She Fell in Love with the Man, Not the Rock Star
Within a couple weeks, Iman was ready to start a relationship with Bowie. She said that his actions spoke louder than words. She described the time she arrived at the Los Angeles airport. The doors opened, she came out of the plane, and all these people were taking photos of somebody. And there he was, standing with flowers in hand, without any security.
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“That was when I knew he was a keeper,” she stated. “He didn’t care if anybody saw.” The two married two years after their first date. They made their first public appearance together in 1990 at an AIDS benefit. But still, Iman was hesitant about diving into marriage with a rock star. In 2004, she told The Guardian that she “fell in love with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie. Bowie is just a persona. He’s a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.”