David Bowie spoke of his immediate attraction to Iman upon meeting in her 1990 in an exclusive interview with Hello Magazine in 2000. "My attraction to her was immediate and all-encompassing," Bowie told Hello. "I couldn't sleep for the excitement of our first date."
Iman also experienced this immediate affection for Bowie — though not for his stage persona. "I fell in love with David Jones," Iman told The Guardian in 2014. "I did not fall in love with David Bowie. Bowie is just a persona."
For 23 years, the couple maintained a private and incredibly loving relationship, along with their daughter Lexi, now 20 years old, in New York City.
Though Bowie died five years ago, Iman is insistent that she will never remarry or love anyone the way she loved her late husband. In fact, when speaking with Harper's Bazaar recently, Iman admitted that her daughter had asked if she would ever remarry — and Iman emphatically declared that she would never marry another soul.
"You know, this was my true love," Iman told Harper's Bazaar. "My daughter once asked me if I would ever marry again and I said, 'never.' It was a beautiful, ordinary life and that was what was great about it. We could live in New York, pick up our daughter from school, walk everywhere... You know, I wish we had had more years."
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