Love at First Sight
Bowie and Iman met in 1990 at a dinner party. Iman, who had just retired from modeling, was introduced to her future husband by her hairdresser. For Bowie, it was love at first sight. He said his attraction to her was “immediate and all-encompassing,” and that he couldn’t sleep due to the excitement of their first date.
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In his mind, getting married was a done deal. “I’d never gone after anything with such passion in all my life.” Iman happened to have a real and dramatic effect on the otherwise smooth Bowie. He found her “intolerably sexy.” According to Iman, he told her he was so nervous when he asked her to have “tea” with him after their first date. “He doesn’t drink tea; he never drinks tea. He had coffee,” Iman recalled of that date.