I recognised Iman and Yoko had to be really impressive and uniquely dazzling women to be loved by such dynamic and impressive men. And I set about becoming my own impressively dynamic woman. So Thank You Iman for being You! Because it has meant so much to Me! :)
@darkmaitri
@darkmaitri 8 жыл бұрын
Ewwww.... well forgive me for a mistake. Can you not read? Or is it having to process complex ideas that is circumnavigating your comprehension? Should I attempt to reword it in a more prosaic idiom?
@darkmaitri
@darkmaitri 8 жыл бұрын
If someone is bored by these issues I would sincerely question their ability to be compassionate. And I would feel sad for them. Passion about our lived experiences is one the few places where the mundane can be infused with the energy that is passion. And bored is so opposite an engaged and passionate experience. But truthfully, I could care less if someone became bored. I didn't write it only for them. Most artists recognize once you put something out there, it is no longer yours and you cannot go about explainjng your words, photo, whatever, in an attempt to manage people's reactions or interpretations.
@l.b.2592
@l.b.2592 8 жыл бұрын
Though Iman is a unique beauty, She is NOT the first Black super model. May her husband rest in peace.
@Loxijay
@Loxijay 9 жыл бұрын
Iman is an inspiration for me.
@anyier1
@anyier1 10 жыл бұрын
This woman look exactly like my mum, it's so funny people could look so alike. you're beautiful Iman.
@hashihas1845
@hashihas1845 8 жыл бұрын
love her speech, she always speaks well chooses wisdom words, has peace inside, stay away problems. she is beautiful don't envy. find 50 old look good most people fat when in 50. Can even go bathroom fast.
@SandraSoll
@SandraSoll 8 жыл бұрын
amazing woman
@yourmom-qd9ek
@yourmom-qd9ek 2 жыл бұрын
I love what she said -that vacuous beauty has no value, but having depth, a mind and character sprinkled with a little beauty is wonderful. She said that she has met some very beautiful people who are quite ugly- Amen! Just because someone looks nice to the eye- does not mean they have true beauty, humility, kindness, strength of character. Iman is my new favorite person!
@kediye2001
@kediye2001 11 жыл бұрын
congratulation iman, nice interview. thanks for the upload.
@MaleOrderBride
@MaleOrderBride 10 жыл бұрын
I love love love Iman! Especially her honesty about how Americans define her as a "black model"...when she only considers herself a "model". Americans are so hung up on race, it's embarrassing to the rest of the world.
@mercymukuhi2995
@mercymukuhi2995 8 жыл бұрын
Whooow I her accent! she is smart n divine
@purrball16
@purrball16 11 жыл бұрын
i love her!! Firstly, She's so freakin beautiful! and Second I love how intelligent she is! Amazing!
@misscamay
@misscamay 6 жыл бұрын
Beauty, class and wisdom!
@bvandyke10
@bvandyke10 7 жыл бұрын
when Iman says she quit the modeling business in 1980, did she mean runway modeling? Because she continued to do photography modeling throughout the 90's and 2000's and still does it to this day I believe. She just did an H&M line
@HS-ie8tj
@HS-ie8tj 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, she means high fashion.
@deesee3622
@deesee3622 5 жыл бұрын
she stopped modeling in 89 - she wanted to do more; love her makeup line
@walterc.charlescampbelllll8485
@walterc.charlescampbelllll8485 10 жыл бұрын
beautiful Iman forever
@20somethingsworld97
@20somethingsworld97 8 жыл бұрын
Where's her eyebrows. At
@frantisekjanosik5339
@frantisekjanosik5339 4 жыл бұрын
@@20somethingsworld97 her eyebrows is in Somalia..
@20somethingsworld97
@20somethingsworld97 4 жыл бұрын
Frantisek Janosik took me 3 years to get answer, thank you.
@20somethingsworld97
@20somethingsworld97 4 жыл бұрын
Frantisek Janosik stfu rude ass that’s actually not funny, fuck outta here
@keepcreationprocess
@keepcreationprocess 11 жыл бұрын
Oh The woman is amazing . I love really really confident women, espec. when they are black. I look up to her. She is not a wanna be confident person, but a real one.
@pietajanssenvanelst2167
@pietajanssenvanelst2167 11 ай бұрын
Clever ,hard working, beautiful and lot's of humor! That is Iman!
@KDL1464
@KDL1464 3 ай бұрын
What a wonderful interview. ❤
@RidzRulz4
@RidzRulz4 11 жыл бұрын
I love her so much honestly so beautiful bone structure her nose and everything
@frantisekjanosik5339
@frantisekjanosik5339 6 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN..
@dannythomson5145
@dannythomson5145 6 жыл бұрын
stunning and smart...
@miamonroe3246
@miamonroe3246 4 жыл бұрын
A very important interview...hope they keep this up..Iman dropped so much gems here🙌
@martinushieronimus8588
@martinushieronimus8588 5 жыл бұрын
She is inspiring. Intellegent! I always like her answers on the questions delivered to her. But Iman, I think you must check Indonesia for your Iman Cosmetics and 'beauty pageant?' 😊
@rufarooxun5754
@rufarooxun5754 10 жыл бұрын
amazing
@jacquelinejones7877
@jacquelinejones7877 5 жыл бұрын
She is beautiful & intelligent. She possesses lots of depth and substance!
@FikiNom
@FikiNom 8 жыл бұрын
classy
@BoudicaJ
@BoudicaJ 8 жыл бұрын
She.Is.Gorgeous x
@jeffreyrichardson
@jeffreyrichardson 4 жыл бұрын
Iman has a good heart and it reflects in her attitude towards life.
@netdaniels
@netdaniels 9 жыл бұрын
Classy.
@Mountlougallops
@Mountlougallops 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent interview and great opportunity to hear Iman’s truth.
@ColorIce09
@ColorIce09 12 жыл бұрын
iman, thank you. You are so intelligent. so beautiful. i am bi-racial myself. it's wonderful she has a line that includes are women of the world. thank u love!
@haydanjames6182
@haydanjames6182 9 жыл бұрын
My Mother is somalian and in the UK we are always called your not black then at times i described as black and i am like what? I am black and why do you need to describe my race when you can just call my name? Anyways my point is somalians we are black and black is all difrent shades, size and texture. Fully agree with her xx
@TheMolabola
@TheMolabola 6 жыл бұрын
stella rawr because DNA studies of horners are very limited, now when you look at their DNA its 100% african. Somalis share DNA and culture with other East african people like oromo, afar etc. Its so stupid and sad when people say somalis are white or arab its insulting honestly because they mean you are mixed and thats why you look like that. Somalis language and culture go way back in time and to deny it by calling them arab etc is sad.
@deesee3622
@deesee3622 6 жыл бұрын
The irony is Africa is even more diverse than other continents
@dhahirally
@dhahirally 7 жыл бұрын
i was not discovered because i was not lost lol she is funny
@lindarenaud2907
@lindarenaud2907 3 жыл бұрын
David Bowie POP???? Much more than that ROCK!!!
@marina1607
@marina1607 2 жыл бұрын
He pronounced Eman really well!!
@alisonkovacs9871
@alisonkovacs9871 2 жыл бұрын
I always felt that david was my soulmate especially when I saw him years ago at a certain famous night club seems I have been very mistaken because I soon found out the lovely iman was his soulmate rip beautiful david
@Debbie_George
@Debbie_George 11 жыл бұрын
Great interview
@matty74123
@matty74123 8 жыл бұрын
Classy chick!
@MarleneEllis1
@MarleneEllis1 8 жыл бұрын
+Matt Todd Agreed.
@CR-yn5sy
@CR-yn5sy 3 жыл бұрын
fascinating woman, discerning she knows who she is and very clued up. Gracious as well, i like the way she expresses herself
@madalynmoth4263
@madalynmoth4263 2 жыл бұрын
“Beauty” is love, it is “giving”, it is “patience”, it is unaware of itself, & it is humble, -vanity is the opposite of beauty.
@ramatgan1
@ramatgan1 3 ай бұрын
Iman is pure class. A Somali Queen.
@cindykawasaki
@cindykawasaki 10 жыл бұрын
"the black wife of david bowie"...lol...she's so funny, articulate, intelligent, beautiful...I can see why he fell in love with her.
@champflowahbomb7630
@champflowahbomb7630 4 жыл бұрын
LOL. I rofl when she said that
@lourdesbaby964
@lourdesbaby964 11 жыл бұрын
I always say the same about Africa! Its always considered as a country,and not a continent.I always say I'm Irish,and considered just Irish by everyone,not European.So why can't people understand that there are SEPARATE COUNTRIES ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT AS IN THERE ARE IN EUROPE??? Just boils down to ignorance. Simple as that!
@princekuja
@princekuja 4 жыл бұрын
I always wondered what Storm (this is a compliment as she is a goddess/royalty) did during off seasons....Im sorry but how the f*** was she overlooked and H.B chosen? I literally see the Fox X-Men Storm when i see her--wow!
@sweetas7067
@sweetas7067 4 жыл бұрын
I agree with you Iman is worth her weight in gold, ohhhh what an amazing interview. Yeah, in the Eyes of God his Creation is Beautiful. So how does man define Beauty. Yeah it's all in the Beholder. Nice interview
@chrissierg
@chrissierg 6 жыл бұрын
she's so lovely... :)
@treintaydiez
@treintaydiez 8 жыл бұрын
grounded woman
@bernadettewilliams2361
@bernadettewilliams2361 2 жыл бұрын
I love it 😀😍❤♥
@marjoriedickinson380
@marjoriedickinson380 5 жыл бұрын
She is an inspiration to me ...
@greer8288
@greer8288 Жыл бұрын
I didn't know she was so smart
@rosemarymills1671
@rosemarymills1671 3 жыл бұрын
When was this interview? Anybody know?
@inshirahcourtney7692
@inshirahcourtney7692 5 жыл бұрын
you are a gift to woman kind thank you
@madalynmoth4263
@madalynmoth4263 2 жыл бұрын
The perfect shade of foundation for your natural skin color, is your natural skin with no foundation, it matches your natural skin color, & it expresses that vanity is not a value. I was at a grocery store yesterday and this lovely & obese African American woman could not pay her bill & was trying to make phones calls to her bank about an issue with her card not working, and no one was helping her to sit down to call her bank, they were just hoping she would leave, and to imagine some skinny rich woman buying foundation to look hotter than sickly medium-poor people with that hopeless look in their eyes.
@Ryantrev88
@Ryantrev88 4 жыл бұрын
she is stunningly beautiful n intelligent
@frantisekjanosik4186
@frantisekjanosik4186 8 жыл бұрын
FOR ME TOO...
@stacyb.mcclain5752
@stacyb.mcclain5752 6 жыл бұрын
love you ma
@kumbaturay4613
@kumbaturay4613 5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful african queen
@beproud5447
@beproud5447 3 жыл бұрын
indeed she is African queen, daughter of Nefertiti
@chingychangy2257
@chingychangy2257 4 жыл бұрын
Never understood why White modeling agencies were never challenged by Black...non White Modeling agencies????
@jennyrayman2505
@jennyrayman2505 3 жыл бұрын
She is amazing
@lucialing2566
@lucialing2566 6 жыл бұрын
smart and intelligent
@kandiceblu1
@kandiceblu1 Жыл бұрын
Love her! Wow
@user-tq1mm8gh9e
@user-tq1mm8gh9e 3 жыл бұрын
Class act!
@champflowahbomb7630
@champflowahbomb7630 4 жыл бұрын
Nuanced conversation. Rare nowadays
@Jazzbeaton
@Jazzbeaton 11 жыл бұрын
am 16 and Amen to every single thin she says
@nicoletanis3703
@nicoletanis3703 28 күн бұрын
👏👏👏
@aliciamaria2730
@aliciamaria2730 3 жыл бұрын
Not so sure...Ebony fashion fair cosmetics Eunice Johnson's created in the 1960's was to only one. Founder of Ebony fashion fair
@hilmir
@hilmir 11 жыл бұрын
what a wonderful self adjusted woman. she could have easily gotten lost in the draws and spoils of the business, tempted by the riches, but she used all of that and slowly but surely carved her own success. not to put tyra down, but i think that girl lost the plot.
@warilaetamaraye8712
@warilaetamaraye8712 2 жыл бұрын
I am a bantu woman
@princessmanghram9163
@princessmanghram9163 4 жыл бұрын
She's smart. Maybe in a better world they can keep black model's.
@Maha1J
@Maha1J 5 жыл бұрын
👍👏❤️
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