Why Iman Doesn't Want People to Call David Bowie Her "Late Husband"

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E! Remembers the Late David Bowie successful 1993

There are nary changes for the emotion Iman has for David Bowie.

The supermodel shared that she thinks astir the superstar "all the time," including "every time and each minute" since his passing successful 2016. Through a acquisition fixed to her by a friend, Iman carries a memento that keeps David adjacent to her heart.

"I person a necklace that I'm wearing nether present that has his sanction connected it," Iman told Hoda Kotb connected SiriusXM TODAY Show Radio connected Oct. 5. "I've worn it since that archetypal week aft David passed away."

Bowie, who died astatine property 69 from liver cancer, married Iman successful 1992, and to her, he'll "always be" her husband.

"People accidental 'your precocious husband' and I said 'don't telephone my hubby late,'" she said. "He's not my 'late husband.' He's my hubby and he'll ever be."

She added, "If you're lucky, you'll acquisition thing similar that. It's luck and I was lucky," to which Hoda asked Iman if she believed gathering David was luck.

Iman answered, "Destiny, definitely. How can destiny take 1 and not take different person?"

One motion Iman saw that indicated David could beryllium the love of her life was successful the similarities helium shared with her dad. Iman said that similar her father, David was "very kind, considerate, paid attraction to everything." She said that erstwhile David spoke to you, it felt similar determination was "nobody other successful the room."

Though she was hesitant to day a musician, Iman said that David "wooed me properly" done romanticist gestures similar sending flowers to her Paris edifice country oregon gathering her astatine the gross of her level astatine the airdrome erstwhile she landed from a Paris trip.

There was 1 enactment of kindness successful peculiar that Iman said "really did maine in."

Iman continued, "We're walking down the street, and my shoelaces came undone and helium got connected his knees to necktie the shoes."

The significance? It felt similar a infinitesimal she had experienced successful her childhood.

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"And erstwhile helium got connected his knees, my dada utilized to bash that. He would get connected his knees to necktie my shoelaces," Iman said. "I was like, 'That's David Bowie tying my shoelaces.' This is simply a yes. This is simply a yes."

Six years aft David's death, Iman said she's open to love but is unsure if she's "open to that benignant of relationship" that she had with the "Heroes" singer.

The manner icon shared that she sees David successful the sunsets helium loved truthful much; successful the euphony and pictures she has astatine home; and successful their daughter, Lexi Jones, 22.

As to what she's inactive wishing for, Iman has 1 request.

"If determination is an afterlife, I'd similar to spot my hubby again," she said. "That's the 1 I want."

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