David Bowie’s widow Iman took to her Instagram account just days before her husband’s death and shared some very emotional quotes about the late music visionary and icon. The former supermodel also reposted many birthday wishes for Bowie, who turned 69 on Jan. 8, just two days before he passed away following an 18-month battle with cancer.
“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory,” read one of Iman’s quotes. She ended the posting by saying, “The struggle is real, but so is God.”
The couple met the year after Iman retired from modeling. According to Adrian Belew, a member of Bowie’s band and also his 1990 tour director, the rock superstar first laid eyes on his future wife while thumbing through a fashion magazine aboard a private plane during their tour. Belew told People magazine that Bowie looked at Iman’s photograph and said, “ I want to meet that girl. I want to meet that girl right there.”
The entertainment world’s future super couple were actually introduced to each other by Bowie’s hairdresser Teddy Antolin, who also knew that the mega-musician was yearning to meet Iman. As fate would have it, Antolin sat next to Iman at a Tony dinner and immediately asked the beauty, “Are you interested in meeting anyone? Are you single?’ And she said, “It all depends, darling!”
According to reports, Antolin then called Bowie and told him, “I found her. I found your wife!” He invited both of them to his birthday dinner in Los Angeles and from that night on, Oct. 24, 1990, they were together.
Us magazine writes that for Iman, Bowie was the real deal. Years ago, Iman gushed about meeting Bowie and how she fell for him after only knowing him for two weeks.
The beauty product entrepreneur opened up about the beloved “Space Oddity” crooner during an interview with New York magazine’s “The Cut” back in February 2011.
“His actions spoke louder than words,” she said at the time. “We were dating for two weeks and I was coming to Paris and I got to L.A. at the airport and the doors open to the plane and I come out and I see all these people taking a picture of somebody. And he was standing there, flowers in hand, no security. That was when I knew he was a keeper. He didn’t care if anyone saw.”
The couple held a fairy tale wedding in Tuscany in 1992 and welcomed daughter Alexandria (“Lexi”) in August 2000. The pair always looked very affectionate on the red carpet, but they never celebrated Valentine’s Day in public.
“We never do Valentine’s dinner, because everybody, they look,” Iman explained. “On Valentine’s, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like everybody’s going to say, ’Did they talk? Did they hold hands?’”
Aside from his love and passion for his gorgeous wife, Bowie’s contributions to the art, music and film world left a legacy that will live on forever.
Variety reports that the reason that Bowie had to change his name from Davy Jones is because there was already a British star with that name working in music, at the time a member of the mega-hit TV manufactured band the Monkees.
Said Cameron Crowe, who, before entering the world of television and film, was a reporter for Rolling Stone, “He was the most generous and exciting interview subject that I was ever allowed a lot of time with and that all came with David Bowie.”
Bowie’s albums, which impacted the African-American music scene, included “Hunky Dory,” “Low,” “Heroes,” “The Man Who Sold the World,” “Young Americans” and “Station to Station.”
Ironically, his final album, “Blackstar,” a collaboration with a jazzy quartet was released just on Jan. 8. A post on Bowie’s Facebook page simply read, “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family.”
