Post # 8 : 2 Blogs

Positive Blog :
Conversely, Iman Abdulmajid has a great compassion for humanity and she wants to dedicate herself to improving the lot of others. She is better when dealing with the trials of the many than the trouble of a single person. Iman is more capable of working on the grand scale, addressing the needs of society, than on a one-to-one basis.
Abdulmajid is kind and sympathetic, helpful and compassionate. Behind the controlled and calm facade, she is sensitive, vulnerable and emotional.
Iman Abdulmajid has excellent taste. There is a good deal of artistic talent in her that shows in her home environment and her clothing.
http://www.celebrities-galore.com/celebrities/iman-abdulmajid/personality-number/



Negative Blog:
In his autobiography The Rise, The Fall, The Recovery, Haywood says that for the last two years of their nine-year marriage they didn't make love. He also accused Iman of turning him into a cocaine junkie and an alcoholic, destroying his sporting career. "She introduced me to all the right people, who were all the wrong people. Everywhere we went drugs were passed around like candies." Haywood even said Iman trapped him into marriage by getting pregnant "so she could stay in America." "She said she was having an abortion, and I did the right thing," says Haywood, who played with the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers. Iman, said: "I tried, and indeed, continue to try to be a good mother."
http://darkbohemiia.blogspot.com/2009/04/iman-abdulmajid.html
In Iman's Defense:

Post # 6 : Inspirational To Me Because...

Iman is inspirational to me because she is different than many other models . She has a man's name and is Muslim which can make others prejudice to what she is actually about. Also, Iman concentrated on school and never failed to remember where she came from . She was also a hard worker and put herself through school with limited help.

Post # 5 : Life Changer

By 1973, Iman was 18 and a student of political science at the University of Nairobi. She also worked as a translator to help pay her tuition costs. Photographer Peter Beard, a well-known figure in the fashion world, saw her one day on a street in Nairobi and was captivated by her long neck, high forehead, and gamine grace. He began following her, and finally approached her to ask if she had ever been photographed. "The first thing I thought was he wanted me for prostitution of naked pictures," Iman recalled laughingly about that day in an interview with Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service writer Roy H. Campbell. "I had never seen Vogue. I didn't read fashion magazines, I read Time and Newsweek. " But when Beard offered to pay her, she reconsidered, and asked for the amount due to the college for her tuition, $8,000; Beard agreed.

Beard shot rolls of film of Iman that day, and took them back to New York with him. He then spent four months trying to convince his "discovery" to move to New York and begin modeling professionally. He even leaked items to the press about her fantastical beauty, and exaggeratedly claimed that she was descended from African royalty and that he had "found" her in the jungle. Another story alleged that she was a goat herder in the desert. When Iman finally capitulated and flew to New York, dozens of photographers greeted her at the airport. A press conference that day initiated her into the vagaries of celebrity and fame. "I was very surprised and offended that they could be so gullible to believe that all Africans come out of the jungle," Iman told Campbell. "Somalia is a desert. I had never even seen a jungle. And I was even more insulted when they started asking the questions and talking only to Peter because they thought I did not speak English and I could speak English and five [other] languages."

Post # 4 : Iman's Adversity

Iman's mother, a gynecologist, gave her daughter a man's name when she arrived into the world with the hope that this would better prepare her for the challenges she would face as a female in Muslim East Africa. Her parents were decidedly progressive: Iman's father was a diplomat stationed in Tanzania, and under the law he could have had multiple wives, but chose to keep just one. The parents agreed that their daughter should be sent to a private Catholic school for girls, which was considered more progressive than the standard Islamic education available to young females in the 1960s. There, Iman thrived. "I was a very nerdy child," she told husband David Bowie when he interviewed her for Interview in 1994. "I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious."

Post # 3 : Pictures and Videos

Post # 2: Basic Background

Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid was born in Mogadishu, Somalia on July 25, 1955. Her parents are Marian and Mohamed Abdulmajid. Her father, Mohamed Abdulmajid, is a former Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Iman has three siblings. Two brothers who are Elyas and Feisal and one sister named Nadia. Iman has brown hair and brown eyes. She attended high school in Egypt and later lived in Kenya, where she studied political science at Nairobi. Iman is Muslim, and fluent in Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Somali.

Post # 1 : Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_(model)
• http://www.biography.com/articles/Iman-9542466
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0408081/bio
• http://www.who2.com/iman.html
• http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/iman.html
• http://www.i-iman.com/whats/bio.html
• http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/faq.htm
• http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=415&lang=en
• http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/Iman-Abdulmajid/biography/
• http://www.celebrities-galore.com/celebrities/iman-abdulmajid/personality-number/
• http://www.freebase.com/view/en/iman_abdulmajid/-/base/popstra
• http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/iman_abdulmajid/photos/
• http://darkbohemiia.blogspot.com/2009/04/iman-abdulmajid.html