Iman Abdulmajid

Iman (born July 25, 1955 in Mogadishu, Somalia as Iman Abdulmajid) is a supermodel based in the United States.

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Born the daughter of the Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iman attended high school in Egypt and later Nairobi University in Kenya, where her parents still reside. She studied political science and was recruited as a model by American photographer Peter Beard. Relocating to the United States, she married basketball player Spencer Haywood in 1977 and their daughter, Zulekha Haywood, was born in 1978. They later separated and she is presently married to British rock star and actor, David Bowie; they have one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born August 15, 2000.

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Iman played a shapeshifter named Martia in the 1991 hit film '. She has become a citizen of the United States and currently heads a cosmetics company.

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July 25: July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining....

1955: 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar....

Mogadishu: Mogadishu (Somali: Muqdisho), a city in East Africa on the Indian Ocean, serves as the nominal capital of anarchic Somalia. Somalis also popularly call the city Hamar. Although Mogadishu obviously ranks as the largest city in Somalia, estimates of its population vary wildly about two million....