Iman Abdulmajid is the first Muslim woman in the world to become a top model

This native of Somalia became the first Muslim model, making a real revolution in the fashion world. The dark-skinned beauty, beautiful looking at her sixty, has a magnificent figure and a face without wrinkles.

Iman - "faith in God"

Iman Abdulmajid, bearing a traditional male name, was born in 1955 in the family of a diplomat and a doctor. In Somalia, divided into colonies, military clashes took place, and the lives of local residents were never calm.

Her mother decided to protect her child from various problems of the country, dreaming of a better share for her daughter and calling her a non-feminine name, which means "faith in God." How to know if this affected the fate of the girl or something else, but Iman has achieved incredible success and popularity all over the world.

Carier start

After the military coup, the family moves to Kenya, and it is there that the girl meets a famous photographer, struck by her exquisite beauty. He offers her to work as a model, but a Somalian woman with a chocolate color, who has not read a single fashion magazine, has long doubted.

After filming the enthusiastic photographer for more than four months persuaded Iman Abdulmajid to move to America, in order to closely engage in the career of the model. At the same time, he "warmed up" the rumors of an amazing diva, supposedly born in a royal family and accidentally met in the jungles of Africa.

Rumors and their dethronement

When the girl flew to the US, she was met by an army of journalists who dream of sensational material. Outraged by rumors, Iman held a press conference in which she spoke harshly about the naivete of Americans who believe that all Africans live in the jungle. She was offended by the assumption that she needed an interpreter, although in fact she owned five languages.

The Revolution in the Fashion World

Only a few months passed, and the dark-skinned model Iman Abdulmajid won the love of designers and viewers, appearing on the podium and the covers of glossy magazines. For those times it was a real breakthrough, because before, no Muslim woman worked with fashion houses and did not participate in advertising campaigns.

After the magnificent shooting in Vogue, the model becomes a real star, and her grace and grace were appreciated by all the readers of the most famous magazine about style and beauty.

Versatile personality

The most popular designers lined up to invite a young diva to work. The charming Iman Abdulmajid, whose secrets of beauty are discussed even today, even becomes the face of the house of Yves Saint Laurent and signs a multi-million dollar contract with the cosmetic brand Revlon.

She is invited to appear in a movie, she is called a TV presenter, and later the "black pearl" launches her own line of cosmetics designed for women with dark skin color.

Car Accident

In 1983, there was a tragedy that could take the life of a budding model. Suffered in a car accident, the girl was terribly worried that her face is badly mutilated, and further work on the podium is under big question. Not wishing to give up, Iman Abdulmajid decided on a series of plastic surgeries. Then she remembered that period as years of stress and pain, but in the end her face got the same smoothness, there was not even a hint of the tragedy that had happened.

Six years later, the top model, earning fabulous fees, decides to leave the business and take care of the needy. She is engaged in charity and brings humanitarian aid to her native country.

Iman Abdulmajid and her children

The personal life that opened a new era in the fashionable world of the star was saturated, and from the first marriage, Iman has a daughter Zuleiha.

But her most important love was rock musician David Bowie, "unevenly breathing" to dark-skinned girls. The family union, which did not give reasons for scandals and appearing on the pages of the yellow press, was marred only by one - the family had no common children. However, eight years later the desperate Iman had a daughter, whom happy parents named Alexander Zara Jones. Also in the family was brought up a son from the first marriage of a musician - Duncan.

Woe to the family

Unfortunately, in January 2016, the great Bowie passed away, and Iman Abdulmajid was left alone. The woman was so hard to survive the loss that almost a month did not appear in public, and now she was hit by a new misfortune - her beloved mother died.

The day before the death of her husband, a woman shared with her subscribers in the social network a quote from a French writer: "The value of something is not known until it becomes a memory."